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| Subject: Fifty years after Stonewall, barbaric New York poLICE apologize for the raid Thu Jun 06, 2019 9:09 pm | |
| Fifty years after the historic Stonewall riots, the New York Police Department apologized to the LGBT community for its role in the violence. "The actions taken by the NYPD [at Stonewall] were wrong, plain and simple," police commissioner James O'Neill said Thursday during a Pride Month safety briefing.
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- Watch as @NYPDONeill makes a statement today about the events at the Stonewall Inn, 50 years ago. #Stonewall50 #WorldPride2019 #Pride2019 pic.twitter.com/LBAMPoXCLi
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) June 6, 2019 He called the frequent harassment of LGBT men and women and laws that prohibited same-sex sexual relations "discriminatory and oppressive" and apologized on behalf of the department to the audience's applause. The June 1969 uprising that began at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village is largely considered to have spurred the gay rights movement, after police raided the gay bar and patrons resisted arrest, sparking a six-day protest. The first Pride parade was hosted on Stonewall's one-year anniversary. O'Neill ended his remarks by vowing the same discrimination would never happen to New New York's LGBT community again
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/06/us/stonewall-nypd-apology-trnd/index.html _________________ Anarcho-Capitalist, AnCaps Forum, Ancapolis, OZschwitz Contraband “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”-- Max Stirner "Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann |
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