Report: Office ‘rife’ with ‘racially hostile behavior’

The Department of Homeland Security’s investigative office in Hampton Roads is “clearly rife with offensive and racially hostile behavior,” the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a decision obtained by The Virginian-Pilot. The finding was based, among other things, on a supervisor who called black and Hispanic employees “monkeys” and an agent who had a photo on his phone of a black child in a fried chicken bucket.

Leslie Anderson: “The commission has ordered the office to give employees training about race-based harassment, post a notice about the findings and consider disciplining the two responsible.” Or fire them. If in your findings you find them to be accurate, they should lose their jobs. I’m sure somewhere there is an ethics portion of their contract they violated, be it as simple as a “fair work place.”

Robert Kimball: They’re about a dozen years late.