april 20 2019 (CNN)An African-American employee who claimed she was subject to stress and racial harassment after she complained about a coworker’s “Blue Lives Matter” flag and after she put up an “equity wall” has settled her lawsuit with an Oregon county, her attorney said Friday.
As part of the $100,000 agreement, Karimah Guion-Pledgure resigned from her job with the Multnomah County Department of Community Justice, her attorney, Ashlee Albies, said in an email.
Guion-Pledgure, who was a corrections technician until Friday, can reapply for other positions, Albies said.
In a lawsuit filed in January 2019, Guion-Pledgure says she and other black coworkers initially complained when a probation officer hung a “Blue Lives Matter” flag in the workplace in 2017.
Guion-Pledgure, who had been with the county since 2011, maintains that the Blue Lives Matter flag “co-opts” the Black Lives Matter movement’s slogan, and “repurposes it to shift focus to law enforcement — a chosen profession, not a racial identity — and thus denigrates, dilutes, and demeans the purpose of the Black Lives Matter movement,” according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by CNN.
The day will come when this foolish woman - Karimah Guion-Pledgure, will need police assistance and they will come to her aid. Support law enforcement officers.
Ridiculous but in reality in mot cases it’s cheaper to settle.
Remember cities have liability insurance and the carriers dictate whether or not you settle. If you choose to fight against their recommendations and lose, you have to pay because their liability is waived.