Former Cherry Creek Schools board member Terry Bates resigned after the district received three written complaints alleging that he asked a group of people if they came to the United States from Mexico with a “coyote,” according to documents obtained by The Denver Post.
Bates resigned unexpectedly last month during a Board of Education meeting at which his colleagues said he had made racist remarks. At the time, the school board did not reveal specifics about the comments that resulted in Bates’ resignation.
Documents obtained through a Colorado Open Records Act request by The Post show that on April 20 — four days before Bates resigned — three people filed complaints with Cherry Creek General Counsel Sonja McKenzie. The complaints alleged that Bates asked people sitting at a table with him at an event about their ethnicity and where they were from — and then inquired about their use of a “coyote.”…