Two Kansas City communications employees were afraid of their safety after being accused of the doxxing chiefs Harrison Butker in the social media account in the city last year. Women were subjected to hateful, racist and misogynistic threats and feared they could be injured by online anonymous thugs.
Now they are both judging the city, claiming that Mayor Quinton Lucas and other city officials have refused to clear their names, which damaged their reputation and allowed the harassment to continue.
April Leonard, the former social media manager in the city, has imposed these allegations in a court document this week. The document amended the employment discrimination case she brought against the city in March.
Leonard, who is still working for the city of different work, claims in this initial petition for damage that she is a victim of employment discrimination based on the city’s failure to fully satisfy her needs as a person suffering from an autoimmune state.
The second repaired petition, submitted this week, includes details of the incident in BUTER and gives one reason why someone can post an unauthorized message in the X account in the city. Leonard’s petition says the city has been dissolved in providing numerous employees access to its social media accounts. She claims that she has repeatedly expressed concerns about her bosses, fearing that this has done her and a colleague “vulnerable as they are identified as social media managers for the city.”
Last month, Leonard’s colleague Andrea Watts also claims that in court, he filed that urban officials had done too little to clear his name after being mistakenly identified as responsible for unsigned on May 14, 2024, posting to X, who says Buck lives on Lee’s top. The man who wrote it tries in a sarcastic way to distance Kansas City from the comments that Burker made at a college graduation ceremony, which some have found offensive.
No woman had nothing to do with office. Another person with access to the X account in the city has been found to be responsible and fired.
City authorities deleted and apologized for the BUTTER message 40 minutes after its publication. The city’s account was flooded with angry comments accusing the city to put Butter in danger, noting the name of the suburb of Kansas City, where he lives.
This is not the strict definition of Doxxing because the publication did not give the issue of Butker. Lee’s meeting had 106,000 inhabitants a year ago, according to the Census Bureau.
Racist threats
But the two women had come in a real sense. The critics of the publication in BUTER have sought and published the names of the women, where they live and other personal information, assuming that they are responsible on the basis of them who have responsibilities in the social media in the city department for communication.
According to court cases, they have received threats of death and have been convicted with ugly rumors. Both women are black and have been defiled based on their race and gender.
“There is not a deep hole enough, there are no forests deep enough to hide,” read a post, according to the Watts establishment.
Another depicted a black woman hanging from a tree in front of a photo of the apartment building, where Watts lived with her full name and address.
Leonard was called a “ghetto rat” and n the word, said in her court case. Someone called Savage Ravage said Butter should sue the city authorities and “I hope everyone will participate in the management of this AIDS and Cancer Account. And this is the least of what you deserve.”
Leonard was horrified, said in the suit. She called the police after seeing two men watching her house. The city agreed to get her into a hotel for two nights, but refused to cover her eating. Both she and Watts say that the city has never made a public statement that they have requested to clearly state that they are not the people responsible for the publication in Butr.
Instead, Mayor Quinton Lucas is praying with the public to stop harassing women, but he has never baptized them.
“In the last 24 hours, some who seek to harass, harass and intimidate, sent servants and threats to and shared photos of women employees without participation in the latest publications in the city,” he said to X. “Honestly, please just stop, be decent. Buck stops with me. Please leave them alone.”
Lucas, Democrat, later accused Missouri General Andrew Bailey, a Republican, for continuing the furore, appearing on television and requiring an investigation.
“I was disturbed when the city failed to support me and a colleague about Butri’s tweet, which led to continuous and unjustified public control, harassment and hostile work environment,” Leonard said in a statement issued by her lawyer Heather Schlozman.
“We have also asked for our safety, asking the city to clear its names immediately. This stress sharpened my autoimmune state and ultimately led to hospitalizations.”
Judicial cases seek monetary damage and any relief that the court considers good.
The city does not comment on pending litigation or staff questions, said city spokesman Sherae Honeycutt.