The United States Department of Justice is investigating the Kansas City, Missouri, fire department after it was accused of racial discrimination.
from preferred stations, hampered their ability to be promoted and often left them ostracized in majority-white stations.
Members of the Kansas City Fire Department Rescue Team travel from house-to-house to look for survivors on May 23, 2011, in Joplin, Missouri. The department is being investigated after being accused of racism.In one incident, a white fire cadet"joked" that his favorite knot was a noose and placed it around the neck of Black classmate at the fire academy two years ago. The city tried to fire him, but he resigned after intervention from the firefighters union.
The paper reported that only 14% of fire department employees are Black, in a city where 30% of residents are Black. Its stations remain unofficially segregated by longstanding promotion practices. At some busy inner-city fire stations, there hasn’t been a Black captain in at least a decade.
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