ATLANTA - Atlanta Fire Lt. Shomari Owens told the Atlanta City Council in August of last year that he had served as a sergeant for five years without receiving sergeant pay.

What they're saying:

"For five years I’ve done the job, risked my life, ran into burning buildings, and I have not been paid," Owens said.

The Atlanta Firefighters Union says that even after that public outcry, the city still did not pay Owens, and that is when the union alleges the retaliation began.

"For some reason, the city couldn’t pay Shomari everything that he was owed, so he did the last thing he knew to do. He came to a city council meeting and asked his public officials to help him. What did the fire chief do? He filed two charges on him: truthfulness and public criticism. He offered him no help, no com

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