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…