A former Cleveland firefighter has filed a discrimination lawsuit claiming the department and city officials mishandled a complaint he filed following an altercation with two other firefighters last year.
Samuel Livingston, who was hired as a firefighter in 2000, is seeking an unspecified amount in damages accusing the department of reverse discrimination after an April 5, 2016 physical altercation with his coworkers June Colon and Larry Gray.
In the 54-page lawsuit, Livingston says he endured retaliation from city officials because he is white.
The lawsuit does not reveal Colon's ethnicity, but Gray, who served as the department's public information officer and has since retired, is black.