New York Daily News June 24th 2008
The city's top black cop was visiting a secret girlfriend in Queens when he became involved in a racially charged incident that left another officer's career in tatters, a man involved in the tangled affair says.
Chief Douglas Zeigler became a symbol of racial tension in the NYPD when two white cops aggressively questioned him while he was parked in front of a hydrant in Corona on May 2.
The married chief told Commissioner Raymond Kelly he was in the area to deliver a package, sources said.
Actually, Zeigler was rendezvousing with his paramour, Officer Valerie Sloan, said her ex-boyfriend.
"You're sitting at a fire hydrant and now you want to s--- on a cop's career because you were playing footsie? That's not right," said Sloan's ex, Raul Morrison.
A former city cop, Morrison is the father of Sloan's two children.
"The poor cop who got jammed up on this - this is not racial profiling, and that's from a black ex-cop," said Morrison, who was fired by the NYPD in 1991 after a series of command disciplines.
He filed a complaint with the department's Internal Affairs Bureau in 2003 alleging Zeigler was dating Sloan and that they used their NYPD connections to bar him from seeing his kids.
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Puh. I saw that episode years ago. It was on Hill Street Blues or NYPD Blue or Coronet Blue. Something "Blue."
Maybe it was Blue Velvet.
Oops, sorry, you said 'no comment.' Sometimes I can't stop myself. Why is that?
Hey that gives me an idea for a regular themed posting: Ask Trooper York, in which Trooper York answers his readers' most vexing questions about life. For example, who starred in what when... why football doesn't have innings... the etiquette of cussing... how to shop for ladies underwear...
You get the idea - questions for which Trooper York is singularly equipped to answer.
Just a thought.
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