LOS ANGELES (AP) – Los Angeles will pay $50,000 to settle a federal discrimination lawsuit filed by a police detective who lost his job after making racially charged comments in a training session.

The city signed a settlement agreement Friday. But Frank Lyga won’t get his job back.

The 28-year veteran retired as he was about to be fired after an audio recording surfaced in 2014 of his comments.

Lyga, who’s white, spoke of fatally shooting a black fellow officer during an off-duty confrontation and telling the family’s lawyer he could happily have killed – quote – “a whole truckload of them.”

But he denied that was a racial reference.

Lyga’s suit said a black officer wouldn’t have been fired for the remark and Lyga faced termination because of pressure from the African-American community.

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