Thursday 25 December 2014

Off duty, black cops in New York feel threat from fellow police

Off duty, black cops in New York feel threat from fellow police


From the dingy donut shops of Manhattan to the cloistered police watering holes in Brooklyn, a number of black NYPD officers say they have experienced the same racial profiling that cost Eric Garner his life. Garner, a 43-year-old black man suspected of illegally peddling loose cigarettes, died in July after a white officer put him in a chokehold. On Saturday, those tensions escalated after a black gunman, who wrote of avenging the black deaths on social media...

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