Black Georgia couple sues former neighbor, city, over racist slurs, threats
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Saturday, September 5, 2015, 3:26 PM
... Roy Turner Jr., the white neighbor who worked for the city's solid waste department, verbally assaulted them whenever he saw them outside, including sometimes while he was working, the couple contends. He also sometimes walked and made sounds like an ape when he saw them, the Bonds family asserts in a lawsuit filed last month against Turner and the city.
Turner told The Associated Press ... "I said 'porch monkey' ... That's just a joking-around term" ...
The lawsuit details more than a dozen specific instances of alleged harassment. Gregory Bonds said the final straw came in May: The family had company and Turner came out into his yard with a baseball bat and began hitting a tree aggressively and yelling more slurs. The family moved the next month ...
"It's specifically a separate section of the statute that was designed to apply to people who were not housing providers — neighbors and others," Schwemm said ...
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