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The BBC's undercover reporter repeatedly filmed officers revelling in the use of force, revealing a culture of confidence and trust that colleagues would not blow the whistle on them.

They urged him to appeal, to blow the whistle on the whole plot.

It “would safeguard the rights of federal employees who blow the whistle on violations of laws, including by their supervisors,” he said.

“This appears to be another attempt by the Senator to retaliate against Mr. Condit and cause him and his family further harm for daring to stand up to her and blow the whistle on the Senator’s misconduct,” wrote Arya Rhodes, an attorney on the case.

But instead, Grasso claims, she was passed over as “officer in charge” when her superiors learned she had agreed to help blow the whistle on what she and others saw as a deep-seated culture of violence, secrecy and cover-ups.