. >>Kim: THE CITY OF WARREN HAS TAKEN A LOT OF HEAT THE PAST YEAR OVER ALLEGATIONS OF
RACISM.
>> LAST JANUARY AUDIO RECORDINGS OF JIM FAUST SURFACED.
>> THEN IN MAY THE ONLY AFRICAN AMERICAN POLICE OFFICER SUED FORDISCRIMINATION.
>> THAN THE CITY THE RIGHT TO RESIGN.
>> AND TONIGHT HE IS MAKING CLAIMS OF RACIST BEHAVIOR BY KEY CITY OFFICIALS.
THIS TIME ETC. KEVIN DIETZ HAS THE STORY.
>>Reporter WELCOME TO WARREN, MICHIGAN, THE STATE'S THIRD-LARGEST CITY, A PLACE WHERE BETWEEN THE YEARS 2000 AND 2010 THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN POPULATION EXPLODED, GROWING
300 PERCENT.
TODAY, BLACK RESIDENTS MAKE UP OVER 60 PERCENT OF THE POPULATION HERE.
GREG MURRAY JOAS DIVERSITY DIRECTOR WAS TO MAKE THE CITY OF WARREN'S WORKFORCE BECOME AS DIVERSE AS ITS PEOPLE.
HE QUIT HIS JOB SAYING, WARREN MAYOR JIM FAUST WASN'T INTERESTED IN SEEING MORE MINORITIES WORKING FOR THE CITY.
>> THE MAN WALKING TO MY OFFICE ON THREE SEPARATE OCCASIONS AND TOLD ME THAT HE WANTED TO PUT DIVERSITY ON THE BACK BURNER UNTIL AFTER THE 2019 ELECTION BECAUSE HE FEARED
A BACKLASH FROM WHITE VOTERS WHO WERE NOT READY FOR DIVERSITY.
>>Reporter: ,HIS OFFICE QUICKLY DENIED SAY THE EVER WANTED TO PU DIVERSITY ON THE BACK BURNER, INSISTING MAYOR FAUST HAS APPOINTED FIVE AFRICAN-AMERICANS TO RUN CITY
HARVEST, AND APPOINTED A MINORITY HEAVY PLANNING COMMISSION.
BUT NOW GREG MURRAY HAS GONE BEYOND WORDS.
HE HAS TESTIFIED UNDER OATH.
>> I FEEL THAT I HAVE BEEN BROUGHT TO THE CITY UNDER FALS PRETENSES, THAT MAYBE HE THOUGHT THAT I WOULD BE THE KIND OF PERSON WHO WOULD TOLERATE HISNONCOMMITMENT, AND
THAT I WOULD JUST COLLECT A PAYCHECK.
>>Reporter: MURRAY SAYS IT'S NOT JUST THE MAYOR WANT TO SLOW DOWN PROGRESS, HE CALLS OUT THE FORMER POLICE COMMISSIONER JERRY GREENE, UNDER OATH, SAYING " IT WAS REPRESENTED TO
ME BY THE MAYOR DIRECTLY THAT JERRY GREENE, THE POLICE COMMISSIONER, WAS RACIST.
JERRY GREENE SHARED WITH THE MAYOR THAT BLACK PEOPLE COULD NOT PASS THE TEST OR THE BACKGROUNDCHECKS.
MURRAY WENT ON TO SAY THAT THE DEPUTY MAYOR TOLD HIM GREENE SAID, "THE POLICE COMMISSIONER WENT INTO A MEETING WITH HIS COMMAND STAFF AND SHARED WITH THE COMMAND STAFF AND HE TOLD
THAT ND TO STAY OUT OF HIS HOUSE.
THEY SAY THEY ARE PUT IN DANGER BY RACIALLY INSENSITIVE POLICE COMMAND AND ME.
>> THE BACKLASH WAS THEY DIDN'T PROVIDE BACKUP.
THIS IS DANGEROUS.
RACISM IS DEADLY.
AND IT IS A CANCER THAT IS EATING AT OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY.
AND I THINK THAT THE CITY OF WARREN AND MAYOR FOUTS CAN BE THE POSTER BOY, AND THE POSTERIOR CITY, GOVERNMENT, FOR PROMOTING RACIAL DIVISION AND HOSTILITY BETWEEN THE RACES
ACROSS OUR COUNTRY.
>> I CONTACTED THE MAYOR AND FORMER POLICE COMMISSIONER JERRY GREENE.
THEIR ATTORNEY RESPONDED BY PHONE, CALLING THE ALLEGATIONS RIDICULOUS.
>> MURRAY IS TRYING TO HOLD THE CITY OVER A BARREL BECAUSE HE WANTED A RACE.
PLAIN AND SIMPLE, HE WANTED A SUBSTANTIAL BOOST IN HIS SALARY AFTER ONLY HAVING BEEN ON THE JOB FOR A MATTER OF MONTHS.
WHEN MAYOR FAUST WOULDN'T GIVE HIM THAT SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE, ALL OF A SUDDEN HE IS" THAT SPEECH AND HE SAID, IS ACTIVELY PURSUING DIVERSITY AND THE FORMER POLICE COMMISSIONER IS
INNOCENT OF THE ALLEGATIONS.
>> ABSOLUTELY ABSURD.
WE DON'T BELIEVE THAT WA OVERSTATED.
>>Reporter: THE CITY OF WARREN SAYS THIS STORY IS FAR FROM OVER.
THEY HAD A MINUTE TH