NYPD cops again banned from marching in Pride parade while in uniform
The NYPD cops were again prohibited from walking in uniform in the annual parade of the city’s pride, decision police commissioner Jessica Tisch, said on Friday “deeply offensive” and that conflicts with the members of the inclusiveness of the LGTBQ-Plus community fought to realize.
The organizer, Heritage of Pride, about two weeks ago, informed the NYPD, including the Gay Office Action League, or goal, that he was continuing his ban for a fourth consecutive year.
Tisch said she was shocked by the decision, given to previous dialogue, she and the DET. Brian Downey, president of Goal, had with official Heritage of Pride.
“I was very clear with the heritage of pride that his exclusion is unacceptable,” said Tisch at a press conference held to discuss the security of the parade. “And I will continue to be frank on this subject until the heritage of the rights of pride is not bad … because this march is not to hide who you are.
“It’s about being visible.”
The spokesman for the heritage of pride, Chris Piedmont, said that the group had an unarmed policy to which the objective would not agree.
“To be clear,” said Piedmont, “the objective is welcome to March unarmed like all the other contingents and we invite them to join us while we are walking to protect young Trans, defending complete equality and keeping us at the proud of the attacks with which our community is confronted.”
The ban was announced for the first time in 2021, when demonstrations in reaction to the murder of the minnesota George Floyd man by police generated a wave of anti-cul feelings in New York. But it is rooted in the trauma that many members of the LGBTQ + community have known in the treatment of the police for years – returning to the Stonewall Riot of 1969, which was triggered by a police raid at the now famous Gay Gay of Greenwich Village. The protests that followed are considered to be the birth of the Homosexual Rights Movement.
“We respect and recognize that this trauma is real,” said Downey. “But this policy does not create security. It creates friction and fiction, the one where queer officers disappear while the same institution is invited to secure walking.
“We believe that pride should make room for everyone, in particular those that have been held at the intersection of identification and service – and that includes us.”
Mayor Adams, at the same press conference as Tisch, said that he did not understand “the logic” of the ban on a group whose very role is to protect those who work in the parade.
He said when he came back when he was a cop, he was objective when he was fighting for equity within the police service, but that he will not boycott the parade because many in the LGBTQ + community want him to participate.
Tisch said there were no credible threats to the parade, but that, taking into account the increased state of the city, can expect to see more police presence than usual, including more officers and drones as well as more sanitation trucks to block intersections.
The parade starts at 11 a.m. on Sunday and runs 1.8 miles, from Fifth Ave. and 25th St. to 8th Street, then dates back to the seventh avenue and W. 14th St.
