NEW YORK (Reuters) - a video editor continues three journalists on the air for ABC television affiliates in New York alleging he suffered language "abusive, offensive and demeaning" because he is Hispanic.
Gerardo Lago made complaint against Lauren Glassberg, Kemberly Richardson and Stacey Sager, three journalists on the air for WABC-TV Eyewitness News, in a lawsuit filed Thursday in the Supreme Court of New York.
Lago also continued the station, American Broadcasting Co Inc and owner of the string ABC, Services everywhere in the world of Disney, search for at least 18 million dollars in damages.
Jeffrey Schneider, senior vice president of ABC News, who said he was speaking on behalf of the defendants, refused to comment on. An official at WABC-TV said that the station had no comment.
Lago was the cameraman for segment of "Neighborhood eats" of Glassberg. Repeatedly, she said people being recorded to excuse Lago "that he does not speak English", the trial said.
Rosemarie Arnold, lawyer of the Lago, said his client has a slight accent, but spoke "perfect English."
July 15, 2009, Sager yelled Lago on his editing of a story about a pipe bomb that exploded in front of a Starbucks restaurant in New York City and falsely accused her errors in the segmentthe trial said.
June 21, 2010, Richardson shouted expletives at the Lago while he was her cameraman, according to the complaint.
Lago has worked as a video editor, cameraman or photographer for the station since December 19, 1989, the complaint said.
Senior management of the station and the newsletter does not make efforts to stop the abuse, the prosecution said. Officials brand him a troublemaker and placed on medical leave, without assessment, October 28, the trial. Him involving medical leave "irregular", because there is nothing wrong with him, said Arnold.
When he asked to return to work, his bosses ordered him to undergo an independent medical examination with a psychologist, said Arnold. His client refused, and they him suspended without salary on February 3.
(Reported by Jennifer Golson;) (Editing by Greg McCune)
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