I worked at a telecommunications company. Our job was to install fiber optic cables underground. There's a man whom the company subcontracts as a backhoe operator. He wears a white hat but essentially has no authority over me. This man i do not like. He's very well known to be a racist. I had gotten into an altercation with him as he sat in his machine. It was noon physical and I was standing 15 feet from the backhoe. There was 4 witnesses. My partner and I, and his 20 year old helper. This man days I threatened him. He asked if what I had said to him was a threat and I replied with a clear NO. Anyways. I got suspended without pay pending an investigation. He did not. A week later I'm fired from my job. My question is..if there were 4 witnesses and half of us agreed with me and half agreed with him, how was it fair that I was suspended and then let go? In a court of law, I would be acquitted.