NEW YORK-Brooklyn City Councilman, Jumaane Williams who was handcuffed and detained by police officers at the West Indian Labor Day parade says racism played a factor is his detainment.
Williams was handcuffed and later released after a policemen refused to let him enter a safe-zone near the Brooklyn Museum.
The New York Post reports:
“I believe if we were white elected officials this would not have happened,” said City Councilman Jumaane Williams, (D-Brooklyn), taken into custody with an aide to Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.
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