To the Editor: Re “A Misstep by Organizers of Pride” (editorial, May 19): I have to wholeheartedly disagree with your perception of the ban on uniformed police groups at New York’s Pride celebration as a misstep.
This is an appropriate and timely response to the collective trauma of a nation dealing with a year of reckoning regarding police brutality.
For those of us who faced officers in riot gear, who were tear-gassed and shot at with rubber bullets less than a year ago while kneeling with our hands up in support of our Black community members, we respectfully ask officers to stay away.