Racist, offensive behavior 'rife' in Hampton Roads Homeland Security office, EEOC rules

[TexasTowelie]

The Department of Homeland Security's investigative office in Hampton Roads is "clearly rife with offensive and racially hostile behavior," the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a decision obtained by The Virginian-Pilot.

The finding was based, among other things, on a supervisor who called black and Hispanic employees "monkeys" and an agent who had a photo on his phone of a black child in a fried chicken bucket.

The commission has ordered the office to give employees training about race-based harassment, post a notice about the findings and consider disciplining the two responsible.

The decision issued in late July came after a complaint filed by Special Agent Albert Whitney, who is black. But the EEOC ruled Whitney had not been the victim of the discrimination.

Read more: http://www.dailypress.com/news/southside/dp-nws-pilot-hampton-roads-homeland-security-office-20180919-story.html

[brewens]

1. I'd love to see a Democratic administration and Congress repeal the Patriot Act and shut

down everything to do with it. Put the funds into the Border Patrol and intelligence agencies we already had before 9/11 and The Patriot Act. We never needed Homeland Security and ICE anyway. The Bush administration dropped the ball.

[EarnestPutz]

2. Abolish a government agency ? Remember when....

....Republicans wanted to abolish the Departments of Education,
Commerce and Energy, as well as the EPA and OSHA ? It amazed me when
they were so enthusiastic in creating a new super agency after 9/11. But then
I realized it was just another law enforcement/military/high tech wet dream,
typical of the right wing. A whole new department, big new buildings all
over the Washington, DC area and a bunch of new jobs to fill with ex-military
buzz-cuts with a five point preferential on their civil service scores.