OAKLAND — A former aide to Councilwoman Desley Brooks filed a lawsuit against her and the city on Monday, painting the elected official as an abusive boss who told him to deliver money from farmers’ market vendors directly to her.

Sidney Wilson, who worked for Brooks from July 2016 until he resigned in October 2017, said in a lawsuit filed in Alameda County Superior Court that Brooks forced him to illegally manage the Millsmont Farmer’s Market in East Oakland.

His lawsuit includes two text strings as exhibits, one from Brooks and the other from her sister discussing collection of the money. The East Oakland farmers market is supposed to be managed by a nonprofit.

“Where is the money bag? Make sure it’s dropped at my house no later than 3:30 p.m. today,” Wilson claims Brooks texted him on Aug. 26, 2017.

Brooks has not responded to an email sent late Monday. Brooks is up for re-election and is facing four opponents.

The suit seeks $3 million in punitive damages against Brooks. It alleges wrongful termination, labor code violations, assault, battery, emotional distress and negligence. City attorney spokesman Alex Katz said the office could not comment until it was served with the suit and had time to review it.

Wilson’s suit is the latest legal trouble for Brooks. His attorney, Charles Bonner, also represented former Black Panther leader Elaine Brown in her successful case against the councilwoman. The city was forced to pay $2 million after a jury in December reached a verdict that Brooks committed elder abuse against Brown for pushing her down inside a Jack London Square barbecue restaurant in 2015.

Brooks, who was ordered to personally pay $75,000 to Brown, filed a claim earlier this month against the City Attorney’s Office, alleging attorneys there botched the case.

In May, the Oakland Public Ethics Commission announced it is investigating whether Brooks violated ethics rules by failing to report money she took from the farmers’ market, as first alleged by Wilson in a claim filed in April. Brooks in a June letter to a resident said the market would be “indefinitely paused,” citing low attendance and competition from other markets.

Under a city resolution, nonprofit OCCUR was solely responsible for running the East Oakland market.

According to the lawsuit, Brooks “insisted, demanded and coerced Mr. Wilson into collecting money from the vendors and turning the collected funds over to her, with no proper accounting to OCCUR.

“There were no receipts; no documentation of which vendors paid what amount; no bookkeeping of funds used for costs and expenses for the Farmers’ Market,” the suit said.

Wilson further alleges Brooks’ threatened him by saying, “if you tell anyone, you will regret it.”

The Pittsburg resident said Brooks routinely yelled and cursed at him, threatened to fire him in March 2017 after he mixed up her take-out dinner order, made him wait outside in the rain for school children to arrive for an October 2016 field trip and pinched him while serving food at an event. He described himself as a “go fetch boy” employee.

In addition to his own claims, Wilson’s suit contains much of the same allegations found in Brown’s lawsuit. This includes calling other council members derogatory names, alleging pushing a city staffer out of a closed-door City Council meeting in 2005-06 and assaulting Brown in 2015.

“The people must stop her abuse since the city will not,” Bonner said Monday evening. “It’s sad Mr. Wilson had to suffer her abuse daily.”