A Black Lives Matter leader who was told not to wear a T-shirt bearing his group’s logo during the murder trial of an NYPD cop wants the Brooklyn judge to issue a similar ban against the police uniforms flooding the courtroom.
Hawk Newsome, the regional head of Black Lives Matter, said he was asked by an assistant attorney general to turn his T-shirt inside out as he sat in the courtroom for jury selection on Friday.
But the many NYPD cops in uniform or wearing a police union shirt who were there to support Police Officer Wayne Isaacs stayed as they were, Newsome said.
Isaacs faces 25 years to life in prison for fatally shooting Delrawn Small during a fit of road rage on Atlantic Ave. in Brooklyn on July 4, 2016.
Assistant Attorney General Joshua Gradinger told Newsome the logo ban came from Justice Alexander Jeong, the activist said.
“How fair is it that police can visibly support another cop who was indicted for murder and manslaughter, but family and activist can’t wear a particular shirt?” Newsome told The News on Tuesday.