A post shared by Salah Czapary for Ward 1 (@czapary) Meet Salah Czapary. He’s a former officer for the Metropolitan Police Department of D.C.
who is now running for D.C. Council. He’s also gay. Oh, and he knows how to work a hula hoop!“It was always a childhood dream of mine to be a police officer,” Czapary tells Metro Weekly. “I was obsessed with Walker, Texas Ranger as a kid.
I think part of that is the way we portray police in our movies and TV shows. They’re people that are problem solvers and they’re the good guys that help people.
That was always very attractive to me.”Czapary, whose mother is Palestinian and father is Hungarian, served as an officer from 2016 until earlier this year when he announced his run for office.