Man Sues Minneapolis-Based Jefferson Bus Lines for Racial Discrimination
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA, JUL 10 – A Minnesota investigation found probable cause of racial discrimination after a bus driver forced two Black passengers to sit at the back despite an empty bus, leading to a civil lawsuit.
- On July 13, 2023, a Jefferson Lines driver instructed Xavier Davis and Jarvis Greenhill to move to the back of an empty bus in Fargo, North Dakota.
- Earlier this year, Minnesota Department of Human Rights found probable cause of racial discrimination by the Jefferson Lines bus driver, and investigation revealed no policy requiring back-to-front boarding.
- The driver insisted it was company policy to board from back to front when the passengers objected, justifying it with false reasons about smell and travel.
- Following the investigation, Xavier Davis filed legal action against Jefferson Partners and the bus driver, seeking damages far in excess of $50,000, as the complaint said.
- According to court documents, a trial could be held in late 2026, and the complaint emphasizes the symbolic importance of bus seating in American civil rights history.
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What The Rosa Parks?! White Jefferson Lines Bus Driver Sued For Forcing Black Passenger To Sit In The Back
Source: Jacob Wackerhausen / Getty We thought Jim Crow was over, but an unseasoned and uncouth white man has decided that he’s got to pop out and show ni**as that the spirit of 1877 is still alive and well in Amerikkka. According to reporting done by The Minnesota Star-Tribune, a driver for Jefferson Lines bus service has come under fire for a wild, allegedly racist incident where he forced two Black men to sit in the back of the bus before he w…
‘We’re Not Going Back’: White Bus Driver Accused of Reviving Jim Crow Playbook After Ordering Black Man to the Back and Threatening to Call Cops — Now There’s a Lawsuit
Seventy years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, a Black man says he faced the same situation in Fargo, North Dakota, where the driver told him to move seats even though the bus was almost empty. Xavier Davis was heading home to Minnesota when a Jefferson Lines driver instructed him and another Black passenger to move to the back. White passengers were allowed to sit where they wanted, he said. The driver threatene…
Man sues for racial discrimination after being told to sit in back of bus in Fargo
FARGO — Two years after a driver told two Black men to sit in the back of an empty bus in Fargo, one of the men is suing the transportation company for discrimination. On Monday, July 7, an attorney for Xavier Davis filed a lawsuit in Hennepin County District Court against Jefferson Partners and the bus driver, listed in court documents as John Doe, alleging racial discrimination. On July 13, 2023, Davis boarded a Jefferson Lines bus in downtown…
Lawsuit Filed After Investigation Found White Bus Driver Made Black Passengers Sit In Back Of Bus
Source: JoeChristensen / Getty Bruh — what year is this? Look, we all know that the current presidential administration is bound and determined to turn the clock back and make Jim Crow great again, but two years before President Donald Trump made his triumphant (or abysmal, depending on who you ask) return to the White House and turned anti-DEI propaganda into a which hunt on Black progress, a white bus driver in North Dakota was making Black pa…
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