Franklin Savage, who has been a Pocomoke City police officer for the last four years, says he was fired after he complained that the state’s attorney repeatedly used the N-word in a meeting last year involving a case he was taking to court.
The Washington Post reports that he was dismissed because his integrity was being questioned after he filed an Equal Employment Opportunity Complaint against the state’s attorney.
While state’s attorney Beau Oglesby could not be reach for comment by the Post the paper notes he has written that during the meeting a letter was read as part of evidence seized during a search warrant that contained variations on the N-word.
His dismissal comes four months after the first black police chief of Pocomoke City Kelvin Sewell was fired.
Sewell claims that his dismissal was the result of his refusal to fire Savage and another black officer who alleged discrimination.
