| Racist
Graffiti in LaGuardia Airport Project By
Magic Johnson Cited In SDNY Lawsuit
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- ESPN
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 16 – Tony Duff, a 37 year
old African American
construction worker, was a
laborer at the LaGuardia
Airport reconstruction when he
was confronted, he says, with
racist graffiti and worse. He
sued.
On
February 16, U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Ronnie Abrams held an oral
argument on the motion to
dismiss the first amended
complaint. Inner City Press
covered it.
The lawyer
for defendant Pristine
Services said there was no
basis for the lawsuit, quoting
from "WHITE POWDER" graffiti
in the complaint, saying that
was about cocaine. But there
were worse statements on those
walls.
The complaint
recites how Governor Andrew
Cuomo worked with Magic
Johnson on MWBE inclusion in
the the LGA reconstruction.
Then, the graffiti.
The case is Duff
v. Pristine Services, Inc. et
al., 19-cv-10423 (Abrams)
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