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New York Gay Pride Parade's 'Shameful' Ban of Gay Police Officers

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The New York City Police union is blasting the city’s gay pride parade officials for banning gay police officers from participating in the event.

Detective Brian Downey, the president of the New York Police Department’s Gay Officers Action League slammed the New York City Pride Parade’s decision to un-invite gay police officers.

“Their response to activist pressure is to take the low road by preventing their fellow community members from celebrating their identities and honoring the shared legacy of the Stonewall Riots,” Detective Downey said, according to Fox News.

The detective also said it was “demoralizing” for the pride parade to ban gay cops. He also attacked the pride officials for calling his men “law enforcement exhibitors” instead of referring to them as New York Police officers.

“The idea of officers being excluded is disheartening and runs counter to our shared values of inclusion and tolerance,” Detective Sophia Mason added. “That said, we’ll still be there to ensure traffic safety and good order during this huge, complex event.”

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The gay Fire Department group also slammed the pride organization’s exclusion of the police.

“The sense of safety that law enforcement is meant to provide can instead be threatening, and at times dangerous, to those in our community who are most often targeted with excessive force and/or without reason,” the pride group said in a statement.

The pride parade will still be held only online this year due to New York’s continued wild panic over the coronavirus.

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