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Police Chief and others still employed. What a great message that sends on discriminationTown procurement rules favored locally owned businesses and Greg’s Towing was the only towing company in Riverdale Park. But what Ashkar thought would be a straightforward business transaction degenerated and morphed into a discrimination case. With allegations that town officials called him a “camel jockey” and “foreigner” who couldn’t pass a background check, Ashkar sued, saying he found himself shut out from doing business because of his ethnicity.
After a four-day trial and two hours of deliberation, a Prince George’s County jury last month agreed, finding Riverdale Park must pay Ashkar $260,000 in damages for denying him business based on his Middle Eastern background.