Actor Rockmond Dunbar claims The Walt Disney Co. and Twentieth Century Fox Television religiously and racially discriminated against him for seeking an exemption from the companies’ COVID-19 vaccine mandate as the only Black lead actor on the Fox procedural show “9-1-1.”

In a federal complaint filed Thursday in the Central District of California, Dunbar claimed that he was wrongfully terminated from “9-1-1” after seeking medical and religious exemptions from the vaccine policy as a follower of the Church of Universal Wisdom, which dubs it sacrilegious to use medication or chemical substances that “defy natural law.”

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