Biden-Harris DOJ sue first responders in MD, IN, NC, GA for ‘discrimination’ over tests requiring basic math skills, fitness abilities: report

The Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched a myriad of lawsuits against various police and fire departments across the states of Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, and Indiana that “discriminate” against black and female applicants after they required all prospective employees to take written as well as fitness tests.

Last week, Durham, North Carolina settled with the DOJ in a lawsuit. “Employers should identify and eliminate practices that have a disparate impact based on race” US Attorney Sandra J. Hairston for the Middle District of North Carolina said. As a consequence, the Durham Fire Department is being forced to pay out nearly $1 million to people that failed and employ 16 of them.



The DOJ claimed that the tests are not relevant to firefighters doing their jobs; yet a quick perusal of an online practice tests from the "Comprehensive Examination Battery" test cited in the North Carolina complaint demonstrates how relevant the questions are. One question asks how many 60-foot hoses are required to reach a building 350 feet away. Not knowing could mean the difference between life and death for the people inside of the building, the outlet reported.

 

The DOJ’s civil rights unit filed a lawsuit Friday against South Bend, Indiana, insisting that “South Bend uses a written examination that discriminates against Black applicants and a physical fitness test that discriminates against female applicants.”

Cash awards were paid to those black employees who failed the written tests; however, most blacks are passing the tests. The DOJ lawsuits make no effort to explain why the test was discriminatory against some but not other black applicants.

But that was just one of many lawsuits that are labeling the written and physical tests as discriminatory as more black and female applicants are failing them at a higher percent than other applicants, according to the Daily Wire.

In May, the DOJ dumbed-down the employment criteria in Cobb County, Georgia. “The County’s use of these employment practices disproportionately removed qualified African Americans from consideration for a firefighter position. The complaint further alleges that the credit check and the use of the written exam to rank applicants do not lawfully identify the best qualified candidates for the firefighter position,” the DOJ said.

In this month, the DOJ also decided that Maryland State Police should have to pay $2.75 million to females who couldn’t be inducted into the service because they failed to meet the fitness levels demanded. There were also complaints about the written examinations that demanded police officers should know how to add up the value of stolen property in the same way that a middle school student could do.