Following a trial featuring testimony detailing unrelenting racist verbal abuse targeting a worker at an auto parts business, a Henry County jury ordered the business and its owner to pay more than $2.6 million, including $925,000 in punitive damages and $290,470 in attorney fees.
According to court documents and plaintiff’s attorney Mitchell Benjamin, the case is unusual because the defendant, Michael Bell, made no effort to conceal his racist attacks on his former employee, Michael Cooper, and encouraged other employees to join in.
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