Cenk Uygur
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Fired News Anchor Wendy Bell Sues Station For Discrimination
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14:28Now PlayingA news anchor in Pittsburgh was fired in March after posting a racist message to Facebook in the aftermath of a brutal mass murder. Anchor Wendy Bell has now filed a lawsuit against her former employer. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"In March, a white award-winning broadcast news anchor in Pittsburgh posted on her professional Facebook page what she claimed was a heartfelt call to action on the perceived black-on-black crime epidemic in the United States, particularly in the city she’d covered for almost 20 years.
The post came two weeks after she covered a mass shooting at a backyard barbecue that left four people injured and six dead, including a pregnant woman, in Wilkinsburg, a majority black borough. The district attorney called the heinous crime calculated, planned and one of the “most brutal” he had seen in his 18-year tenure...
Now Bell is striking back.
On Monday, an attorney for the mother of five filed a federal lawsuit on her behalf claiming that if she were black, her Facebook post would not have been considered a fireable offense in the eyes of her employer.”*
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