Black Detectives Say White Cops Racially Profiled Them

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Hate crime task force detectives Stephon Garland and Gregory Wilson, who are black, and detective Faisal Khan, who is Pakistani, were going door-to-door in Gravesend, Brooklyn, canvassing residents to investigate a possible hate crime. They were each wearing suits, and soon enough 15 members of the Shomrim Jewish Community patrol pulled up, accusing them of impersonating police officers. Things got heated, and white uniformed cops from the 61st Precinct arrived at the scene to handle the situation. And handle it they did!

The cops demanded that the detectives show them their police ID cards, and Wilson and Kahn complied, explaining that they were with the task force. But Officer Craig Malamed, who is white, then allegedly complained to his sergeant that Garland, who was sitting in the SUV, had not shown his identification. Then Garland called the cop a "fucking dick," according to a report obtained by the Daily News. A fight almost broke out, and both Garland and the sergeant had to be physically restrained.

An NYPD spokesman tells the News the incident is "under review to determine whether there were violations of department rules on either side." The report states that "Detective Garland believes that he was treated in a disrespectful manner because of the color of his skin," and he's also "very upset" over the way the detectives were treated by the Jewish community.

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Macho jerks, all of them.

If they were impersonating police officers they would have been driving while intoxicated

If they were impersonating police officers from the 61st, they would have been racially profiling.

billion dollar lawsuit coming right up...

Would you like that with a side of merit?

Al Sharpton is in make-up as we speak. "Press" conference in 5.

the community patrol pulled up with 15 members???
interesting this community patrol group.

Yeah, I'm more interested in this community patrol than another story of the NYPD

whites & jews vs. blacks & pakistanis

this is a PC minefield...or is it? you decide.

Those private Jewish patrols are a big problem for people of color. They make the NYPD and LAPD look like civil rights activists.

The Gothamist Guide to Article Writing:

1. Post a story involving race, religion, PETA, hipsters, or rent control
2. Sit back and watch the trolls feed and pageviews go up
3. ??????
4. PROFIT!

#3 = sell Bloomberg and American Apparel advertising space based on the pageviews from #2

this list has already been completed previously. but for the sake of fun, let's not forget bicycles, cops, and DWIs.

the shomrim jewish community patrol...keeping klal yisrael safe from shvartzes and other shkotzim/assorted racial filth since the 1960s.

but of course, there's no such thing as a racist jew. nope, they don't exist.
/eyeroll

All this story needs is a sick pug.

Riding in the bike lane on a hipsters stolen bike.

Then Garland called the cop a "fucking dick," according to a report...

I love how that (apparently appropriate) insult is now immortalized in the media. Last time I called somebody on the street an asshole he just stood there like a hump and said "what'd you say to me?" This is way better.

maybe we'll get lucky and the cops will start shooting each other until they're all gone

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