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KW writes: The New York Police were really caught red-handed in a sample of their systemic, business-as-usual, prejudice and bullying.
Background story, The Councilman explaining what happened that day: here.
(exerpt from) Daily Politics/NY Daily News
City Councilman Jumaane Williams: NYPD Lying About West Indian Day Parade Incident
by Celeste Katz/Erin Einhorn 9/6/2011
A city councilman detained by police at the West Indian Day parade said today that it wouldn’t have happened if he had been white — and denounced what he called a “bald-faced lie” from the NYPD’s top spokesman.
Erin Einhorn reports:
“Some comments were made by the NYPD saying that a punch was thrown,” said Councilman Jumaane Williams (D-Brooklyn) who was handcuffed by police along with a top aide to Public Advocate Bill de Blasio while entering a restricted area on his way to a Brooklyn Museum reception after the parade.
“That saddens me,” Williams said of the a statement released late yesterday by NYPD spokesman Paul Browne, who said a police captain at the scene had been punched by an “unknown individual.”
“Telling a bald-faced lie, particularly to the people that they’re lying about disturbs me,” Williams said. “How can we take seriously what the police will say in the future if they will lie to us about this? I defy the police to find one shred of evidence of any police officer punched in that incident.”
Williams and de Blasio aide Kirsten John Foy held a press conference on the city hall steps to denounce the incident and to call for policy changes in the NYPD…
Williams and Foy were surrounded by a dozen other elected officials at their press conference, including nearly all of the Democrats running for mayor in 2013 — de Blasio, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, City Controller John Liu and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.
All called for an investigation and improvements to NYPD protocol in dealing with young minority men…
“Each and every day, we’re hearing more and more about the violation of civil liberties in this town,” said U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-Brooklyn). “We are quickly moving to an apartheid situation here in the city of New York where we don’t recognize the civil liberties and the civil rights of all New Yorkers.”
She noted that she was considering taking her concerns to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Full story, and some video of part of the incident, at The NY Daily News political blog: here.
Related story at onthewilderside: NYCLU: new-stop-and-frisk-numbers-shows-nypd-targets-innocent-minorities
Filed under: News Tagged: | Bill De Blasio, Jumaane Williams, Jumane Williams, Kirsten John Foy, NYC, NYC politics, NYPD, Police Abuse, West Indian Day Parade
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