Of Course the NYPD Is Defending the Commanding Officer Caught Ordering Subordinate to Target Minorities

Why wouldn't they?

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On Saturday, everyone from the ACLU to the NAACP and Al Sharpton's National Action Network gathered to demand the suspension of the NYPD commanding officer caught on tape ordering an officer to target young, black males. To no surprise, the NYPD is defending their own. 

NYPD spokesman Paul Browne stood behind Deputy Inspector Christopher McCormack, writing "Deputy Inspector McCormack did what a good commander is supposed to do. Direct officers under his command to protect the public" in an email. He elaborated:

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The context of McCormack's comments highlights the pressure that officers are under to meet quotas imposed by union delegates and their commanding officers. In other words, everything you saw on The Wire. McCormack's comments were recorded by officer Pedro Serrano, who told a federal court that "stop-and-frisk" troubled him because his superiors had asked him "to do something that’s illegal, I believe, and I was worried."

[via Gothamist]

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