Police banned from participating in New York City Pride events until 2025
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Law enforcement and corrections personnel have been banned from participating in New York City Pride events until 2025, event organizers announced Saturday.
"The sense of safety that law enforcement is meant to provide can instead be threatening, and at times dangerous, to those in our community who are most often targeted with excessive force and/or without reason," said the organizers of the annual march in a statement. "NYC Pride is unwilling to contribute in any way to creating an atmosphere of fear or harm for members of the community." Event organizers said that they will not promote law enforcement on their social media accounts or any Pride-owned media through mentions, interviews or spotlights and "will not allow NYPD to speak at its events or use any NYC Pride platform."Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday said it will consider the constitutionality of the Federal Communications Commission's Universal Service Fund, agreeing to review a lower court decision that upended the mechanism for funding programs that provide communications services to rural areas, low-income communities and schools, libraries and hospitals.
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