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rug

(82,333 posts) Thu Oct 9, 2014, 08:38 PM Oct 2014

THP trooper religious discrimination suit will go to trial

WBIR Staff, WBIR 5:02 p.m. EDT October 9, 2014

A religious discrimination lawsuit filed by a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper from Knoxville will go to a federal trial.

Trooper De'Ossie Dingus filed a complaint after THP fired him in 2010. Dingus, who is a Muslim, says THP required him to attend a training meeting on weapons of mass destruction, but the video focused on the radicalization of Islamic boys.

Major Kevin Taylor, a military liaison with the Department of Homeland Security, conducted the class. Dingus says Taylor referred to him as "one of them" and a "black Muslim" when he approached him with some complaints after class.

Dingus filed a complaint with THP, and Taylor filed one in return, claiming Dingus was disruptive and displayed characteristics of a terrorist.

http://www.wbir.com/story/news/local/2014/10/09/thp-trooper-religious-discrimination-suit-will-go-to-trial/16988157/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=wbir/local-news

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THP trooper religious discrimination suit will go to trial (Original Post) rug Oct 2014 OP

Anybody who argues with you must be a terrorist. Shrike47 Oct 2014 #1

He's got a case. Oddly, I googled his name and found his DUI mugshot. How can he be a trooper CurtEastPoint Oct 2014 #2

I don't think it's the same guy. cbayer Oct 2014 #5

Which one had the Dui? Dingus or Taylor? Hoppy Oct 2014 #3

In america, that... is an unfortunate name. AtheistCrusader Oct 2014 #4

I can't imagine NOT going to the courthouse Mariana Oct 2014 #6

Shrike47

(6,913 posts)

1. Anybody who argues with you must be a terrorist.

Reply to rug (Original post)

Thu Oct 9, 2014, 08:48 PM

Oct 2014

CurtEastPoint

(20,095 posts)

2. He's got a case. Oddly, I googled his name and found his DUI mugshot. How can he be a trooper

Reply to rug (Original post)

Thu Oct 9, 2014, 09:01 PM

Oct 2014

with a DUI? Interesting.

cbayer

(146,218 posts)

5. I don't think it's the same guy.

Reply to CurtEastPoint (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 10, 2014, 11:01 AM

Oct 2014

Hoppy

(3,595 posts)

3. Which one had the Dui? Dingus or Taylor?

Reply to rug (Original post)

Thu Oct 9, 2014, 11:10 PM

Oct 2014

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)

4. In america, that... is an unfortunate name.

Reply to rug (Original post)

Fri Oct 10, 2014, 10:38 AM

Oct 2014

I get the feeling this guy has been on the receiving end of quite a bit of bullying, outside the complaint in this case.

Mariana

(15,630 posts)

6. I can't imagine NOT going to the courthouse

Reply to AtheistCrusader (Reply #4)

Fri Oct 10, 2014, 03:33 PM

Oct 2014

on my eighteenth birthday, if I had a name like that. Poor guy.

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