On Thursday, Stephanie Cockrell, a 13-year veteran of the San Diego Police Department, announced her intent to file a lawsuit against the department for sexual harassment, retaliation and discrimination.

Cockrell stood alongside her attorney, Emilia Arutunian, who is with the firm Antonyan Miranda, to announce that they have already filed complaints with the state’s civil rights department against SDPD, paving the way for a lawsuit.

In the Sept. 15 complaint, it reads that Cockrell “constantly received outstanding performance reviews,” but, despite that, she was “subjected to repeated and ongoing sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation and a failure by the department to provide protection from such misconduct.”

The harassment stemmed, according to the complaint, from an incident

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