Face of Nation : Two former employees of a southwest Mississippi city are pursuing legal action, claiming black officials fired them because they were white. Former McComb city prosecutor David Brewer sued the city Aug. 22 in federal court, The Enterprise-Journal reported.
Former public works director Chuck Lambert is pursuing a racial discrimination complaint he filed earlier this year with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. That complaint could be followed by a lawsuit.
Brewer claimed in the lawsuit that a vote to replace him with Dawn Stough, a black woman, had no other motivation besides racial animus. Stough has since resigned. The lawsuit says the white city attorney, police chief and deputy city clerk were also replaced at the same meeting.
