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Mar. 30, 2023
Former Tesla worker tells jurors racism he says he experienced
Owen Diaz tearfully said that one of his biggest regrets in life was recommending his son, Demetric Diaz, join Tesla.
A former Tesla worker testified Wednesday that he enjoyed working at the Fremont factory and took pride in seeing the innovative automobiles created there driving on local streets – until a barrage of racist slurs being used daily scarred him.
“It made me feel less than a man; it made me question my worth,” Owen Diaz told a federal jury in San Francisco on the third day of a retrial of the penalty phase of a dis...
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