Black Architect of the Capitol employee called N-word, found a noose during an assignment, lawsuit alleges – By Chris Marquette (Roll Call) / Feb 19 2020
Anthony Green alleges the agency failed in addressing discrimination he faced
Anthony Green, a black maintenance mechanic working at the Architect of the Capitol (AOC), found a noose hanging from equipment he was assigned to inspect and was called the N-word by white colleagues, Green alleges in a lawsuit he filed against the agency in November.
Green alleges that since he was hired in 2015 to work in the AOC’s Capitol Power Plant Jurisdiction, he was treated differently based on his race, and called “lazy” in addition to the racial slur. When Green complained about the hostile conduct, the AOC failed to take swift action and retaliated against him, according to the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Victor Shaw, Green’s supervisor, along with three other mechanics — Quinton Coleman, Dana Spencer and David Barletta — referred to Green as the N-word when speaking to other AOC employees, the lawsuit alleges. Shaw, Spencer and Barletta are white. Coleman is black.
The lawsuit accuses Shaw, Coleman, Spencer and Barletta of saying Green and another black mechanic were lazy, worked slower than the other mechanics and produced lesser-quality work.
Green’s lawsuit describes an incident in 2017 where he says Barletta intentionally closed a freight elevator door on his head. The injury caused him to miss a week of work, and even though a supervisor witnessed the incident, the suit alleges, no action was taken against Barletta and the event was not recorded as a workplace injury.
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