Knife-wielding migrants are attacking one another and workers on the sprawling Randall’s Island shelter, a former employee claimed in a lawsuit.
Leeanna Alexis says she was terminated after complaining about unsafe circumstances on the 3,000-bed shelter the place a 24-year-old man was fatally stabbed in January and a large brawl erupted final month.
Alexis, 28, “witnessed the occupant/migrant that was stabbed and bleeding,” and referred to as out of labor the subsequent day, fearing for her personal security, based on the Manhattan Supreme Courtroom lawsuit filed towards shelter operator MedRite.
“Medrite permitted knife assaults and different assaults on workers members to happen, permitted occupants of the shelter and/or migrants to bypass safety with knives, and permitted random individuals to return out and in of the shelter with out prioritizing or making certain security,” Alexis stated within the authorized papers.
About 10 days after complaining and asking to switch to the corporate’s decrease Manhattan facility, she was terminated, with Medrite falsely accusing her of a “regarding sample” of not displaying up for work, Alexis alleged.
The ability additionally lacked working warmth within the winter months, stated Alexis, who’s searching for unspecified damages.
Medrite referred messages searching for remark to the town’s Well being and Hospitals, which didn’t instantly remark.
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