Black Couple Sues Neighbor After Years Of Racial Abuse
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The couple says they were targeted for years by their neighbor in Gainesville, GA.
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A black couple who moved with their kids to a house in Gainesville, Georgia, is filing a lawsuit under fair housing law against the white neighbor who targeted them for years with racist abuse — and the city that employed him for not doing anything to stop it. Gregory and Sophia Bonds say the abuse by Roy Turner Jr. began the day they moved in and sometimes occurred when he was working as a city garbage collector. Once he pointed a gun at Gregory Bonds, leading to a police standoff. Turner admitted calling them a slur to an AP reporter. “I said ‘porch monkey,'” he said, laughing. “That’s just a joking-around term.”
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