By John Marzulli
The New York Daily News
NEW YORK — FDNY hiring practices were scrutinized Monday as a top department official was questioned about the hiring of two white former cops who beat murder raps in the infamous police shooting of Amadou Diallo.
Dean Tow, director of candidate investigations for the FDNY, was grilled in Brooklyn Federal Court Monday by a lawyer for the Vulcan Society, a fraternal organization of black firefighters.
The organization wants the court to appoint a special monitor to oversee reforms in the FDNY — particularly in the hiring exam, which has helped create a department that is 91% white. Tow struggled to explain how a white firefighter candidate who had earlier been entangled in a domestic incident involving a weapon was hired, while a minority candidate who was arrested for “pushing” his wife was not.
Full story: FDNY official grilled over agency’s hiring of two ex-NYPD cops involved in Amadou Diallo shooting