‘Stop Taking It So Personal’: Black New York Deputy Discovers Colleagues Saved Her Contact with a Photo of Octavia Spencer’s ‘The Help’ Character and Fought Back — Now the County Must Pay
Three days into a federal trial last week, a Black female deputy sheriff won a $400,000 settlement from Onondaga County in central New York after nearly five years of litigating a lawsuit accusing the county sheriff’s department of racial discrimination and retaliation for complaining about it. Kamilla Peck, 49, who worked for the sheriff’s department…
