Say No to Racism…Yeah!!!

A Montana Highway Patrol trooper alleges former chief Kenton Hickethier passed him over for promotions and also tried to embarrass him in public, but only after he complained about Hickethier's conduct at a training conference in Phoenix.

The Department of Labor released the Human Rights complaint Trooper Glenn Quinnell of Glendive filed in July that says that not only did Hickethier sexually harass women at the 2011 conference; he also made a racist comment about Quinnell having dinner with a black trooper from another state.  Who does that? There is no room for racism in this town, it’s not 1950!

And to top things off Quinnell also alleged Hickethier ordered troopers to arrest people if they even suspected they were in the country illegally. That’s not good. It’s like a page right out of deliverance.  Haven’t we progressed beyond that?  Thankfully Hickethier resigned in August after the Department of Justice found the two reprimands in his file as it prepared a response to Quinnell's Human Rights complaint. The whole thing is just shameful and shocking in this day and age.

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