The West Indian American Day Parade is held annually over the Labor Day weekend as a celebration of Caribbean culture.
Be careful what you post on Facebook. It is advice often offered, but seldom heeded. New York City police are now in hot water over what they posted on the social media site.
The New York Times reports that NYC's finest posted a raw and rude conversation among officers about a West Indian American Day parade. The conversations offered a fly-on-the-wall view of officers displaying roiling emotions often hidden from the public, a copy of the posting obtained by The New York Times shows. Some of the remarks appeared to have broken Police Department rules barring officers from “discourteous or disrespectful remarks” about race or ethnicity. The officers are publicly loathing being assigned to the West Indian American Day Parade in Brooklyn, an annual multi-day event that unfolds over the Labor Day weekend and that has been marred by episodes of violence, including deaths of paradegoers. Those who posted comments appeared to follow Facebook’s policy requiring the use of real names, and some identified themselves as officers.
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