HFD Hit Yet Again With Harassment Complaint, This Time by a Hispanic Firefighter
Just a week after the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sided with a Houston firefighter's charges she was harassed, HFD was hit with another embarrassing allegation of firehouse misconduct.
Another companit against the Houston Fire Department
In a press conference today, a Hispanic activist group said a firefighter had found his equipment tied in a noose, a note saying, "Learn your (expletive deleted) job, Mexican. You should be glad that you don't live in Arizona" and another note referring to him as a "beaner."
KPRC had the story initially about the incidents, which are alleged to have occurred at Station 42 in far east Houston.
The city attorney's office issued an official, and boilerplate, message:
"We take any allegation of racial harassment very seriously. This matter has been under investigation by the OIG and it is my understanding that the investigation is near completion. Nothing further can be said until the investigation is complete," city attorney David Feldman said.
The firefighter involved in the complaint, Joseph Salcido, did not attend the press conference and did not contact the groups holding it, said Johnny Mata of LULAC and the Greater Houston Coalition for Justice.
The groups are calling for a federal investigation into the complaints.
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