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In photo, white supremacist Mayor Bloomberg, a hater of the 2nd and 4th Amendments (and non-whites). Last December, the Huffington Post published some of the Facebook postings:
- One compared working the detail to “ghetto training.”
- Another suggested holding the event at “the zoo.”
- Other postings included: “The safety of cops should be more important than the safety of the animals.”
- “It’s not racist if it’s true.”
- “…if the cops sneeze too loud they get investigated for excessive force, but the ‘civilians’ can run around like savages and there are no repercussions.”
- “Why is everyone calling this a parade? It’s a scheduled riot.”
- “I say have the parade one more year, and when they all gather drop a bomb and wipe them all out.”
The same article noted that, on a message board for police officers, NYPD Rant, some cops supported their colleague’s feelings. One read: “For the record, most of the participants at the West Indies Day Parade are fucking savages who walked out from the jungle 2 minutes ago.”
The annual Labor Day parade has become the city’s biggest cultural festival since it was first held in Brooklyn in 1969. It traverses the streets of Crown Heights, along Eastern Parkway, and typically attracts millions of revelers to celebrate the diverse cultures of the Caribbean islands and features dancers dressed in enormous feathered costumes, lively music and a bounty of West Indian fare.