Steven Lee #stopthehate
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@Steve4NY
Official Account. Candidate for District Assembly (40) #2020 . Democrat, #Whistleblower Former Sergeant @ NYPD, advocate and community activist
Discrimination based on gender identity or expression is illegal in New York City. Trans New Yorkers are protected by law. Our City will protect your rights, defend your humanity and stand beside you without hesitation. them.us/story/zohran-m…
The names changed. The IAB playbook did not. A new Bronx human-rights lawsuit filed on behalf of NYPD Officer Shatorra J. Foster alleges that the Department replaced Internal Affairs leadership after the Maddrey/Epps scandal, but continued the same institutional model: protect the favored actor, ignore warning signs, adopt the contaminated narrative, and punish the person who raised the alarm. This case is not about relitigating every allegation in the pending New York County action against Sergeant Trevlyn O. Headley. Those claims are already moving forward. This case is about what the NYPD allegedly did after its own internal files showed the disciplinary case against Foster was contaminated. According to the complaint, newly disclosed Special Investigations Unit and Prosecutorial Wall materials revealed that Headley was not a neutral complainant. She was also a subject officer. The Department allegedly had information concerning Headley’s credibility, motive, Department-resource access, computer misuse, workplace conduct, prior discipline, demotion, and treatment of women. Yet the Department allegedly kept moving forward with a Foster-centered disciplinary case. The complaint alleges that Headley made false statements and advanced a fabricated disciplinary narrative. It further alleges that NYPD decisionmakers adopted, relied upon, ratified, and failed to correct that narrative. That distinction matters. This lawsuit is not simply about what Headley allegedly did. It is about what the Department did with the evidence once it had reason to know the complainant-source was compromised. The complaint alleges that Foster’s outcries, 311 contacts, anonymous complaints, Department-resource concerns, and disclosures were treated as misconduct, while Headley-related evidence was minimized or compartmentalized. Even after Foster filed counterclaims alleging sexual harassment, coercion, retaliation, abuse of authority, and sexual assault, the Department allegedly did not meaningfully investigate those counterclaims. Instead, Foster was removed as a witness, the allegations against her were updated as substantiated, and on or about April 24, 2026, she was demoted from probationary detective to police officer only weeks before completing probation. That is the issue. Not “she admitted misconduct.” Admission of isolated facts is not an admission of misconduct when the full context is coercion, retaliation, fabricated evidence, ignored outcries, and investigative contamination. If an internal affairs system can take a victim’s outcries and convert them into discipline while ignoring evidence against the favored complainant-source, the problem is not just one case. It is the model. Out with the old. In with the new. Same IAB cover-up model. Read the press release: The Names Changed. The IAB Playbook Did Not. lnkd.in/eY-JEjmT #CivilRights #NYPD #InternalAffairs #PoliceAccountability #Retaliation #SexualHarassment #EmploymentDiscrimination #NYSHRL #NYCHRL #WorkplaceRights #InstitutionalAccountability #TheSandersFirmPC #EricSandersEsq #Bronx #NewYorkLawyer
“Haitian American former NYPD lieutenant @EdwinRaymondNYC, who gained national attention for speaking out against police quotas and misconduct inside the department, has been appointed the new sheriff of New York City by @NYCMayor Zohran Mamdani.” haitiantimes.com/2026/05/29/may…
