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$4 million verdict for LAPD captain over fake nude photo shared by cops

Lillian Carranza, commanding officer of the Los Angeles Police Department's Commercial Crimes Division, during a news conference at LAPD headquarters on Oct. 2, 2018, in Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES — A jury awarded a female Los Angeles police captain $4 million in damages Friday in her sexual harassment lawsuit against the city over a nude photograph that was doctored to look like her and shared around the department.

In reaching the verdict after a day of deliberations, the Los Angeles County Superior Court jurors found that the sharing of the photo of a bare-breasted woman whose face was digitally altered to resemble Capt. Lillian Carranza. a 33-year department veteran, created a hostile work environment. They agreed with her lawyers that the top brass

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