JUST IN: NYPD formally apologizes for 1969 Stonewall raid.
NY Daily News Archive / via Getty ImagesIn a police briefing Thursday on preparations for the New York City’s Stonewall 50 celebrations, New York Police Department Commissioner James P. O’Neill apologized for the June 28, 1969, police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich gay bar, that caused an uprising and ignited the modern-day LGBTQ rights movement.
“What happened should not have happened. The actions taken by the NYPD were wrong, plain and simple,” O’Neill said. “The actions and the laws were discriminatory and oppressive, and for that, I apologize.” New York City Police Commissioner James O'Neill during a press conference in New York on Sept. 18, 2016.O'Neill's comments are the first time in nearly 50 years since the raid occurred that an official from the NYPD formally apologized for the raid.This has never happened: NYPD Commissioner
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