{"id":18668,"date":"2017-08-08T19:03:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T19:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/?p=18668"},"modified":"2017-08-13T15:14:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T15:14:51","slug":"oklahoma-dads-file-federal-civil-rights-lawsuit-home-burned-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2017\/08\/oklahoma-dads-file-federal-civil-rights-lawsuit-home-burned-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma dads file federal lawsuit after family home is burned to the ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/RandyGamelMedler.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/RandyGamelMedler.jpg 600w, https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/RandyGamelMedler-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can help this family by donating to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/proudparenting\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe fundraiser<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/KWTV.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=709103685;hostDomain=www.news9.com;playerWidth=630;playerHeight=355;isShowIcon=true;clipId=13582399;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay'><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news9.com\" title=\"News9.com - Oklahoma City, OK\">News9.com &#8211; Oklahoma City, OK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Randy Gamel-Medler, his husband and their 7-year-old adopted African-American son moved to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hitchcock,_Oklahoma\" target=\"_blank\">Hitchcock, Oklahoma<\/a> in August 2016. Roughly a month later, Gamel-Medler was threatened by a town trustee at a town council meeting after he learned that Gamel-Medler, a white man, had a son who is African-American, according to the complaint. \u201cWhat&#8217;s going to happen when your house burns down and we don&#8217;t send out the fire trucks?\u201d Meradith Norris, a defendant in the lawsuit, asked. Town officials ignored the police report Gamel-Medler filed.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Gamel-Medler was assaulted by defendant Jonita Pauls Jacks, who called him a \u201cf****** queer\u201d and threatened his son, saying that she was going to grab his son and \u201crip his n***** head off and sh** down his throat.\u201d The town deputy sheriff refused to allow Gamel-Medler to file a police report and chalked up the incident to free speech.<\/p>\n<p>On May 28, the complaint describes an incident in which Gamel-Medler called the sheriff&#8217;s office to report a burglary after he heard glass breaking in his garage. He then called the fire department to report a fire in his garage. But the fire department, which is located one block from Gamel-Medler&#8217;s house, failed to arrive in time to save his home. As his house burned, four of the defendants, including Mayor Edsall, looked on, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Gamel-Medler quit his job and moved his family out of Hitchcock.<\/p>\n<p>Nine defendants are named in the lawsuit &#8211; including Rick Edsall, mayor of Hitchcock and Tony Almaguer, sheriff of Blaine County.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/nbc-out\/after-house-burns-down-gay-oklahoma-man-files-federal-lawsuit-n790736\" target=\"_blank\">NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can help this family by donating to our GoFundMe fundraiser. 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