“We are delighted and overwhelmed by the support in New York City and that New York was able to get it right,” Toronto Police Association President Mike McCormack told CP24 on Saturday morning, as he got ready to board a flight to New York.
In January, the membership of Pride Toronto voted to ban uniformed officers from this year’s parade in the wake of a protest from members of Black Lives Matter- Toronto that briefly halted the event last year. The trip was organized after the Gay Officers Action League (GOAL) of New York extended an invitation to Toronto police officers in May.
A group of Toronto police officers who are barred from marching in the city’s Pride Parade in uniform this weekend are in New York City to instead walk alongside NYPD officers in that city’s pride march.Ī contingent of about 100 people, which includes Toronto police officers, civilian employees with the TPS, some correctional officers and officers from other police forces across southern Ontario, arrived in the Big Apple to participate in pride festivities there following Pride Toronto’s decision to ban uniformed officers from this weekend’s parade along Yonge Street.
