“A Gay Officer Caught Between Two Worlds”
“Brian Downey says he was destroyed. It was a day after the mass shooting in Orlando and the detective was walking away from a vigil where his boss, New York Police Commissioner William Bratton, spoke to a crowd of mourners outside of the Stonewall Inn. As Mr. Bratton spoke at the historic gay bar, some in the crowd chanted, “You kill people.” “That vigil was not an accurate portrayal of who the [gay] community is,” Detective Downey said. He added, “The police commissioner is not a killer and I’m not a killer.” The massacre of 49 people in an Orlando … Continue reading “A Gay Officer Caught Between Two Worlds”