*Tracey Carver-Allbritton, one of two white women who were allegedly involved in the initial fight at the McKinney, TX pool, has been placed on administrative leave by her employer, CoreLogic Inc., reports Daily Kaos.
The initial fight led to police being called to the scene, and the viral video of a 14-year-old African-American girl being slammed into the ground by McKinney Police Officer Eric Casebolt.Â
Video of the initial fight, which has since surfaced online, shows an adult white woman and an African American teen girl in mid-fight, with each holding the other’s hair attempting to throw punches. A group of black teens initially watch the fight, but eventually try to separate the two.
Another woman, now known as Tracey-Carver Allbritton, seems to be trying to break up the fight, but ends up throwing punches at the younger girl’s head. After a few seconds the fight is broken up and both parties go their separate ways.
Watch below:
A Twitter campaign was launched by Dallas Communities Organizing for Change (a group fighting for racial justice and police reform) to find the two women involved, and to inquire why they hadn’t been arrested, or at least questioned for their role in the fight.
Eventually, a Facebook profile linked the second woman in the video to  Allbritton, and to her apparent employer listed on the account, Bank of America.
.@bankofamerica Is this your employee Tracey Carver-Allbritton attacking a child & using racial slurs?#McKinneyPolice pic.twitter.com/VUTNFBJ1XU
— DallasforChange (@DallasforChange) June 8, 2015
The tweet spread like wild fire and eventually forced Bank of America to conduct its own investigation. Contrary to what is listed on her Facebook profile, Bank of America released a statement online confirming that in fact she didn’t work for them, but that she did work for one of their vendors.
We’ve concluded our investigation and the woman identified is not a Bank of America employee but works with a vendor company (1/2)
— Bank of America (@BofA_News) June 9, 2015
That vendor company is CoreLogic Inc, a major financial data and analytics firm closely aligned with Bank of America. CoreLogic has been providing various financial and home loan services to Bank of America since at least 2011, which is around the time the U.S. Department of Justice settled a $335 million suit for racially discriminating against African Americans and Latinos in home mortgage lending.
Dallas Communities Organizing for Change co-founder Stephen Benavides, writing for dailykos.com, wonders if Allbritton is directly involved in deciding the issuance of loans:
While CoreLogic Inc. seems not to be directly responsible for the decision on whether or not to issue home mortgage loans or other financial products to individuals, they provide a comprehensive lender profile and all necessary information needed to make the decision. This includes providing services such as credit profiles, credit reports, home mortgage default services, and analytics on multifamily leasing among others.
According to a statement given to the Dallas Morning News, “CoreLogic does not condone violence, discrimination or harassment and takes conduct that is inconsistent with our values and expectations very seriously. As a result of these pending allegations, we have placed the employee in question on administrative leave while further investigations take place.” Several calls to confirm if this was actually the case have yet to be answered by CoreLogic Inc.
This is seen as preliminary good news by some, but the question still remains as to what her role exactly is with the financial data firm, whether or not she has direct decision making authority over the issuance of loans, and if so, how many African Americans and Latino’s may have been denied based on her personal racial bias.
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