Source: WFMZ.com

A white police officer in Michigan who says he was taunted by fellow officers when he told them that he was part black will receive a $65,000 settlement, his attorney said.

Sgt. Cleon Brown, a 19-year veteran with the police department in Hastings, Michigan, said a series of taunts began in 2016 when he took a genetic test through Ancestry.com and learned that he was 18% African. His colleagues at the police department were whispering "Black Lives Matter" while pumping their fists as they walked past him and his police chief referred to him as "Kunta," he said. Prior to the settlement, the city had disputed Brown's claims and claimed the officer "joked" about the results of the genetic test with colleagues. In a statement about the settlement, Hastings city manager Jeff Mansfield said the lawsuit did not have merit.