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Lynum: 'White Boy' Is No Racial Slur

Profiling Victims Urged To Call Police Chief

POSTED: Thursday, June 29, 2006
UPDATED: 1:54 pm EDT July 1, 2006

Orlando Commissioner Daisy Lynum insisted she did nothing wrong when she called a city officer who pulled over her son a "white boy," and continued her crusade against racial profiling Wednesday night, according to a Local 6 News report.

"In the last week, I have been called (expletive) more times than I have ever been called probably in my life for calling a white boy a white boy," Lynum said. "Now, when did that become a racial slur."

Lynum also said the city's police department has a problem with racial profiling in front of a group of people at an Orlando church Wednesday night.

Lynum encouraged people who believe they have been racially profiled to call the Orlando police Chief Michael McCoy as she did when her son, Juan, 30, was pulled over for a broken headlight on his vehicle.

  • Orange County Commission candidate Juan Lynum.

    "I will call on God and I do, so who is Mike McCoy that I would not call him at 1 a.m.," Lynum said.

    During the traffic stop, Juan Lynum called his mother and allegedly said he must have been stopped by a white police officer because of racial profiling, Local 6 News reported.

    "Daisy Lynum later made the comment that she did not want 'some white boy shooting my son or Tasing him,'" according to a Local 6 report.

    McCoy said in Juan Lynum's case, there was no racial profiling, Local 6 News reporter Erik von Ancken said. He also said the "white boy" comment was not good for the department.

    "We do not want to racially profile anyone," McCoy said. "The Orlando Police Department has taken this issue extremely seriously for a number of years."

    McCoy said he likes Daisy Lynum and does not need an apology from her. However, others have asked that she apologize.

    "(Apologize) for what? Lynum said. "I just said it and I say it every day, when did 'white boy' become a racial slur."

    Lynum said she will be at another meeting next week to hear more racial profiling complaints.

    Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.

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