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| Prosecutory Paul Johnson (Chief D.A. who Fired the others waited until they were SUED before he went through with terminations.. SHAME.SHAME.SHAME.SHAME. On ALL of you!) |
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| Prosecutor Cary Piel |
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| Prosecutor Susan Piel Missing in Action are the other two racist culprits John Renz & Ryan Calvert |
Susan Piel, Cary Piel, John Renz and Ryan Calvert were fired Monday morning, said First Assistant District Attorney Jamie Beck.
The suit filed on behalf of prosecutor Nadiya Williams-Boldware, who is black, alleged that felony prosecutor Cary Piel made racially insulting remarks in her presence. The suit also alleged that his wife, Susan Piel, who was Williams-Boldware’s supervisor in the misdemeanor crimes section of the office, did not protect Williams-Boldware from having to hear those remarks; and that Calvert, Susan Piel’s brother and another prosecutor with the district attorney’s office, made remarks later that harassed her and contributed to a hostile work environment. Renz was also accused of making harassing remarks.
A federal jury awarded Williams-Boldware the $510,000 and ordered the county to pay attorneys’ fees.
Piel made the offending remarks while discussing a case he was prosecuting in April 2009 involving a black woman who had drunkenly driven her car through a cemetery, destroying numerous gravestones. She fought with arresting officers and made racially insulting remarks to them, and the incident was caught on a police video that Piel had just reviewed when he made his remarks in Williams-Boldware’s office.
Piel said he was enraged by what he saw on the tape. He said it made him “understand why people hung people from trees,” and “want to go home and put on his white pointy hat.”
The Piels were the prosecutors who won murder convictions against former Denton police Officer Bobby Lozano in 2009 and Charles Stobaugh of Sanger in 2011 in connection with the deaths of their wives.
Commissioner Hugh Coleman, who formerly worked in the district attorney’s office, said Johnson’s action to fire the prosecutors was too little, too late.
“I wish Paul Johnson would have taken these direct actions before we got sued,” Coleman said. “This definitely shows a lack of leadership in the DA’s office. We need to be particularly zealous with taxpayer money regarding these matters.”
My Two Cents:
There are so many instances of racial discrimination against minorities that are never brought to light. I have heard about, witnessed and personally experienced many myself while living in the South, especially in Texas. The reason these guys were terminated, in my honest opinion, was because the good' ol boys up top feared for "THEIR" jobs when shit hit the fan.
If there was a way they could have negated the publicity these charges brought the department and swept it all under the rug, in my opinion they would have. But in cases like this with MEDIA ATTENTION, they move fast don't they?
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/denton/headlines/20120625-denton-da-fires-four-after-county-s-loss-of-race-bias-case.ece
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