The city of Philadelphia is facing a lawsuit from five police officers who claim they were denied promotions because of their race and sex.
The plaintiffs include Lieutenants Christopher Bloom, Kollin Berg and Joseph Musumeci, as well as Sergeants Marc Monachello and LeRoy Ziegler Jr., all of whom are White males. The class-action lawsuit alleges that in November 2025, the five officers were denied promotions because of their race and sex due to the city’s “Rule of Five” policy.
“The City of Philadelphia has adopted a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) promotion policy that it calls the ‘Rule of Five,’ which was instituted for the express purpose of increasing the representation of minority and female candidates in supervisory positions within the City of Philadelphia at the expense of white men,” the lawsuit reads…