almost immediately thereafter plaintiff file his first complaint of discrimination at that point an investigation was conducted and the evidence suggests that that investigation wasn't completed until i believe mid october was when the letter from mr parks went out inviting proceeding in a cautious cautious manner again referring to their feet ron there's just nothing in the record there's no evidence of any racial comments by graun if his original complain evidence the record of retaliation the plaintiff seems to be able to point to is the timing now an important key element to retaliation his knowledge of the protected activity for defendant davi record it includes the open display of a kook klux klan poster by one of bell's training sergeants and more egregious to perhaps an open discussion at roll call in which carl bell the only black sheriff's nations in his perfect white appearance and also speculated how that deputy with look with the white hood over his head with high holes cut out sergeant i'm sorry carl bell told this jury about how that made him feel and how intimidated he felt at that time when he was in this training program the other racist examples that are in the record in that support this jury's verdict not only for discrimination but for retaliation include the fact that carl complained that his training deputy davis was trying to teach him how to do no probable cause stops based on the race of the driver in car wouldn't cooperate with that and so he was subsequently downgraded and it purports to represent the daily evaluations that carl bell received in his training program before we look at that i think it's important to understand that carl was a successful law enforcement officer before he ca supplemental excerpt of record and he has passed in scores and they're in fact passed all five phases of that training program and moved on to be an independent deputy things changed dramatically for carl bell he did but he never got an n r t score which is their equivalent of a failing score which says not responding to training but on that day for the first time in his eleven year law enforcement career he got th scores the evidence was that i'm now a day deputy davis came out of that meeting gave carl bell an angry look and stormed off and that's evidence from which the jury could infer that one of the topics of conversation and that may twenty second meeting was well the other evidence was that out of that meeting supposedly to discuss her all those problems he was never informed of the subject matter no meeting memorandum was generated the training program requirements were that some documentation had to in the record then he gave most finished his training with carl bell on may first and he rates karl very highly on officer safety i'm knowledge of criminal law doesn't report writing he writes glowing commentary quickly without any or any intervening contact but after the complaint that carl made and june twelfth deputy davis decides that carl bell should be terminated in fact he writes a multi page single spaced memorandum the next day these defendants all get together and say you should be fired well what happened in between what happened in between is his complaint that there's race discrimination going on in the sheriff's office and there's  and and i don't like the criticism of talking black there's racism and i object to it that's what happens that's what changes the change the outcome of this case and i'd like to address i'm testified he never read bell's discrimination complaint that's in the transcript and that was what the jury heard the sheriff who said it was an important matter to fire carl bell and he knew that he had been the only black deputy justification for his behavior but he said he also relied on this or i'll review well the evidence was kept in girl bear ordered these so called independent reviewers to come in and look at the after training program and on  calendar he notes are that he heads up well the jury heard that and the jury could infer from that that these so called independent reviewers were not all that independent and in any event they never generated a report of their review given right to what they're supposed to find and why didn't sheriff lott have to read the independent investigation did he already know what the outcome was going to be if you already know that they were going to find that none of this w s you know justified that it was a pre determined outcome the other important thing i think is that the documentation is so inconsistent even those reviewers from marion county looked at deputy davis records and said you know this right that he but he's asked you know why are these there are these conflicting terming why aren't they signed and he said i don't know i don't have an explanation but the jury heard and saw a captain grow merriest calendar and lieutenant were concerned about documenting what was happening so you know i think there are missteps that the defendants made in their efforts to fire carl bell gave the jury more than substantial evidence and i think what's also telling is that before the jury rendered its verdict it sent in no doubt to judge the elders and it wanted to know how he was going to protect them from retaliation by these police officers essentially they said and then they said in the news article they retaliated once they could do again so they had a real fear and there's evidence in this record to justify that fear there's evidence of falsified documentation there's evidence of inconsistent explanations and we know from reeves past and you know when we are told that this pattern