By Jake Pearson
The New York Daily News
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — East New York EMT Veronica Mack has filed a lawsuit against the nonprofit that operates Brookdale, Jamaica and Flushing hospitals, charging she was regularly treated unfairly because she is black, was referred to as “you people” and “your people” by a white supervisor - and was even denied a promotion after complaining.
“It would have been my dream job,” said Mack, 29, who was slated to be promoted to a 911 EMT but was passed over after blowing the whistle. “Now everywhere I go, I feel like I’m going to be discriminated against again.”
In a civil suit filed in Brooklyn Federal Court in August 2008, Mack claimed her direct supervisor at Medisys, Keith Wilken, who is white, “would frequently discipline [Mack] for numerous things while at the same time, overlook similar actions by nonblack employees.”
Full story: Civil suit filed in August 2008