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EXCLUSIVE: Metro leader accused of sexual, racial harassment fired

By Max Smith

WASHINGTON — A MetroAccess leader accused of racial and sexual harassment was fired Thursday, according to Metro sources.

MetroAccess Director Omari June was the focus of a 2015 lawsuit against Metro that was settled last year that accused him of harassing a woman who ended up losing her job herself in 2014 after an internal investigation.

The lawsuit accused June of talking about and simulating sex acts and questioning the woman about the color of her skin among other things.

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Metro’s Office of Inspector General had opened a new investigation into the complaints earlier this year after new Inspector General Geoffrey Cherrington took over the office. He declined to comment on the outcome of the investigation and whether the investigation had concluded.

He was fired Thursday, Metro sources said.

The MetroAccess paratransit service has had a number of service issues as well, and has faced delays in launching a pilot program to reduce costs.

Metro does not officially comment on personnel matters.

One attack, many Americas: Why 9/11 and its many griefs land differently 25 years later

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NEW YORK (AP) — When the planes crashed and the buildings fell on that sunny September morning 25 years ago, the shock waves of dismay and grief went far past downtown New York City, rural western Pennsylvania and just outside Washington, D.C. They radiated through every part of the United States in communities large and small, tearing at Americans' sense of safety and their place in the world. Hearts were broken across the nation, not just of those who lost their loved ones but among strangers who mourned for them, the Sept. 11 attacks leaving no one unaffected in an unwanted moment of horrifying togetherness. A quarter of a century later, the effects linger. We all live in a post-9/11 world, with its security strictures and surveillance. But here's the thing: Americans don't all live in the SAME one. What the attacks and their aftermath have come to mean isn't a single viewpoint shared by everyone, for reasons chronological, political and personal. It's a tapestry of meaning and grief as varied as the nation in which 9/11 took place.
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