A settlement has been reached in the case of a Georgia couple who evicted a tenant for inviting an African American family to her home.
As WABE’s Maria White Tillman reports, Allen and Patricia McCoy acknowledged they discriminated against their tenant, Victoria Sutton, in 2018 for having African American guests in the Gordon County apartment she rented from them.
According to the lawsuit, the landlords used racial slurs when evicting Sutton.
They also threatened to call police and to harm Sutton physically if she attempted to contest the eviction.
Sutton’s attorney, Brian Corman, says it was important to his client for the McCoys to acknowledge their wrongdoing.
