Certain members of Brooklyn College don’t want police officers using the bathrooms on campus. Students are reportedly circulating a petition asking the college to release a statement disinviting “NYPD on campus in any respect even if it’s just to take breaks and use bathrooms,” according to the Excelsior.
Brooklyn College officials are doubling down on the anti-cop sentiment. Director of Public Safety Donald Wenz recommends that the NYPD use the bathrooms in the “West End Building” instead of “walking across either quad to use the bathroom” and said that the school offers the use of their facilities to police “as a courtesy.”
The New York Post went to the Brooklyn campus to investigate the bathrooms that the NYPD officers are supposed to use and found them out of order and out of stock. The Post went on to speak to students at Brooklyn College about the state of the West End bathrooms. Apparently, the horrible state The Post found the restrooms in is a regular occurrence.
“The bathroom is horrendous,” one student said. “You can only wash your hands in one of the sinks because the other two are broken.”
Brooklyn College’s anti-cop stance is likely due in part to upset students who opposed an undercover police operation that took place at the college and targeted Muslim students.
Another student, who would not give his name, explained that “people get triggered” by cops.
“It’s not like we’re invading their campus,” one NYPD officer told the New York Post. “We’re only going there to use the bathroom.”
NYPD sergeants-union chief Ed Mullins says that the students who don’t want the police on campus “fail to recognize the value of those protecting them.” Mullins went on to suggest that the students should “go take classes abroad” and see what it’s like to have the bathrooms all to themselves.
Richard Raps is a Florida based journalist who previously worked in grassroots politics.
