A state trooper fired for allegedly recording a lesbian encounter and sharing it with her co-workers has filed a lawsuit alleging she was the victim of “rampant and uncontrolled sexual harassment” throughout her police career.
Ivana Williams, 37, claims the harassment began from the time she began her training until the day she was fired.
In her lawsuit, obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com, Williams catalogs a series of alleged harassment and discrimination that she claims she suffered even before joining the Mississippi Highway Patrol ‘boys club’ in 2018.
Among her accusations, she says that when she was a cadet, her instructors told her to jump up and down so that the male cadets could ogle her breasts and buttocks.
They also “separated her from all the other cadets and then moaned in a sexual manner to show their approval” of her appearance, she claims.
Former Mississippi State Trooper Ivana Williams is suing police over allegations that she was the victim of “rampant and uncontrolled sexual harassment” throughout her career.
Brunette Brynne Fisackerly is suing Williams alleging that he engaged in sexual acts with her when she was so drunk she could barely remember the night.
They made sexually suggestive comments to her, patted her buttocks in front of male cadets and soldiers and “forced her to lie down and smile at them in a sexual manner,” she alleges.
Things only got worse when he graduated and started working with the highway patrol, he claims in the lawsuit filed in federal court in the Southern District of Mississippi.
She says she was repeatedly denied entry into the Special Operations Group despite being fully qualified, and eventually stopped trying after one member of the group demanded, “Let me see your tits, and another invited her to his hotel room.” .
He then set out to join the Highway Patrol motorcycle team, but was told he couldn’t because it was strictly a “boys club.”
Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com after her sacking last year, Williams insisted she would never have been sacked if she were a man.
“It’s that simple,” he said. ‘I worked with 95 per cent men and I know all their dirty little secrets.
“Many of them have fared much worse and have received nothing more than a slap on the wrist. But I don’t need to bring all that to light to clear my name.
A DailyMail.com investigation last year uncovered a litany of outrageous behavior allegedly perpetrated by male MHP officers.
Williams, 37, was fired from the Mississippi Highway Patrol for recording a lesbian game and sending the video to her colleagues.
Former state trooper claims state troopers told her motorcycle unit was strictly a ‘boys club’
She claims the harassment began during her training, when her instructors told her to jump up and down so that male cadets could ogle her breasts and buttocks.
They include a master sergeant who recorded himself having sex with a woman on a state-issued cellphone, a case cited by Williams in his dismissal appeal.
Another recorded his wife having sex with another man, and a third was caught in a sexual act with a truck driver while he was on duty.
Williams, the owner of this gun store in Brandon, Mississippi, appealed her firing, saying that if she were a man she wouldn’t have been fired.
A source told DailyMail.com that there are multiple occasions where police officers allegedly received and shared nude photographs.
Williams was fired last January for showing coworkers the tape of her sexual encounter with Highway Patrol administrative assistant Brynne Fisackerly.
Fisackerly, 39, a divorced mother of two, is suing her in federal court alleging that Williams engaged in sexual acts with her when she was so drunk she could barely remember the night, that he videotaped her without her consent and that He shared the footage with other soldiers.
An internal investigation following her appointment in the Fisackerly complaint saw Williams accused of viewing pornography on her state-issued phone and having an open can of beer in her patrol car.
For his part, Williams, who has more than 100,000 followers on social media, has strongly denied all accusations against him.
She also claims that her superiors made sexually suggestive comments to her, patted her buttocks in front of male cadets and soldiers, and “forced her to lie down and smile at them in a sexual manner.”
Williams, photographed alongside a recruiting driver at her local high school, alleges the harassment continued until the day she was fired.
Williams described the video that led to his firing as “consensual” and said he had shared it with a person with the consent of the other participant.
She characterized the sex tape as consensual and claimed that she did not distribute the footage as a defendant, but rather shared it only with her then-lover, a married former officer, and only with the permission of her accuser. She says it has since been deleted from her phone.
According to Williams, who appealed his firing in February, his firing was retaliatory in response to a complaint he filed with the Department of Public Safety in January.
She filed her complaint after being transferred from Rankin County, where she lives, to Bolivar County. The move that occurred after Fisackerly filed her lawsuit was made without explanation and placed the single mother of four 100 miles from her home and children.
Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com when the sex tape story first broke, Williams said: “What I’ve been accused of is simply not true.” There was no attack and if there is a video circulating, where is it?
“I know the truth and I am confident that when this goes to court, I will win and get my job back.”
He said he could not comment further beyond describing the situation as “she said/she said.”
Fisackerly is now suing Williams in federal court for $11 million in damages.
In addition to her recently filed sexual harassment case, Williams has countersued, demanding $20 million for the damage she claims the allegations have caused to her reputation and business relationships.