The lawyer for a Black firefighter who recently filed a discrimination lawsuit in a western New York federal court against the Rochester Fire Department said his client had long been subjected to racism since he joined the agency in 2007.
For instance, the plaintiff, Jerrod Jones, had once engaged in a heated argument with a supervisor who had ordered him to “unnecessarily” use an extrication tool in response to a Black woman whose car had been in a minor fender bender, but was safely operable.
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