Rockmond Dunbar Sues Disney For Discrimination Over Vaccine Mandate That Led To ‘9-1-1’ Exit
deadline.comRockmond Dunbar, who abruptly exited his role on Fox’s hit drama series over Covid-19 vaccine mandates on the show, has sued the series’ production company 20th Television and its parent Disney claiming the studio engaged in discrimination, including mocking his religious beliefs, barring him from the set and hampering his ability to get other work.Dunbar, who played Michael, the ex-husband of Angela Bassett’s character, on the drama series from its inception, was abruptly written off in November.
That came after he had requested a medical exemption and later a religious exemption from the Covid protocols on the show that require all actors to be vaccinated.Dunbar’s requests were reviewed by Disney and were rejected, he said in the suit, filed Thursday in U.S.
District Court.“In retaliation, Defendants summarily terminated Mr. Dunbar’s employment agreement, and refused to pay him the hundreds of thousands of dollars that are still owed to him,” the lawsuit reads. “Then, wanting to make an example out of Mr.
Dunbar, he believes that Defendants wrongfully leaked negative information to the media about his departure from ‘9-1-1’ including that he sought both religious and medical exemptions that were denied.
