Credit Courtesy of City of Spokane
A departing director of the city’s homeless and neighborhoods services division has accused the city manager, who oversees all employees at city hall, of mistreating him because of his race, according to a report by The Spokesman-Review.
Cupid Alexander, the only Black division director at the city of Spokane, unexpectedly announced he was leaving Monday. After his departure was announced, The Spokesman-Review obtained emails between him, and city manager Johnnie Perkins, where Alexander laid out a pattern of mistreatment, that no other employees seemed to have been subjected to, culminating in Perkins allegedly trying to force him out earlier than his resignation.