Brandi Johnson (pictured above) was awarded $250,000 in compensatory damages last week, after she sued her boss Rob Carmona (pictured below) over a four-minute N-word tirade regarding her workplace attire and unprofessional attitude at his East Harlem, N.Y., nonprofit employment center. The March 2012 racially charged harangue involving Johnson, an African American, and Carmona, who identifies himself as Hispanic and also African American, was all caught on tape, according to the New York Daily News.
Carmona reportedly founded STRIVE, an agency which has assisted more than 50,000 at-risk individuals who are the hardest to employ and provided them with the necessary tools to find sustained employment. Johnson, who was employed at the agency, told a jury that she has long endured degrading comments from her employer.
The 38-year-old single Mother of two testified that during Carmona’s last rant, which was allegedly full of expletives, she decided to tape it with her iPhone then fled to the bathroom afterward, where she reportedly cried for 45 minutes.
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