Vermont Public Safety Commissioner Michael Schirling defended his agency’s handling of the case. "I remain convinced 1,000 times over that had my family been white, the troopers or the DAs would have intervened and removed Barreda immediately," Clemmons told Campbell. In an interview with Clemmons that was included in the report, she said she believed she would have been treated differently if she were not Black. Clemmons and terrorize her and her family and destroy a building on one of the few African American farms left in Vermont.” “The Vermont State Police allowed Gregory Barreda to prey on Dr. “The power that law enforcement has to manipulate the facts through its exercise of discretion in the delivery of services is significant. ![]() “This case illustrates why people of color and women fear turning to the police, and distrust government agencies of all kinds,” Campbell wrote in her conclusion. In addition to conducting new interviews, Campbell reviewed court documents more than 2,000 emails, including internal police correspondence and communications with Clemmons and others photographs body camera footage and 911 calls. They based their vote on a report compiled after a three-year investigation by attorney Nelson Campbell, a commission investigator, who found that state police were adversarial toward Clemmons and challenged her pleas for protection from a man who allegedly harassed and intimidated the family in late 2017. ![]() In a 5-0 vote in March, the Vermont Human Rights Commission found there were reasonable grounds to believe that troopers violated Vermont’s Fair Housing and Public Accommodations Act in 2017 in their interactions with Lydia Clemmons, the director of the nonprofit center for African American arts, culture and agriculture. ![]() Photo via Human Rights Commission reportĪ state commission has found that the Vermont State Police and the Vermont Department of Public Safety illegally discriminated against the African American director of the Clemmons Family Farm based on her race and gender. A photo of the Barn House at the Clemmons Family Farm in Charlotte.
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