White NYPD Cops Profile Black Man -- turns out he is a NYPD Police Chief

[ChicagoJag]

At least one cop has been disciplined for ordering the NYPD's highest-ranking uniformed black officer out of his auto while the three-star chief was off-duty and parked in Queens, the Daily News has learned.

"How you can not know or recognize a chief in a department SUV with ID around his neck, I don't know," a police source said.

Chief Douglas Zeigler, 60, head of the Community Affairs Bureau, was in his NYPD-issued vehicle near a fire hydrant when two plainclothes cops approached on May 2, sources said.

One officer walked up on each side of the SUV at 57th Ave. and Xenia St. in Corona about 7 p.m. and told the driver to roll down the heavily tinted windows, sources said.

What happened next is in dispute ....

Full story here: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local...plainclothes_officers_in_trouble__didnt_.html

 

[buckwheat]

The Brother did say do you know who I am! It probably was racial profiling but he still has to remember that he is a black man in Amerikkka.

 

[JAG89]

It was racial profiling. What was their reason for checking him out the first place?

 

[dacontinent]

It was racial profiling. What was their reason for checking him out the first place?

The problem is that they did not check him out in the first place.

Chief Douglas Zeigler, 60, head of the Community Affairs Bureau, was in his NYPD-issued vehicle near a fire hydrant when two plainclothes cops approached on May 2, sources said.​

That should have been their first check. It is procedure. Had they done that properly, they would not have initiated the incident at all. They would have known who he was.