Police Who Detained Councilman Jumaane Williams To Be Disciplined

The New York Police Department has disciplined three officers who may have racially profiled, then detained a member of city council and another city official, The Wall Street Journal reports. Councilman Jumaane Williams (D-Brooklyn), and Kirsten John Foy, both of whom are black, said they had police permission to walk on a blocked-off sidewalk this summer while on their way to a post-West Indian Day parade event at the Brooklyn Museum.Police officers, apparently unaware that the two were city officials, confronted Williams and Foy.

 

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