White Towing Company Owner In Charlotte Agrees To Pay $30K To Black Workers His Companies Booted During Pandemic

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The owner of a towing company in Charlotte, N.C., is finding out the hard way that mixing racism with predatory capitalism can end up costing one more than they gained by, well, basically just being terrible people.

According to the Charlotte News & Observer, in 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the N.C. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against David Jewel Satterfield and his Charlotte-based companies, A1 Towing Solutions Inc. and Automobile Recovery and Parking Enforcement Inc....