Black officer targeted by police chief's "Ku Klux Klan" note files complaint and speaks publicly for first time: "It was offensive and humiliating"
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A Black police officer has filed a discrimination charge against an Ohio police department whose chief was seen in a surveillance video putting a note saying "Ku Klux Klan" on the officer's jacket. Sheffield Lake Officer Keith Pool's complaint alleges that the chief also interfered with the officer's job application and said "in the presence of multiple employees that he would never hire a n-----."
Attorneys for the officer said Thursday they discovered after the video was released this summer that the chief, who soon retired, had previously posted pictures of the officer and other employees on the Sheffield Lake Police Department's bulletin board that mocked their race, gender and religion.
The discrimination charge filed with the Ohio Civil Rights Commission is the first step toward filing a civil rights lawsuit, the attorneys said.
The Consumer Federal Protection Bureau last week launched an inquiry into what the agency is calling "junk fees in mortgage closing costs." These additional fees, involving home appraisal, title insurance and other services, have spiked in recent years and can add thousands of dollars to the final cost of buying a home.
Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic "Earthrise" photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90.