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DENVER—A hearing officer has overturned a four-day suspension given to a Denver city employee for allegedly asking two Latino co-workers how much it cost their “people to get across the border.”
Jack Burghardt was suspended after the Nov. 1 remark because his boss, Clerk and Recorder Stephanie O’Malley, though it had racial overtones.
A city hearing officer ruled it wasn’t clear that Burghardt meant the question to be derogatory.
Burghardt has said he meant no harm.
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Information from: Rocky Mountain News,
