The family of Ronald Silver II, a Baltimore sanitation worker who died in August 2024, is preparing a civil rights lawsuit against Baltimore, the city’s Department of Public Works, and city officials over the city’s alleged policy of forcing its workers to toil in unsafe working conditions, particularly those with criminal records.
Silver died from hyperthermia, likely due to overheating while on his trash route according to a state report.
According to WBAL, a letter the family’s attorney, Thiru Vignarajah, sent to those parties spells out a policy akin to slave labor for its workers…