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Court Employee Allegedly Caught On Hot Mic Calling Black Teen A Racist Slur
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A Manhattan court clerk is under investigation after allegedly calling a Black teenager the n-word on a hot mic.
Donna Prainito, a clerk at Manhattan Family Court, was overheard using the slur to describe a 15-year-old during a virtual proceeding on Thursday, according to the teenager s lawyer, Holden Thornhill.
The remark came as his client was being escorted out of the court room in handcuffs, he said. Look at this fucking n -er and his fucking pants, the woman allegedly said, before using an Italian-American epithet for Black people.
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We found a baby on the subway - now he s our son
By Lucy Wallis
image captionPete, Kevin and Danny in 2001
Danny Stewart was rushing to meet his boyfriend for dinner when he ran past something lying on the floor of a New York subway station. Soon he would treasure it more than anything else in the world.
It was around eight o clock on 28 August 2000, just past the frenzy of the New York rush hour when a subway train rattled down the track into 14th Street station, in the Chelsea district of Manhattan. Danny Stewart, 34, was late for dinner with his partner, Pete Mercurio, 32.