A New York City council member is accusing police of racial bias after being detained at the Brooklyn West Indian Day Parade earlier this week. Jumaane Williams and a council staffer were handcuffed after walking on what police called a restricted area. The police have claimed they moved in after an officer was struck in the face, but neither Williams nor the staffer were accused. On Tuesday, Williams said he was targeted because of his ethnicity.

Jumaane Williams: “We do have to acknowledge that if I did not look the way I looked—young, black, with locks and earrings, with another young black male—if we were elected officials of a different persuasion, we are sure that things would have been handled differently.”