KCMO City Manager Confronts Yet Another Discrimination Lawsuit

This longstanding complaint now turns into a legal matter for 12th & Oak.

The lawsuit against the embattled bureaucrat shouldn't be downplayed given that rising anger amongst the professional class of Black women in Kansas City is a VERY REAL THING and might impact the future of politicos and policy going forward.

Here are the basics and more info . . .

She claims that (City Manager Brian) Platt told her last April that she could quit or be fired for allegedly violating the city’s rule that all employees live within the city limits. SHE claims that was a “pretexual” excuse, part of a pattern of the city’s selective enforcement of the residency rule to get rid of certain employees, particularly Black women like her.

Here lawsuit includes many of the same allegations she made last spring, when her ouster, setting off a furor among civil rights leaders who decried a culture of discrimination at City Hall. It comes as the city is in the process of negotiating a contract extension for Platt.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Ex-KC civil rights director sues official for discrimination as city works to keep him

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