When he joined the fire department about 25 years ago, Derek Chapman recalled, a white firefighter told his training officer: “I see you got your monkey behind you.”
Maryland’s first Black deputy chief fire marshal says he is done tolerating the disrespect he has endured for years and has received the green light to proceed with a lawsuit against its state police.
Derek Chapman has accused the Office of the State Fire Marshal, a division of the Maryland State Police, of maintaining a long history of institutionalized today!
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