On Aug. 28, the town of Rivesville, West Virginia, moved to dismiss a discrimination lawsuit filed by former police chief Lamon Simpson on Aug. 28 in Marion Circuit Court.
According to the Times West Virginian, Simpson filed his lawsuit on June 24, alleging that he was wrongfully terminated and discriminated against while employed by the town’s police department. Simpson’s representation, Sean Cook, told the outlet that his client faced several incidents of racially based harassment as well as inequitable treatment. One of those times included a phone call he received in which a caller inquired if he was the “n-word chief.”
In the suit, Simpson alleged that the mayor of the town at that time, Barbara Beatty, told him if he couldn’t handle being called the n-word he needed to think about leaving his position.
The town’s response to the claims in Simpson’s lawsuit appears to be a point-by-point rebuttal and a call for the court to completely dismiss Count III of…
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