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Some New York Police Department sergeants are feeling the heat after they decided to pull a Don Imus move. During roll calls in the days following the Imus firing, four black female cops were reffered to as “nappy headed hoes”.

For some reason, these cops must have found it funny and acceptable to speak to their black female counterparts in this manner. However, I am certain that police officials in a department of questionable relations with black citizens, did not want to deal with another scandal.

The following excerpt contains examples of what these women dealt with:

Detective Aretha Williams was looking for the sign-out book at the end of her shift.

“Don’t give me no lip before I call you a nappy-headed ho,” Sgt. Michael Cantatore, who is white, told Williams, according to the detective.

That comment “cut me to the core,” said Williams yesterday. “I find it disrespectful, racist, sexist.

“It can’t be tolerated,” said the 15-year veteran, who broke down into tears during a press conference with 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care.

Cantatore is scheduled to retire today. An NYPD source said he would be interviewed tomorrow by Equal Opportunity Office investigators who are probing the women’s complaints.

In another incident, on April 15, three black female officers - Tronnette Jackson, Maria Gomez and Karen Nelson - allegedly were singled out during a morning roll call in Brooklyn’s 70th Precinct by Sgt. Carlos Mateo, who is Hispanic.

“Stand-up, ho’s,” Mateo said, according to lawyer Bonita Zelman, who works with the Guardians Association, an advocacy group for minority officers.

Police Officer Ralph Montenez then chimed in, “They’re not just ho’s, they’re nappy-headed ho’s,” according to Zelman.

Sadly, this is what you get when people get too comfortable disrespecting us. This goes to show that, in the NYPD, even the black officers catch hell.

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