Subject: NY housing authority employees to wear orange vests - so they don’t get shot by poLICE Sun Jun 07, 2015 2:12 am
The New York Housing Authority is so worried about their workers being targeted by the police that they want them to wear bright orange vests. They say it will make them more visible, but others say it’s to stop them being shot by “trigger-happy” cops. The move comes after a law enforcement officer fatally shot a maintenance crew worker, who was going about his everyday job. The man, father of two Akai Gurley, was unarmed and was in a poorly lit stairwell of a Brooklyn housing complex when he accidentally startled police officer Peter Liang, who opened fire by mistake. “[The elevator workers] were basically told the reason was because of recent incidents where cops had pulled a gun on a caretaker and a supervisor on the roof of a housing project,” a source told the New York Post.