Former CBS Producer Claims Only People of Color Were Laid Off in Network Shakeup [Video]

Former associate producer Trey Sherman says he was laid off from CBS News on Thursday, and the process appears to him far from random.

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In a viral TikTok video, Sherman says, “I just got laid off from my job at CBS. And every producer on my team who got laid off is a person of color. Every person who gets to stay and will be relocated within the company is a white person.”

He adds that during his layoff meeting, he asked if relocation within the company was a possibility. The executive responded: “We advocated to try to get you relocated somewhere, and we couldn’t.”

Later, as Sherman investigated the situation, he discovered that every white colleague was protected.

Sherman says, “So I went one by one to my white colleagues. Are you getting laid off? No…So I went back up to his office and I told him, I think you lied to my face.”

According to Sherman, the executive eventually admitted he had made the decision of who stayed, explaining: “I chose to keep the people who I had worked with before.” Sherman responded: “You said that you couldn’t get us relocated, only to find out that you were able to get some people relocated, and they all happen to be white. Am I supposed to believe that that’s a coincidence?” The exec allegedly replied, “Yes.”

CBS News and its parent company, Paramount Skydance, have not publicly responded to Sherman’s claims.