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- For years, African-American agents in the Secret Service complained that racism was rampant and that supervisors not only ignored racist incidents but often participated. In recent weeks, when a noose was found in a breakroom used by a Black agent at the Secret Service training facility in Beltsville , Md. , it added new fuel into a longstanding investigation into charges of racial discrimination at the agency. In a federal court filing on Friday, attorneys for 10 African-American Secret Service agents disclosed e-mails shared by supervisors that demeaned Blacks and even joked about assassinating the Rev. Jesse Jackson, whom they refer to as “the Righteous Reverend.”
