Lisa Hazamoon Cahill, an Indian American who was formerly one of New York’s finest, is pissed and humiliated. The New York Daily News explains why:
One of the NYPD’s few Indian officers charges she was treated like a maid by her sergeant, who allegedly ordered her to wash and iron his shirts at Police Headquarters.
“He forced me to … I’m so embarrassed, so ashamed,” Lisa Hazamoon Cahill, 33, told the Daily News in an exclusive interview. “I couldn’t refuse. He wasn’t asking me, he was telling me.
“Maybe he thought because I was Indian, he thought I was submissive,” she added.
Cahill’s explosive allegation is contained in an employment discrimination lawsuit filed Jan. 28 in Manhattan Federal Court, charging a pattern of disturbing conduct by supervisors in the 1 Police Plaza security unit.
What’s up with the New York City government employees hating on Indians?
She said she once loved her job. She proudly recalled being commended in 2001 by then-Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik for stopping a knife-wielding stalker from getting into Police Headquarters.
She appeared in a recruiting video and occasionally represented the NYPD at events attended by the Indian community.
The Brooklyn-reared Cahill, who is of Punjabi descent, said she knew of only one other female cop of Indian origin in the 36,000-member force. Cahill said she was the only cop in the security unit with certification from the U.S. Marshals Service in X-ray screening for weapons and explosives.
Holy crap. Is anyone else scared by that last sentence? Homeland Security???
