How Black NYPD Officers Really Feel About the Floyd Protesters
NEW YORK -- Edwin Raymond, a black lieutenant in the Police Department, heard racial insults -- "Sellout!" and "Uncle Tom!" -- rising above protesters' chants as he helped to control the crowds at recent demonstrations in Brooklyn against police brutality and racism.He said he understood the words were aimed at black officers like him. He tried not to take them personally, but the shouts were particularly painful, he said, because he has long been an outspoken critic of what he sees as racial di
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