White Cop Who Finds He Has African Ancestry Sues City, Chief Over Racism
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Michigan police officer Cleon Brown is suing his chief and the city after a chain of events that began when he took a genetic test through Ancestry.com in December and was surprised to learn he could trace 18 percent of his DNA to regions in Africa.
Brown was also surprised by how his fellow officers in the Hastings Police Department reacted to the news.
He said the police chief called him “Kunte,” after the character in Alex Haley’s novel “Roots: The Saga of an American Family,” while other officers whispered “Black lives matter” when they walked past, according to MLive.com.
Even the mayor, who has since retired, made cracks, according to Brown’s attorney, Karie Boylan, who has filed a lawsuit on Brown’s behalf.
“There was an instance where my client was talking to the mayor, and the mayor ― upon learning that my client was 18 percent African-American ― proceeded to tell him a racist joke” using a racial slur, she told CBS Detroit.
Brown said the Christmas tree in the police department lobby was decorated with Santa figurines named after each officer on the force. Brown’s Santa was black with “18 percent” written on the beard, according to WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids.
Brown has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Hastings, the town’s police chief, its deputy chief, a sergeant and the city manager.
“These are law enforcement officers,” Boylan told the station. “These are people who are supposed to understand cultural sensitivities.”
Boylan said Brown has been ostracized and subjected to a hostile working environment. He is suing for $500,000.
“I don’t see that any officer that has been retaliating against him is going to come to Cleon’s aid,” she told WOOD-TV.
She also wants Hastings to provide better racial sensitivity training for officers.
The City of Hastings said Brown is the one who kept bringing up his ancestry and made inappropriate jokes about it, according to WOOD-TV.
The city acknowledged the “Black Santa” incident in a statement but said that the officer responsible apologized to Brown.
The statement said Brown told Hastings Police Chief Jeff Pratt that he “was not upset and that he was proud of his African heritage.” The city also claimed the chief told the other officers that no other jokes about Brown’s heritage would be tolerated.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michigan-white-officer-african-ancestry-lawuit_us_59121a90e4b05e1ca202840e
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RiSbWZDT_8
Brown was also surprised by how his fellow officers in the Hastings Police Department reacted to the news.
He said the police chief called him “Kunte,” after the character in Alex Haley’s novel “Roots: The Saga of an American Family,” while other officers whispered “Black lives matter” when they walked past, according to MLive.com.
Even the mayor, who has since retired, made cracks, according to Brown’s attorney, Karie Boylan, who has filed a lawsuit on Brown’s behalf.
“There was an instance where my client was talking to the mayor, and the mayor ― upon learning that my client was 18 percent African-American ― proceeded to tell him a racist joke” using a racial slur, she told CBS Detroit.
Brown said the Christmas tree in the police department lobby was decorated with Santa figurines named after each officer on the force. Brown’s Santa was black with “18 percent” written on the beard, according to WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids.
Brown has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Hastings, the town’s police chief, its deputy chief, a sergeant and the city manager.
“These are law enforcement officers,” Boylan told the station. “These are people who are supposed to understand cultural sensitivities.”
Boylan said Brown has been ostracized and subjected to a hostile working environment. He is suing for $500,000.
“I don’t see that any officer that has been retaliating against him is going to come to Cleon’s aid,” she told WOOD-TV.
She also wants Hastings to provide better racial sensitivity training for officers.
The City of Hastings said Brown is the one who kept bringing up his ancestry and made inappropriate jokes about it, according to WOOD-TV.
The city acknowledged the “Black Santa” incident in a statement but said that the officer responsible apologized to Brown.
The statement said Brown told Hastings Police Chief Jeff Pratt that he “was not upset and that he was proud of his African heritage.” The city also claimed the chief told the other officers that no other jokes about Brown’s heritage would be tolerated.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michigan-white-officer-african-ancestry-lawuit_us_59121a90e4b05e1ca202840e
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RiSbWZDT_8 Comments
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Undefeatable wrote: »Michigan police officer Cleon Brown is suing his chief and the city after a chain of events that began when he took a genetic test through Ancestry.com in December and was surprised to learn he could trace 18 percent of his DNA to regions in Africa.
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A cac named Cleon Brown??? and he needed proof he was a ? hell the proof was in his niggardry name
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They have no ? shame. They stay trying to clown us and come up off someone else.
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A lot of whites got african dna since the moors traveled and smashed Europeans but they won't acknowledge it
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This cracka got his ? moment
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Dude spent a micro fraction of his life being black and already hate you white people
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Who remembers this Cleon?
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Ahaha he can't stand himself
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VulcanRaven wrote: »A lot of whites got african dna since the moors traveled and smashed Europeans but they won't acknowledge it
Nah, for him, it doesn't even go that far back. He's got an 18% admixture. Each grandparent potentially contributes about 25% of your DNA. Each great grandparent contributes around 12.5%. So he's basically got a great grandparent + a mixed great grandparent worth of black in him.
And this should shut those people up that thing the "one drop rule" is defunct. Those cops basically showed that all you need is a little bit of black in you and that's all it takes for some to let their racist flags fly. This is clearly a white dude, but he's got a couple drops and that's somehow cause for mistreatment. -
Not surprised. Hastings is in the middle of nowhere surrounded by Lansing, Grand Rapids, Battle Creek, and K-Zoo. Honkeyville if there ever was a place.
$100 says the cop used to ? racists jokes and called Black folks "? " himself. -
He about to exploit everything...
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He about to exploit everything...
He about to get paid too. His whiteness is about to exploit the fact that he has a little bit of ? dna in his genes -
White privilege about to ? on us again.
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They self esteem aint ?
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The Lonious Monk wrote: »VulcanRaven wrote: »A lot of whites got african dna since the moors traveled and smashed Europeans but they won't acknowledge it
Nah, for him, it doesn't even go that far back. He's got an 18% admixture. Each grandparent potentially contributes about 25% of your DNA. Each great grandparent contributes around 12.5%. So he's basically got a great grandparent + a mixed great grandparent worth of black in him.
And this should shut those people up that thing the "one drop rule" is defunct. Those cops basically showed that all you need is a little bit of black in you and that's all it takes for some to let their racist flags fly. This is clearly a white dude, but he's got a couple drops and that's somehow cause for mistreatment.
Usually, people say that the one-drop rule is a bad idea, not that it is "defunct."
Also, this doesn't prove that blacks with more "black blood" aren't treated worse than people who are less black. -
A cac named Cleon Brown??? and he needed proof he was a ? hell the proof was in his niggardry name
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Undefeatable wrote: »The Lonious Monk wrote: »VulcanRaven wrote: »A lot of whites got african dna since the moors traveled and smashed Europeans but they won't acknowledge it
Nah, for him, it doesn't even go that far back. He's got an 18% admixture. Each grandparent potentially contributes about 25% of your DNA. Each great grandparent contributes around 12.5%. So he's basically got a great grandparent + a mixed great grandparent worth of black in him.
And this should shut those people up that thing the "one drop rule" is defunct. Those cops basically showed that all you need is a little bit of black in you and that's all it takes for some to let their racist flags fly. This is clearly a white dude, but he's got a couple drops and that's somehow cause for mistreatment.
Usually, people say that the one-drop rule is a bad idea, not that it is "defunct."
Also, this doesn't prove that blacks with more "black blood" aren't treated worse than people who are less black.
No, people on here claim that the one-drop rule doesn't even exist anymore. They say it to discredit any struggle that mixed people may face.
And no one has ever said that blacks with more "black blood" aren't treated worse. Of course full black people have been treated worse over years than mixed people. -
Snitch-ass ? , I wish they could've made a Dead Presidents sequel and showed Anthony whooping his ass in prison lol.Who remembers this Cleon? -
With a name like that you should've known you were black! He's gonna lose that case because he's black watch!
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? that cracka ass ?
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He said the police chief called him “Kunte,” after the character in Alex Haley’s novel “Roots: The Saga of an American Family,” while other officers whispered “Black lives matter” when they walked past, according to MLive.com
yoooo the bolded is hilarious. that ? probably infuriated him. made him turn red and ? -
That cop the grown version of this kid
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BiblicalAtheist wrote: »
He's Vin Diesel black
https://youtu.be/ddMpIqUlMtY
