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Vivint CEO ‘deeply disturbed’ by allegations that employees built racist fort

The CEO of Vivint Solar says he is “deeply disturbed” by allegations that several of his employees were involved in a pattern of racial harassment at a company warehouse in California.

In a lawsuit filed Monday in California Superior Court in Sacramento County, Teshawn Solomon, who is black, said white supervisors called him a racial epithet and compared him to a monkey. The lawsuit also claims that white employees used cardboard boxes to build a protective fort around their desks that was spray-painted with the words “white only.”

“I want to firmly state that Vivint Solar has a zero-tolerance policy for racial discrimination and harassment in the workplace,” the company’s CEO, David Bywater, said in a statement Thursday.