Your phrasing is notable; quite telling actually that you think a group of black people showed up at SOMEONE else's party? The unspoken in it, it seems to me, they don't belong there...which by the way has been a fundamental complaint about Pride - WHOSE party is it -  that its leadership has finally acknowledged.

I dont know if excluding uniformed officers from the parade was the right thing, any kind of exclusion makes me uncomfortable; nonetheless, if I'd had been beaten to a pulp by a cop in a back alley, then had him/her lie about it in court, been carded innumerable times for just walking down the street, had my head slammed into the back of one their cars, etc. etc. etc.  yeah, I wouldnt want to be partying with them either...so back to the question WHOSE party is it?