During a
news conference at New York City Hall, when Council person Jumaane Williams and
other council members were proclaiming their victory, when the City council
passed the bill against the City Police Department stop and frisk, I asked
Councilman Williams who will be the Judas Iscariot among the 34 council members
who voted for the bill to Stop and Frisk.
While
spending a few days in Mexico I just read an article in the Daily News by Celeste Katz that
apparently Mayor Bloomberg, aka the Devil, found his Judas in the persona of
Councilman Erik Dilán.
In the Daily News issue on July 30, Ms. Katz
wrote: “Several board members acknowledged that City Councilman Erik Dilán
(D-Brooklyn) has been floated as a possibility for the job. If he left the
Council, he would take with him the critical 34th vote to override Mayor Bloomberg’s veto of a bill expanding the
right to sue cops for racial profiling.
The New
Kings Democrats, a reform club in Brooklyn, said Dilán’s appointment would be “doubly
disastrous” because it would endanger the profiling bill and elevate someone
who has “done little in public life to show the leadership or competency” the
board needs.
The council district represented by
Councilman Erick Dilán is one of the poorest districts in Brooklyn. The
residents, particularly Black and Latino, have been innocently targeted by the
NYPD Stop and Frisk policy for merely walking the streets of Bushwick while
existing as Blacks and Latinos.
I urge Councilman Erik Dilán to show
his constituency that he too has a “Profile in Courage” and will reject the
temptation of becoming a puppet of the Devil incarnate in the person of the mayor.
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