A white police officer in Michigan is alleging in a lawsuit that colleagues started treating him in a racist manner after he received genetic testing results from Ancestry.com that showed he is 18 percent black.
Sergeant Cleon Brown is alleging that the Hastings police chief called him "Kunta"—after the main character from the 1976 novel
Roots—and that colleagues whispered "back lives matter" to him in the hallways,
local news site MLive.com reported. Also, when each officer had a stocking on the department's Christmas tree, someone reportedly put into Brown's a Santa figurine with 18 percent written on it.
Brown, who has been on the force for nearly two decades,
filed the lawsuit against the city of Hastings, Police Chief Jeff Pratt, Deputy Chief Dale Boulter, Sergeant Kris Miller and Hastings City Manager Jeff Mansfield.
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