An investigation is underway at the Department of Education after an employee’s office was vandalized last week.
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos called on Federal Protective Services “for a comprehensive investigation” of “an incident involving an employee’s personal belongings on the third floor,” according to a statement from Department of Education spokesperson Angela Morabito.
No one was injured and no suspect has been named, Federal Protective Services spokesperson Rob Sperling told Fox News, but an employee’s “figurines and pictures” were damaged.
Citing unnamed sources, NBC News reported that the employee was an African-American woman hired as a “diversity change agent” to provide diversity training for staffers, and that her vandalized belongings included African art figurines with their heads and limbs detached and a poster of desegregation icon Ruby Bridges ripped from the wall.
The alleged incident happened around noon last Tuesday while the employee was away from her workspace, according to Fox News.
The Department of Education had not confirmed those reports or responded to an inquiry from Diverse by Monday evening.
Last Friday, Morabito told NBC News: “Because this is an ongoing law-enforcement matter, it is inappropriate for us to comment any further on specifics.”
