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🗓️ 17 October 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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0:00.0 | Blaze Radio Network. |
0:02.0 | And now, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. |
0:05.0 | Boy, if even some of this story about the Kansas City Fire Department is true, |
0:12.0 | they need a little revamping. So the story is about this |
0:16.8 | Rebecca Reynolds, a 61-year-old paramedic with the K C. F.D. and she has just agreed to a settlement with the city of Kansas City |
0:27.0 | for 1.3 million dollars. She is a 61-year-old lesbian firefighter who says she faced abuse for years because of her gender, sex, and age. |
0:38.0 | And it's the city's largest payout for a suit against the Kansas City Fire Department. |
0:43.4 | She says she experienced sex and age discrimination, retaliation, |
0:47.4 | and a hostile work environment |
0:49.4 | while she worked for the Fire Department. |
0:51.3 | As part of the settlement, she agreed to drop two pending |
0:53.7 | discrimination lawsuits against the city and she also agreed not to pursue a third |
0:57.8 | lawsuit accusing a coworker of allegedly urinating on things in her office while she was out on medical leave. |
1:05.0 | Why would you do that? |
1:09.0 | The firefighter, this Plisee Robinson, or maybe it's please a P l e a z e Robinson the third was charged with the |
1:18.4 | felony in April in connection with that incident last year why Why would you pee on things in our office? |
1:25.8 | Anyway, the report issued last year |
1:29.0 | found the department has made little progress |
1:31.5 | in addressing its systemic problems with sexism and racism. |
1:35.0 | Yeah, if that stuff is going on, absolutely. |
1:38.0 | 1.3 million doesn't seem like it's enough, but she was probably tired of the fight and at 61 now she's like just |
1:46.3 | give me the million three and I'm gonna go away so she began working with K.C.F. |
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