
Sidelined in this year's Pride March, NYPD officers speak out
CNN
When NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea took the podium Thursday to address this year's preparations for New York's Pride weekend, his comments were tinged with disappointment and pride for his own.
"This is what makes this department so special," Shea said. "We are far from perfect. But you look at the diversity of this room -- whether it's diversity of the color of your skin, your sexual orientation or anything else -- you've heard me say, we are your police department, and I am so damn proud to be standing up here." But this year, that department will not be on display at the Pride march.
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