Restaurant owner defends against strip-search case

In the case of a northeast Georgia restaurant facing a lawsuit over allegations managers strip-searched black employees … the parent company says it’s done nothing wrong. The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued New Capital Dimensions of Millegeville, which owns the Krystal restaurant in Winder near Athens. The suit claims that in 2005 white managers forced three black employees to submit to strip searches to prove they hadn't stolen money from a cash register. The lawsuit says one employee never returned to work and that others were fired for complaining about racial profiling.