A white police officer in Michigan who says he was teased by fellow officers when he told them that he was part black will receive a $65,000 settlement, reports CNN.
Sgt. Cleon Brown, a 19-year veteran with the police department in Hastings, Michigan, said he claims that his colleagues began to taunt him in 2016 after he took a genetic test through Ancestry.com and learned that he was 18% African.
CNN reports, his colleagues at the police department began whispering “Black Lives Matter” while pumping their fists as they walked past him and his police chief referred to him as “Kunta.”
Brown feels like they were making fun of him as to say that his heritage is nothing to be proud of, reports CNN.
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