A deputy got away with racism for years, a lawsuit says. Wyoming’s first Black sheriff fired him.
25 January 2022
In June 2017, Cpl. Jamin Johnson, who is Black, was in the common area of the Albany County Sheriff’s Office in Laramie, Wyo., when one of his superiors, Sgt. Christian Handley, walked into the room and asked Johnson if he had ever had sex with a Black woman. “Because that would be nasty,” Handley, who is White, told Johnson, according to a lawsuit Johnson filed this month. “That is like having sex with a dog.” According to Johnson’s lawsuit, hearing such comments from Handley was routine. Handley frequently used slurs to refer to Black people, once yelling out the n-word ...