NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch ripped organizers of this weekend’s city Pride March for banning LGBT cops from participating in uniform even though the festivities are relying on police for security.
“It is deeply offensive that for the fifth year in a row, the NYPD’s gay officers’ action league is banned from fully participating in the New York City Pride March,” the top cop said during a press briefing Friday.
“It is the height of hypocrisy that uniformed officers are fit to line the parade route and keep everyone safe, but they are unable to march in their own uniform and under their own banner.”
The event organizer, Heritage of Pride, first informed the Gay Officer Action League (GOAL) in 2021 its members would not be allowed to march in the parade during a wave of George Floyd anti-cop sentiment.
The ban was supposed to initially last four years before the organization would reconsider its prohibition.
Det. Brian Downey, president of GOAL, argued the policy makes “queer officers vanish, while the same institution is asked to secure the march.”
“The ones being asked to stay out of sight are us, the gay, the trans, the queer, and our allied officers who have risked everything to serve both this city and this community. It is not about safety, it is about exclusion” Downey said.
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