Racial Profiling Gone Wrong: Bigot Cops Didn’t Recognize Off-Duty Chief

[24KT]

Racial Profiling Gone Wrong:
Bigot Cops Didn’t Recognize Off-Duty Chief

July 31, 2013 | Posted by: Editorial_Staff


        Chief Douglas Ziegler


AFRICANGLOBE – At least one cop has been disciplined for ordering the NYPD’s highest-ranking uniformed Black officer out of his auto while the three-star chief was off-duty and parked in Queens.

“How you can not know or recognize a chief in a department SUV with ID around his neck, I don’t know,” a police source said.

Chief Douglas Zeigler, 60, head of the Community Affairs Bureau, was in his NYPD-issued vehicle near a fire hydrant when two plainclothes cops approached on May 2, sources said.

One officer walked up on each side of the SUV at 57th Ave. and Xenia St. in Corona about 7 p.m. and told the driver to roll down the heavily tinted windows, sources said.

What happened next is in dispute.

In his briefing to Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, Chief Zeigler said the two cops, who are White, had no legitimate reason to approach his SUV, ranking sources said.

After they ordered him to get out, one officer did not believe the NYPD identification Zeigler gave him.

The cops gave a different account:

When one officer spotted Zeigler’s service weapon through the rolled-down window, he yelled “Gun!” according to sources who have spoken with the officers.

Both cops raised their weapons and ordered the driver out of the car, sources said.

Instead of saying he was an armed member of the NYPD, Zeigler shouted, “Don’t you know who I am?” the sources said.

When one cop reached over to check the identification badge around Zeigler’s neck, the chief pushed him away, sources said.

Only then did Zeigler tell the two officers his name and rank, those sources alleged.

Chief Zeigler, in his discussions with Kelly, said the officers never yelled “Gun!” sources said.

One cop got into a heated argument with the chief even after seeing the ID, sources said.

That cop was stripped of his gun and badge and placed on modified duty last night, sources said. The status of the second officer was unclear.

The incident occurred as the NYPD is under fire for record numbers of pedestrians being stopped and frisked, the majority of them Black or Hispanic. Some 145,098 people were stopped by the NYPD in the first quarter of this year.

Zeigler has headed the Community Affairs Bureau since January 2006. His wife, Neldra Zeigler, is NYPD deputy commissioner for equal employment opportunity.


ROTFLOL!!! Talk about having a baaaaad day at the office!

[andreisdaman]

Racial Profiling Gone Wrong:
Bigot Cops Didn’t Recognize Off-Duty Chief

July 31, 2013 | Posted by: Editorial_Staff


        Chief Douglas Ziegler


AFRICANGLOBE – At least one cop has been disciplined for ordering the NYPD’s highest-ranking uniformed Black officer out of his auto while the three-star chief was off-duty and parked in Queens.

“How you can not know or recognize a chief in a department SUV with ID around his neck, I don’t know,” a police source said.

Chief Douglas Zeigler, 60, head of the Community Affairs Bureau, was in his NYPD-issued vehicle near a fire hydrant when two plainclothes cops approached on May 2, sources said.

One officer walked up on each side of the SUV at 57th Ave. and Xenia St. in Corona about 7 p.m. and told the driver to roll down the heavily tinted windows, sources said.

What happened next is in dispute.

In his briefing to Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, Chief Zeigler said the two cops, who are White, had no legitimate reason to approach his SUV, ranking sources said.

After they ordered him to get out, one officer did not believe the NYPD identification Zeigler gave him.

The cops gave a different account:

When one officer spotted Zeigler’s service weapon through the rolled-down window, he yelled “Gun!” according to sources who have spoken with the officers.

Both cops raised their weapons and ordered the driver out of the car, sources said.

Instead of saying he was an armed member of the NYPD, Zeigler shouted, “Don’t you know who I am?” the sources said.

When one cop reached over to check the identification badge around Zeigler’s neck, the chief pushed him away, sources said.

Only then did Zeigler tell the two officers his name and rank, those sources alleged.

Chief Zeigler, in his discussions with Kelly, said the officers never yelled “Gun!” sources said.

One cop got into a heated argument with the chief even after seeing the ID, sources said.

That cop was stripped of his gun and badge and placed on modified duty last night, sources said. The status of the second officer was unclear.

The incident occurred as the NYPD is under fire for record numbers of pedestrians being stopped and frisked, the majority of them Black or Hispanic. Some 145,098 people were stopped by the NYPD in the first quarter of this year.

Zeigler has headed the Community Affairs Bureau since January 2006. His wife, Neldra Zeigler, is NYPD deputy commissioner for equal employment opportunity.


ROTFLOL!!! Talk about having a baaaaad day at the office!

These types of "misunderstandings" happen all the time...the chief is lucky he didn't get killed

[Skip8282]

They'll get a little, tiny slap on the wrist like most cops get.

[tonymctones]

lol did anyone read the article?

exactly what was racist about what happend?

[24KT]

These types of "misunderstandings" happen all the time...the chief is lucky he didn't get killed

Agreed. I can certainly see why he was prompted to relieve the guy of his gun and his badge and stick him on administrative leave.

Can you imagine if they had shot the guy, and made up some BS story, ...only to find out he's no gang-banger, ...but infact the chief? He would never leave that hospital alive.

[OzmO]

lol did anyone read the article?

exactly what was racist about what happend?

Bump

[tonymctones]

will one of you race baiting huslters answer this?

lol did anyone read the article?

exactly what was racist about what happend?

[a_ahmed]

hahaha serves them right good one +1

[a_ahmed]

These types of "misunderstandings" happen all the time...the chief is lucky he didn't get killed

Yeah in Nazi Germany, I mean the free United States of America

Even here in Canada I've been harassed when I was younger simply for being young (and I'm white). Got so many stories, just even chilling in the car and waiting for a friend and some over zealous cops wanting to harass me. That is in Toronto anyway, cops are total aholes.

Outside of Toronto there are aholes too. The closer you get to Toronto the worse. One time this crazy butch woman cop started yelling at me "DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID?!?" while I was with my wife and well I said what did I do? She spent 10+ minutes inspecting my car when she could not answer me that lol. Couldn't find anything wrong either, so lo and behold she gave me a ticket because on my ownership I forgot to place the latest sticker even though on the license plate I had the latest sticker. Cops can be so pathetic.

Serve and protect my ass. Power hungry and trained to be aholes to the public. I'm always glad to hear stories when they get caught in the act for being aholes.

[Bad Boy Dazza]

So how is this different to what the cops do to US citizens EVERY DAY?  Seems Ziegler got a taste of what it is to be a regular Joe.  So if the cops think this treatment of the public is OK, then how is this controversial?

Racial Profiling Gone Wrong:
Bigot Cops Didn’t Recognize Off-Duty Chief

July 31, 2013 | Posted by: Editorial_Staff


        Chief Douglas Ziegler


AFRICANGLOBE – At least one cop has been disciplined for ordering the NYPD’s highest-ranking uniformed Black officer out of his auto while the three-star chief was off-duty and parked in Queens.

“How you can not know or recognize a chief in a department SUV with ID around his neck, I don’t know,” a police source said.

Chief Douglas Zeigler, 60, head of the Community Affairs Bureau, was in his NYPD-issued vehicle near a fire hydrant when two plainclothes cops approached on May 2, sources said.

One officer walked up on each side of the SUV at 57th Ave. and Xenia St. in Corona about 7 p.m. and told the driver to roll down the heavily tinted windows, sources said.

What happened next is in dispute.

In his briefing to Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, Chief Zeigler said the two cops, who are White, had no legitimate reason to approach his SUV, ranking sources said.

After they ordered him to get out, one officer did not believe the NYPD identification Zeigler gave him.

The cops gave a different account:

When one officer spotted Zeigler’s service weapon through the rolled-down window, he yelled “Gun!” according to sources who have spoken with the officers.

Both cops raised their weapons and ordered the driver out of the car, sources said.

Instead of saying he was an armed member of the NYPD, Zeigler shouted, “Don’t you know who I am?” the sources said.

When one cop reached over to check the identification badge around Zeigler’s neck, the chief pushed him away, sources said.

Only then did Zeigler tell the two officers his name and rank, those sources alleged.

Chief Zeigler, in his discussions with Kelly, said the officers never yelled “Gun!” sources said.

One cop got into a heated argument with the chief even after seeing the ID, sources said.

That cop was stripped of his gun and badge and placed on modified duty last night, sources said. The status of the second officer was unclear.

The incident occurred as the NYPD is under fire for record numbers of pedestrians being stopped and frisked, the majority of them Black or Hispanic. Some 145,098 people were stopped by the NYPD in the first quarter of this year.

Zeigler has headed the Community Affairs Bureau since January 2006. His wife, Neldra Zeigler, is NYPD deputy commissioner for equal employment opportunity.


ROTFLOL!!! Talk about having a baaaaad day at the office!