Suspended the same afternoon she flagged a supervisor's safety breach, her suit claims

A security firm handed a civil rights agency video labeled as a worker breaking safety rules. The lawsuit says it showed someone else.

That is the central claim in a lawsuit filed against Allied Universal in federal court in Colorado on July 2, 2026. A former security guard alleges the company fired her because of her race, sex, and disability, then retaliated after she reported safety problems on site. She is representing herself.

The worker, who is African American, joined a Denver-area post in July 2023 and was let go in November 2024, according to the filing. She says her record was clean until a workplace eye injury in August 2024 that required surgery and medical leave. She filed a workers' compensation claim, and the complaint says her managers were aware of both the injury and her medical status.

Events moved quickly that fall, the filing says. In late October 2024, she sent a written complaint objecting to being left to staff a post alone while colleagues were grouped together elsewhere. Weeks later, a manager wrote her up for an unauthorized break - on a day the complaint says was her scheduled day off, when she was not on site. A regional HR manager then emailed to confirm the write-up was invalid and withdrawn, according to the filing.

Hours later, the same manager confronted her about not wearing safety goggles inside the security post, the complaint says. She responded by...

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