The locker room conversation about breasts

A now-retired female deputy chief told her attorney, former acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson, that the mayor approached her in the police department locker room while she was changing, asked whether her own breasts were too big, and then commented on the deputy chief’s. The two women did not know each other personally. Thompson said the encounter left her uncomfortable and factored into her decision to retire. Finding Six of the report substantiated “offensive and inappropriate behavior with two female City employees.” One conversation, on January 14, was corroborated by a text the employee sent a friend the same day. The other, in the police gym locker room in February, investigators called “more of a close call” but “more likely than not.” The mayor denies discussing her breasts; she told investigators the women were talking about how bodies change with age.

It wasn’t like bawdy humor with a friend you have a very close relationship with.