Lindsey Graham
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American History Tellers · FAN FAVORITE: Stonewall | Why Don't You Do Something? | 3 · 16 Sep 2026
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The New York City Police Department had been willing to turn a blind eye when gay men were being shaken down at a nightclub.
But the potential blackmail of Wall Street traders and bankers, even gay ones, was a claim they took very seriously.
So seriously that the city police assigned a special team to the case.
The leader of this team was a decorated deputy inspector named Seymour Pine.
Just shy of his 50th birthday, Inspector Pine had been transferred to the Morals Division of the NYPD after a career spent fighting the mafia in Brooklyn.
Pine's team was tasked with tracing the source of counterfeit bonds that had been appearing in Europe.
It was thought that these forged bonds were coming from the mafia, and that the extortion schemes on Wall Street could be traced right to the LGBTQ bars the mob owned in Greenwich Village.
Pine's commanding officer wanted these clubs shut down permanently.
So Pine and his team began securing the proper warrants they would need to start raiding gay clubs in the village.
The warrants would help them legally search the private clubs, and the other officers would train undercover.
By the summer of 1969, Pine and his team had raided several bars, but turned up nothing.
Then, late in the evening on Friday night, June 27th, Pine and a small team of plainclothes police officers gathered in Christopher Park, across the street from the Stonewall.
Even though Pine had already orchestrated a raid on Stonewall just three days before, he decided to return.
This time, his team would move in during prime time, after midnight on a Friday when the club was at its busiest.
A Friday night raid would be a surprise to just about everyone, and perhaps his team could finally dig up something useful.
But now Pine was nervous.
He'd sent two female undercover officers inside around midnight.
When they emerged from the bar, it would be a signal for the raid to start.
But that was well over half an hour ago, and they were nowhere to be seen.
By 1.20 in the morning, Pine felt he had waited long enough.
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