Tennessee School Cop Claims He Was Fired For Having A Black Wife

Posted on April 18, 2016

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A former school officer in Knox County, Tennessee has filed a $250,000 lawsuit against the district and the city, charging that he was wrongfully terminated because his supervisor took offense to his marriage to a Black woman, writes USA Today.

The lawsuit claims that John Smelser, who is White, was fired in May 2015 from a school in Knoxville after Gus Paidousis, chief of school security, learned that Smelser was married to a Black woman with whom he has two children, the report says.

From USA Today:

The lawsuit seeks $250,000 in compensatory damages and a “mandatory order requiring defendants to abide by the laws that prohibit race discrimination and ordering the appropriate employees involved in the acts of race discrimination to receive appropriate training.”
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