Former Houston Texans security coordinator Jeff Pope filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleging Brian Gaine, the team's general manager until he was dismissed last week, "targeted" African Americans when firing employees during his tenure.
"It appeared, and I believe, that he was targeting all minorities in leadership positions and was set to replace them with non-African Americans. Which he did," Pope, who is African American, wrote in a complaint obtained by A.J. Perez of USA Today. Pope listed eight other black employees fired since Gaine was hired in January 2018.