A Seattle ATF agent is receiving a $450,000 after complaining of racial harassment from a co-worker with Nazi ink. The offending co-worker claims he is not racist and it was from an undercover operation in which he infiltrated a biker gang.
According to the SeattleTimes in addition to the cash payout, Cheryl Bishop, a senior supervisory agent in Seattle and former bomb-dog handler, will receive a ring commemorating a previous assignment as the first female member of the ATF’s Special Response Team (SRT). The ring will be presented to Bishop during a meeting with ATF Acting Director Regina Lombardo.
Bishop filed her lawsuit in 2018, alleging the agency scuttled her prestigious appointment to work at its Washington, D.C., headquarters after she filed an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaint against fellow supervisor Bradley Devlin, the bureau’s resident agent in charge in Eugene, Oregon.
According to court documents, Devlin has worn a Nazi-themed tattoo — showing what’s described as a “German Eagle SS Lightning Bolt” — since the early 2000s.
Devlin’s tattoo, along with a series of emails sent from his ATF account mocking black people and then-President Barack Obama, were at the heart of Bishop’s lawsuit. Devlin was Bishop’s supervisor in Seattle from 2009 to 2011 and she alleges he has continued to disparage her work since. The Seattle Field Division of ATF oversees offices in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, Hawaii and Guam…
Devlin has worn his Nazi-themed tattoo for nearly two decades. He said he got it while working undercover with “The Order of Blood,” an outlaw white supremacist biker gang in Ohio and refuses to remove it, calling it a “war trophy” from his undercover days according to FoxNews
Bishop found out about the tattoo in 2009 when she was assigned to a group Devlin supervised. She said Devlin rolled up his sleeve and showed off the arm ink during a retirement party for an agent in 2011 “while eyeing (Bishop) with a grin.” Bishop said she complained to another supervisor but that nothing was done. Bishop also filed a formal complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in May 2016 and claimed Devlin bad-mouthed her to federal prosecutors and law enforcement officials in Oregon after she was tapped to temporarily replace him…
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