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MCKEESPORT, Pa. (KDKA) — A new lawsuit claims police targeted Black residents during a manhunt for a suspect wanted in the shooting of a McKeesport police officer in 2020. The ACLU of Pennsylvania claims the police department, the city of McKeesport and Allegheny County police violated residents’ Fourth Amendment rights. The complaint alleges police officers […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — A new federal lawsuit has been filed alleging there are two more “Brave Cave” locations. Carrie Mealey, 68, and Houston Lawrence are plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed in U.S. Middle District Court. Defendants include the City of Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy Paul, East Baton Rouge Sheriff Sid […]
Receive free Tesla Inc updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Tesla Inc news every morning. Elon Musk’s electric-car maker Tesla on Thursday was sued by a US civil rights agency, which accused the company of tolerating “open hostility and racism” directed at black employees. The Equal Employment Opportunity […]
Images are unavailable offline. Keith Wright, second left, is flanked by his daughters Kelsey Smith-Wright, left, and Jodi Smith-Wright, and CRARR executive director Fo Niemi, right, at a news conference in Montreal on Aug. 29. Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press A Black Montreal family alleges they were victims of racial profiling by Air Canada when they […]
WASHINGTON, Aug 24 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department sued Elon Musk-owned rocket and satellite company SpaceX on Thursday for allegedly discriminating against asylum recipients and refugees in hiring. “The lawsuit alleges that, from at least September 2018 to May 2022, SpaceX routinely discouraged asylees and refugees from applying and refused to hire or consider […]
The Aurora Police Department is facing another lawsuit alleging excessive force against a Black man, this time during a 2021 traffic stop that ended in the man being dragged out of his car, tased and arrested. Antonio Johnson, 43, was stopped on Aug. 22, 2021, for incorrectly displaying a temporary license plate, according to the […]
After months of board division and allegations of harassment, Laural O’Rourke has submitted her resignation from the Eugene School District 4J Board of Directors. On Saturday afternoon, O’Rourke sent her resignation via email to current board members, 4J Superintendent Andy Dey and other 4J administrators. The email was titled, “A Black Woman’s Resignation from the […]
CNN — A Mississippi civil rights attorney alleges she was wrongfully arrested over the weekend and believes it may have been in retaliation for her advocacy work in the city of Lexington highlighting claims of discrimination by police against its Black residents. Civil rights attorney Jill Jefferson was arrested Saturday by the Lexington Police . […]
The suit alleges PulteGroup discriminated against three former Black employees. May 20, 2023, 9:32 PM ET • 5 min read A lawsuit alleges a homebuilding company created a hostile working environment and discriminated against three Black employees, one of whom reportedly attended an “all hands training” meeting where a noose was displayed. The complaint was […]
A Barclays banker, one of three men of Cameroonian background to sue the bank in a joint London claim, alleges he has felt pigeonholed as an “aggressive Black man” in a lawsuit seeking almost 15 million pounds ($19 million) in damages. Christian Abanda Bella, 41, is the last to be cross examined in the case, […]