Source: rachasuk / Getty The city of Bloomfield, New Jersey, the fire dept, the fire chief, and firefighter Walter Coffey are all taking major heat as a result of numerous egregiously racist incidents that targeted Black firefighter Patrick Thomas. According to Fire Law Blog, Thomas has filed a $25 million federal civil rights lawsuit against all of the aforementioned after he was subjected multiple times to the n-word with the hard -er and had a noose shown to him twice.