Tag: #NYPD
Posters of Megan Rapinoe vandalized with homophobic slurs after World Cup victory
Posters of soccer star Megan Rapinoe were defaced in New York City with homophobic slurs.
The posters in the NYC subway showed Rapinoe in her U.S. Soccer Women’s National Team uniform with the phrase “Dream with us,” meant to celebrate the team’s World Cup victory.
Police said that eight posters around the Bryant Park subway station in Manhattan were defaced with homophobic messages on Monday, just days before Rapinoe and her teammates came to New York for a ticker tape parade.
“Hate...
50 years later, NYPD finally apologizes for raiding Stonewall Inn
50 years after it sparked a worldwide movement for LGBTQ rights, the New York Police Department has apologized for raiding the Stonewall Inn. The Stonewall Riots, as they came to be known after queer people fought back, throwing rocks, bottles and bricks, torching cars, and filling the streets, are known as one of the seminal events in the fight for full LGBTQ equality.
New York police commissioner James P. O’Neill apologized on behalf of the force during a safety briefing...
Should NYPD Apologize For Stonewall Riots?
New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson (screen capture)Is it ever too late to apologize?
The producers of WorldPride 2019 | Stonewall 50 have publicly asked for the New York City Police Department to officially apologize for the violent police raid at the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969.
The brutal raids in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, led to what has become known as the Stonewall Uprising as drag...
