Hard to imagine in a post 9/11 era that building security would be used for anything other than building security.  Hallway cameras at HUD instead of keeping watch on the halls were used by a supervisor to instead harass black personnel.  The cameras were turned from monitoring the hallways to monitoring personnel sitting at their desks.  As a nice bonus for one individual, being gone from the desk too long meant having annual leave docked!  This is only a tiny fraction of what led to the EEOC complaint of Wesley Phillips.  I am stunned that security officers would so disregard building security as to use the cameras for anything other than the intended purpose.

From an employee perspective, can you imagine sitting at your desk and hearing the camera turning knowing the controller is in the hands of your supervisor then having to sit and work while the camera remained pointed at you instead of down the hallway?  Yet, that is the environment in which Wesley Phillips had to work.

And that is not all.  Building security were instructed to monitor when he and others entered and left the building.  Not enough that the hallways within the supervisor's control had equipment mis-used putting security at risk, but then take up the time of those responsible for site security with nonsense and make them tools of your harassment game.

And what do these lovely people make off the taxpayers?  More than most of us I can tell you!  A good estimate for the camera nazi is $150,000/yr.  As a taxpayer, I'm thinking 30K a year is plenty for a camera spinner that can't think of other things more important to do than harass the black employees.  I can't imagine a manager at my corporation at that level making that kind of money doing such a thing.  THEY WOULD BE FIRED ON THE SPOT!!!  HUD security doesn't seem to be taking the job seriously!

Wesley Phillips was cleared at top secret clearance for security detail surrounding the President of the United States, and HUD supervisors feel the need to divert building security to watch him working at his desk?  Instead of monitoring the halls?

The Wesley Phillips situation was mediated successfully through EEOC and top level HUD supervisors, but little did they know the mutiny occurring amongst those responsible for the EEOC complaint.  No it was not finished because while said supervisors signed on the dotted line behind the scenes a witchhunt investigation of Wesley was going on to find something to pin on him to ruin his career.  The best they could do after ransacking his office, his computer, and checking his past job was to say he got the dates wrong on when he carried his HUD issued weapons.  So those were charged as felonies and at least one bogus document invented for the attorney general as supporting data along with 1 or a few witness intimidations to make the bogus charges stick.  Wesley Phillips has been lynched, and the environment at HUD that enabled that to happen is despicable.  Those bogus felony charges must be eliminated.  They can't be allowed to stand.  And as for those who think security cameras in govt buildings in Washington D.C. are for their personal use to harass the staff, why are we the taxpayers still paying them a salary?

Shaun Donovan must make this right.  It is his organization now, so he is the only one who can do it.  Until the leader stands up and makes it abundantly clear that the behavior will not be tolerated, it will continue.