Dykema Gossett PLLC staff subjected a Black employee to racial discrimination, including a comment about “breathing” days after the police killing of George Floyd, a lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in Michigan alleges.
The law firm violated federal and state civil rights law in its treatment of Heather Taylor-Livas, a technical support specialist in its Lansing, Mich., office from 2016 to 2020, according to the complaint filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer, who pressed his knee into the Black man’s neck for over nine minutes ...
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