This morning, huddled at the top of the steps at City Hall in an effort to stay dry, City Councilman Jumaane Williams (D-Brooklyn) and Kirsten John Foy (Public Advocate Bill de Blasio's Community Affairs Director), held a press conference to discuss their arrests after yesterday's West Indian-American Day Parade. After being allowed to pass through two check points near the Brooklyn Museum in Prospect Heights, Williams and Foy were halted and—even after they had properly identified themselves as an elected official and a high ranking government aide—an altercation ensued. "I was actually handcuffed while talking to the chief of police telling him what was going on," recalled Williams, who went on to blast the arresting officers as racially-profiling liars.

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