Rebel flag T-shirt, racial epithets alleged at State Highway Administration (MD)
Michael Dresser
The Baltimore Sun
Maryland officials are poised to pay $75,000 to an African-American state highway worker who says he was harassed, assaulted and called racial epithets by a boss who wore a Confederate flag T-shirt in the workplace.
The action would resolve a lawsuit brought in 2013 by Jeffrey W. Mills, a maintenance worker in the State Highway Administration's shop in Laurel. The settlement is scheduled to be voted on Wednesday by the state Board of Public Works, which has the final say on such agreements.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, alleges that in April 2013, a white team leader in Mills' shop, Guy David Colburn, directed racial epithets at Mills, who is African-American, while Colburn was wearing a T-shirt depicting the Confederate battle flag. The lawsuit says the supervisor repeatedly called Mills "Tarzan," which Mills understood to be a racially derogatory reference.
Mills reported Colburn to a district manager but was subjected to "increased harassment and threats" when Colburn wasn't found guilty of any wrongdoing. Co-workers called Mills a snitch and a rat, the suit says ...
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