{"id":250962,"date":"2021-05-16T04:32:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T01:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cops-banned-from-participating-in-nyc-pride-events\/"},"modified":"2021-05-16T04:32:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T01:32:44","slug":"cops-banned-from-participating-in-nyc-pride-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cops-banned-from-participating-in-nyc-pride-events\/","title":{"rendered":"#Cops banned from participating in NYC Pride events"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Cops banned from participating in NYC Pride events<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Police will be banned from participating in New York City Pride events, as organizers say they are seeking to \u201ccreate safer spaces\u201d for \u201cmarginalized groups.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under the new policy, announced Saturday<\/a> by NYC Pride, corrections and law enforcement exhibitors will not be allowed to march in the parade or participate in other events for at least five years.<\/p>\n

Coordinators of the world\u2019s largest gay pride celebration also said they would take steps to reduce NYPD presence at events, by hiring private security and first responders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sense of safety that law enforcement is meant to provide can instead be threatening, and at times dangerous, to those in our community who are most often targeted with excessive force and\/or without reason,\u201d organizers said in a press release.<\/p>\n

\u201cNYC Pride is unwilling to contribute in any way to creating an atmosphere of fear or harm for members of the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Millions of members of the LGBT community flock to the city in June for the world\u2019s landmark gay rights celebration. <\/p>\n

The event began in 1970, to commemorate the Stonewall Uprising a year before, when patrons of a Greenwich Village gay bar rioted against NYPD officers, who were conducting a raid of the then-illegal establishment. <\/p>\n

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NYPD band members perform during the 2017 Pride Parade. <\/figcaption>
David McGlynn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The recent nationwide reckoning of police violence inspired Heritage of Pride, the group that produces the event, to reexamine its relationship with the police \u2014 who were previously invited to march in the parade as it became more mainstream.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis announcement follows many months of conversation and discussion with key stakeholders in the community,\u201d said NYC Pride Co-Chair Andr\u00e9 Thomas.<\/p>\n

Detective Brian Downey, 41, president of the NYPD\u2019s Gay Officers Action League, said hundreds of members of the police department have been marching for nearly four decades in good faith and solidarity with the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cGOAL was embraced by the community because it was viewed as agents of change. This was progress, it wasn\u2019t contention,\u201d Downey told The Post Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Downey said some distrust of the police is \u201cjustified,\u201d but his organization is about \u201cbuilding bridges,\u201d both in the community and at One Police Plaza.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving the courage to go into the institution as a gay or queer person\u2026 you\u2019re going in there with that struggle that is your own identity and you\u2019re bringing it inside that system,\u201d Downey said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have used a position of considerable power \u2026 to open the door for other people that don\u2019t share my same experience and give them a voice at the table.\u201d<\/p>\n

GOAL said it will continue its advocacy on behalf of the community, despite the move to ban them from Pride events.<\/p>\n

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Aiden Budd and Brooke Bukowski, the NYPD\u2019s first openly transgender police officers, march in the 2016 Pride Parade.<\/figcaption>
Donna F. Aceto<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Momentum for the ban had been growing in recent years. In 2019, activists planned an alternative Pride parade in New York that excluded cops. Festivities were canceled last year over coronavirus concerns.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe NYPD is just as bad as it ever was, even if it\u2019s better for some of its employees on the inside,\u201d Reclaim Pride Coalition co-founder Natalie James said at the time. \u201cSo to me that means the NYPD should not be recognized at Pride.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2017, Pride Toronto banned cops from marching in its parade, after lobbying by Black Lives Matter protestors, according to The Daily Hive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The NYPD\u2019s GOAL organization reportedly invited Toronto law enforcement to march side by side with them in the Manhattan parade.<\/p>\n

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NYPD officers march along Fifth Avenue during the 2014 Pride Parade. <\/figcaption>
AP Photo\/Julia Weeks, File<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2025, NYC Pride will review its police participation ban, NYC Pride said. Until then, the NYPD will \u201cprovide first response and security only when absolutely necessary as mandated by city officials,\u201d organizers said.<\/p>\n

The move toward private security raises a host of high stakes liability and insurance issues, and police sources tell The Post that parade organizers are ill equipped to protect millions of revelers in the Village.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what the end game<\/a> is here,\u201d Downey said. \u201cWhen you create an echo chamber and you take a dissenting voice other than the voice of these activists, who don\u2019t want reform they just want abolition.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHow does this work? I think this was a poorly made decision and the execution was even poorer,\u201d the gay NYPD leader said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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