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Labor/Employment

May 18, 2021

Investigating racial bias complaints in the age of ‘cancel culture’

For nearly a decade, there has been a groundswell of cultural and social movements seeking to rectify racial injustice, largely fueled by social media.

Daphne Pierre Bishop

Partner
CDF Labor Law LLP

Phone: (213) 612-6300

Email: dbishop@cdflaborlaw.com

Daphne is chair of the Internal Investigations Practice Group at CDF Labor Law LLP, a California-based labor and employment law firm. Daphne has represented companies with California workforces for nearly two decades. Her experience advising and defending small to Fortune 500 companies in all industries against the gamut of employment-related claims offers her a unique advantage in assisting companies prevent, investigate and resolve employee and institutional misconduct. Her practice focuses on providing internal investigation services as a neutral third-party investigator or a strategic advisor.

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For nearly a decade, there has been a groundswell of cultural and social movements seeking to rectify racial injustice, largely fueled by social media. The Black Lives Matter movement started in 2013 after George Zimmerman, a self-proclaimed neighborhood watchman, was acquitted for killing Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager, in Florida. BLM gained broad support in 2020, after video of a Minnesota police officer killing an unarmed Black man named George Floyd be...

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