A veteran NYPD lieutenant turned podcaster claims the division refused to present Christian males exemptions from the COVID-19 vaccine mandate as a result of a DEI commissioner wished to place extra girls on the pressure.
John Macari, who co-hosts the “New York’s Finest: Retired & Unfiltered Podcast,” mentioned he had to decide on between his Christian religion and his job due to insurance policies put forth by the town’s now disgraced COVID czar Jay Varma and former NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Fairness and Inclusion, Tanya Meisenholder.
Meisenholder as soon as mentioned in a podcast that greater than 10% of NYPD staff are “knuckle draggers,” which Macari claimed is a discriminatory time period for males.
The 2 “were responsible for [Macari] being told that he either had to get vaccinated or be terminated. This was not done to female officers, trans-sexual officers, and those officers of no faith,” Macari alleged in a $10 million Manhattan Supreme Courtroom lawsuit.
“Living as a devout and God-fearing Christian” stored him from being vaccinated, Macari contended in court docket papers.
Macari mentioned he left the NYPD in February 2022 after 18 years on the job.
He “suffered severe emotional distress including anxiety and bouts of depression when he was forced to choose between violating the sanctity of his body and his soul through the illegal and forceful coercion … and staying on the job that he loved,” he mentioned within the authorized submitting.
Meisenholder’s private effort to extend the variety of girls in American police departments, often called the 30X30 Initiative, gave her “a strong interest in changing the accommodation process and keeping male police officers … out of work while granting female officers the same accommodation just to help foster her discriminatory results,” in accordance with the lawsuit.
She left the NYPD in August 2023 after 16 years, and now serves because the Director of Gender Fairness, Policing Mission for New York College’s College of Legislation, in accordance with LinkedIn.
Earlier this 12 months Macari proclaimed division brass warned the rank-and-file to not hearken to his present, which is commonly crucial of the NYPD’s paperwork.
The NYPD declined touch upon the lawsuit. Varma couldn’t be reached. Meisenholder didn’t instantly reply to a message searching for remark.
