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SOUNDBITE (English) Ana Arboleda, NYPD seargeant, vice-president for GOAL, Gay Officers Action League Various of NYPD patrol with pride paint jobġ0. "So I'm the current vice president of the Gay Officers Action League and our stand is again, you know, we're disheartened by their decision because at the end of the day, we're part of the community."ĩ.
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But at the end of the day, we're a huge department and call me an optimist, but I don't think every police officer out there is out there to do harm."Ĩ. "Well, you know, again, we cannot deny certain people's experience. And so we have to weigh the need for one group to either wear a uniform for a parade for a couple of hours versus the need of someone who's marginalized feeling safe and welcome."ħ SOUNDBITE (English) Ana Arboleda, NYPD sergeant, vice-president for GOAL, Gay Officers Action League "For many people in the community, that uniform is triggering that creates a sense of being unsafe and unwelcome. SOUNDBITE (English) Andre Thomas, Co-chair, Heritage of Pride NYPD officer holding rifle at pride eventĥ. That gave the police basically the ability to legally harass anybody who's trans just because of the clothing they were wearing."Ħ. There's the 'walking while trans law,' as its called that was just repealed in February. But then you fast forward and there's always been this history of interactions that it's not necessarily been favorable to us. We celebrated that in World Pride in 2013 and the NYPD apologized for that. "Our movement started as a movement against police brutality. You can still participate, just not be in uniform and you can still represent your identity as a police officer, just not in that way."ģ. "I think for us it was a fair compromise.