A week ago Thursday, Flossmoor Mayor Michelle Nelson said the village was 'parting ways' with Jones. Last week Jones – the south suburban village's first Black police chief – filed a federal civil rights lawsuit.
CHICAGO -- The Village of Flossmoor and Village Manager Bridget Wachtel said in a legal filing Monday that some of the language in a lawsuit filed by dismissed police Chief Jerel Jones was 'scandalous' and 'defamatory.'A week ago Thursday, Flossmoor Mayor Michelle Nelson said the village was 'parting ways' with Jones. Last week Jones – the south suburban village's first Black police chief – filed a federal civil rights lawsuit.
'A fifth said Watchel's memoranda toward Jones were 'personally derogatory,' and continued: 'Jerel states that Wachtel treated him in this fashion because she does not like that he is Black, does not like that a Black man takes initiatives, does not like that a Black man might speak differently or use different speech patterns and tones than her view of how a Black man should speak, and wants to continue to remind the Black man that he is subservient to the White power...
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