A California Democrat mayor is suing her own city for more than $7 million alleging race and age discrimination – but still wants to be reelected.
Deborah Robertson, who is black, claims the city of Rialto didn’t provide her with a special security door in case of an active shooter, despite giving one to a “white” colleague.
The 73-year-old also says the authorities gave her the wrong kind of pension and failed to arrange ergonomic furniture following a 2019 car crash, and that the city’s police department looked her up on their database without a good crime-fighting reason.
If successful, her three claims, filed last year, would amount to $7,482,000 – or 3.3 per cent of the city’s annual budget – $6 million of which would be in relation to the alleged police snooping.
Ms Robertson, a Democrat, has been mayor of the city, in San Bernardino county, which is 56 miles east of Los Angeles and has a population of 100,000, since 2012.
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