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Suit: Hawaiian Air employee found noose, lynching rope near locker
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A Hawaiian Airlines employee has filed a racial harassment and discrimination suit against the carrier, saying that his life was threatened by colleagues who placed a noose and a lynching rope near his locker.
Timothy Degrate, who is black, alleges the incident happened in August 2016.
"What that means to me, murder, death, intimidation," Degrate tells Hawaii News Now. "It was just a hostile environment to work in."
Degrate said it started with a few derogatory comments years ago, then co-workers started harassing him.
Read more: http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/37229317/suit-black-hawaiian-air-employee-found-noose-lynching-rope-near-locker