José Ramos, now a college student, has filed a suit accusing New York City of bias and unlawful detention. He claims that he was called a “boy or whatever it is that you are” by Tiffany Delin (a safety agent) while she was denying him participation in a student council Hispanic Day event. This took place while he was a student at Unity High School in SoHo in 2003. Court papers claim he had permission from his principal to participate in the event, and yet was handcuffed and threatened to be taken to a police station by Delin because he refused to sit.

What’s the purpose of a safety agent again? I thought it was to keep everyone safe (or at least give a false sense of doing so).

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