SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A newly hired-and-fired correctional officer is suing Washington’s Department of Corrections, saying he lost his job because he wore a “Black Lives Matter” shirt to work.
Enow-Tambong Agbor-Baiyee was hired to work as an on-call guard at Airway Heights Corrections Center. He said in a federal lawsuit filed last week that during a six-week training program, an instructor and other trainees wore shirts that said “Police Lives Matter.”
In response, Agbor-Baiyee, who is Black, first objected in writing and eventually wore one that said “Black Lives Matter.”
He said he was subsequently fired and told he had been causing problems.