Bigen King
Pro
Jovan Thomas, 56, was fired Jan. 26, shortly after sending the email that was then circulated on social media. Screenshots of the email appeared to show Thomas making the inappropriate inquiry in an office-wide email in reply to a message from San Francisco Dist. Atty. Brooke Jenkins.
Images of the email prompted Jenkins’ office to issue a statement to the San Francisco Chronicle clarifying that Jenkins had no relationship with Thomas, and calling the message “misogynistic behavior” that violated the office’s code of conduct.
But according to the complaint, Thomas did not intend to send the inappropriate email to his boss. Instead, Thomas says the message was intended for a fraternity friend, “who was distraught and grieving the death of his father.”
But according to the complaint, just before Thomas planned to send the text message to his friend, he received a calendar invitation from Jenkins.
Instead of sending the message to his friend, Thomas pressed “reply all” and sent the message not just to Jenkins, but to the entire staff at the district attorney’s office.
Immediately after sending the message, Thomas sent another office-wide email apologizing and trying to explain the mistake, according to the suit.
“While texting back and forth with my fraternity brother I sent a very inappropriate email,” the message read, according to a screenshot that was circulated on X. “I am sincerely sorry and would never do such a thing on purpose.”
Had a brotha who was only other black man in our IT department do the same thing, but he sent a picture get got off Facebook of a women he was seeing in a reply all to everyone in IT and tried to recall the message. I could never look at him the same since all our conversations centered around church and family.
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Images of the email prompted Jenkins’ office to issue a statement to the San Francisco Chronicle clarifying that Jenkins had no relationship with Thomas, and calling the message “misogynistic behavior” that violated the office’s code of conduct.
But according to the complaint, Thomas did not intend to send the inappropriate email to his boss. Instead, Thomas says the message was intended for a fraternity friend, “who was distraught and grieving the death of his father.”
But according to the complaint, just before Thomas planned to send the text message to his friend, he received a calendar invitation from Jenkins.
Instead of sending the message to his friend, Thomas pressed “reply all” and sent the message not just to Jenkins, but to the entire staff at the district attorney’s office.
Immediately after sending the message, Thomas sent another office-wide email apologizing and trying to explain the mistake, according to the suit.
“While texting back and forth with my fraternity brother I sent a very inappropriate email,” the message read, according to a screenshot that was circulated on X. “I am sincerely sorry and would never do such a thing on purpose.”
Had a brotha who was only other black man in our IT department do the same thing, but he sent a picture get got off Facebook of a women he was seeing in a reply all to everyone in IT and tried to recall the message. I could never look at him the same since all our conversations centered around church and family.
He was fired over an email that asked the D.A. about her panties. He said it was a mistake
Jovan Thomas, a former victims advocate with the San Francisco district attorney's office, was fired after he sent an office email reply asking "What color panties you have on." Thomas is now suing the DA and her office.
www.latimes.com
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