A Detroit firefighter reports a colleague’s racist remark to higher ups - but things didn't turn out the way the whistle blower expected.
The situation is being investigated, but there are a lot of concerns about how it was handled. From the firefighters in the room who pretended they didn't hear the remark but did - to the chief who waited a week to write up his statement about what happened. "If we make a complaint we should not be punished as if we did something wrong because we spoke up about something that was improper," said retired battalion chief Tracy Thomas. It appears that is what happened to Eric Anderson, a black Detroit firefighter at Engine 50 on the city's east side.
He and a few co-workers, all white, were watching news coverage of the Bill Cosby rape retrial back in April, when one of the firefighters made a blatantly racist remark about a black woman condemning Cosby.