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A unanimous state Court of Appeals panel has ruled in favor of Mocksville in the town’s legal dispute with a fired police officer. The officer had claimed he was dismissed after filing a complaint that he was forced to work while sick with COVID-19.
Just days after interim police department head Bobby West resigned from the Mocksville Police Department, after five days on the job, Maj. Koula Black, second-in-command, has submitted her letter of resignation."I have worked tirelessly for the Town of Mocksville and the Mocksville Police Department. I withstood countless acts of sexual harassment and gender discrimination, but I never stopped doing my job and doing it well. Certain members of the Town’s board have used their political power and lies to manipulate terminated officers to interfere with my employment," Black wrote in he...