The president of The National Bar Association, the largest network of predominantly African American attorneys and judges, has filed a new class action against Amazon Inc. alleging racial discrimination in its handling of COVID-19 precautions for its employees.

Attorney Tricia “CK” Hoffler filed the suit on behalf of former employee Christian Smalls, whose highly publicized firing followed a worker protest over conditions at the Staten Island fulfillment center. The lawsuit alleges Amazon executives, including CEO Jeff Bezos, “perpetuated the company’s pervasive discriminatory animus against it minority workers” by providing inadequate COVID-19 protections to its Black, Latino and Latina employees, many of them line workers.

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