The city of Bloomfield, New Jersey, the fire dept, the fire chief, and firefighter Walter Coffey are all taking major heat as a result of numerous egregiously racist incidents that targeted Black firefighter Patrick Thomas.

According to Fire Law Blog, Thomas has filed a $25 million federal civil rights lawsuit against all of the aforementioned after he was subjected multiple times to the n-word with the hard -er and had a noose shown to him twice. The complaint alleges that Coffey frequently used the violent vocabulary in the presence of not only Thomas, but the stations supervisors and chief with no consequence. To be clear, this is not a case of Coffey quoting rap lyrics or lines in a movie. The use of that word was specifically to “harass, intimidate, and as a means of informing minori

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