At least one cop has been disciplined for ordering the NYPD's highest-ranking uniformed black officer out of his city-issued vehicle while parked in Queens, the New York Daily News reports. The off-duty, three-star chief was not charged with breaking any law.
"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, according to the Daily News.
The incident occurred last May 2, 2008, at about 7 p.m., as Chief Douglas Zeigler, 60, head of the Community Affairs Bureau, sat in his vehicle near a fire hydrant. Two plainclothes cops approached, one on each side of the SUV
One officer ordered the driver to roll down the heavily tinted windows.
Chief Zeigler reported the incident to NYPD Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.Zeigler said the two cops, who are white, had no legitimate reason to approach his vehicle.
NYPD's highest-ranking black cop 'stopped, frisked' by two white cops
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