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OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A former tenant of an Ogden hotel that provides government-subsidized housing has filed a lawsuit saying he was discriminated against because he is African American.
The Standard-Examiner reports that 53-year-old David Webb filed a civil rights lawsuit on Jan. 6 in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City against Kier Property Management & Real Estate, which owns the Sean Herrick Apartments (formerly the Marion Hotel).
Webb seeks $500,000 in damages and an injunctive order against further discrimination.
According to the claim, a volunteer employee of the apartments threatened to beat him with a stick Dec. 21 as he tried to go to the first floor shower. Webb says the man called him "boy," which he took as a racial slur.
Kier executives did not respond to requests for comment.
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