‘Deeply Troubling’: NYPD Issues Public Apology Months After Deleting Tweet Falsely Accusing Black Teen of Mass Shooting, Leaving Him and Family to Deal with Death Threats

An NYPD social media post wrongly pinned a mass shooting at a parade in Brooklyn last year on a Black 15-year-old boy resulting in a dramatic personal upheaval for the teen and his family.

According to The Associated Press , more than two weeks after a shooting at New York City’s West Indian American Day Parade, police investigators posted a surveillance image of 15-year-old Camden Lee on their social media accounts and labeled him a shooting suspect.

But Lee was merely an innocent spectator of the event.

It would take another five months for the police department to make a public apology and admit the wrongdoing after quietly meeting with Lee’s family…

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