A jury has ruled in favor of three former Mocksville police officers in their lawsuit against the police department. The officers maintained they were fired from their jobs for raising concerns about how the department was run.
The jury awarded a total of $4.1 million in damages to the officers, Major Ken Hunter, Lt. Rick Donathan and Detective Jerry Medlin.
The Winston-Salem Journal reports all three were fired on the same day in December of 2011.
The lawsuit claimed the police chief and town manager fired them because they reported allegations of corruption in the department to state officials.
The suit was brought against Mocksville Police Chief Robert Cook, Town Manager Christine Bralley and the town of Mocksville.
Cook and Bralley insisted that the officers were fired because of poor job performance.
The verdict came at the end of an eight-day trial in U.S. District Court in Winston-Salem.
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