An Oregon jury recommended this week that a judge grant a Black firefighter $275,000 for the racial discrimination he faced after he suffered years of racist comments and jokes from his supervisors and colleagues, and was denied a promotion opportunity.

Jason Wilson filed a lawsuit against the city of Portland in February 2024, alleging repeated racial discrimination, harassment, and retaliation within the Portland Fire Bureau. Wilson, 41, is a former U.S. Marine who joined the fire department in 2007 and became a fire inspector in 2019, the Oregonian reported.

His suit, cited by KOIN, states that a now-retired fire captain made inappropriate, racist comments regularly and also made derogatory remarks about Wilson’s daughter.

The complaint noted one instance in which the former captain

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