A white police sergeant in the town of Hastings says he faced racial discrimination after a DNA test showed he has African ancestry.
Hastings Sergeant Cleon Brown claims a DNA test from an online company showed he's 18 percent African. He told people at work. That’s when his attorney says the harassment started.
A complaint filed last month in federal court claims the chief of Hastings police, Jeff Pratt, called Brown “Kunta” in front of other officers, a reference to Kunta Kinte, a character from the novel Roots.
On Jan. 4, Brown filed a discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Soon, the defendants were aware of the complaint.
"Sgt. Brown, in a very joking and jovial manner, informed several of his fellow officers that he had recently taken a DNA test through Ancestry.com and the results showed that he was 18% African American."
The city said Ancestry.com's website didn't include "African American" as a possible test result.
"Ancestry.com's website also states that the test results do not definitively reveal where a person's ancestors actually originated; only that there are shared characteristics in genes, which might or might not indicate a person's ancestors are actually from that geographic area," the city said.
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I wouldn't believe he's 18% African unless that was verified by a second testing company.
This story seems suspicious to me
Posted by Yatunde Lisa (Member # 22253) on :
