The former head of the NYPD’s hate crime bureau filed a $1 million notice of claim against the city Friday, saying she was “defamed” by Mayor Eric Adams and bumped out of her job over false claims she didn’t take a report by an Asian American woman seriously, The Post has learned.
Inspector Jessica Corey, a 30-year department veteran, says that her encounter with Esther Lee, who was spit on and called a “carrier” in a subway last October, was mischaracterized and that she was wrongly criticized by Adams in a TV interview.
“[Corey] received and listened to Ms. Lee’s concerns with the utmost sensitivity,” the notice of claim asserts.
The attack on Lee came at a time when hate attacks against Asian Americans were at record highs.
But she told ABC that when she reported the incident, a detective accused her of exaggerating and an unsympathetic Corey told her she shouldn’t have recorded the suspect and the altercation wasn’t a hate crime.
During a sit-down interview with Adams that aired in part on Feb. 16, an ABC reporter confronted Hizzoner about Lee’s allegations.
“This is the first time someone has come to me with concerns,” Adams told the reporter after hearing Lee’s story.
“I don’t want a leader in that area that starts off with saying why something is not a possible hate crime. It would be troubling to me to see if someone is not clear on the direction I want my hate crime unit to perform. I don’t know what the criterias were under other administrations, but we have a...
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