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Brooklyn College doesn’t want police using campus bathrooms

Brooklyn College is kowtowing to cop-hating students by directing officers who need a bathroom break to the broken-down facilities in a building on the far edge of campus.

Amid a planned petition drive to ban cops from the taxpayer-funded campus, Donald Wenz, the school’s director of public safety, told the student newspaper The Excelsior that he’s trying to keep New York’s Finest out of sight.

While Wenz said all of the school’s restrooms were technically open to cops, the college prefers they stick to those in the isolated West End Building, “rather than walking across either quad to use the bathroom.”

A visit by The Post to the first-floor men’s room in the WEB — located past the school’s tennis courts and next to its athletic field — revealed a broken toilet with a hideously stained seat and an “OUT OF ORDER” sign taped to the door of its stall.





There was also a total lack of soap and paper towels.

A junior who’s majoring in psychology and who gave his name as Abe said it was far and away the worst place to go on the campus, which is part of the City University of New York system.

“The bathroom is horrendous,” Abe said. “You can only wash your hands in one of the sinks because the other two are broken.”

Meanwhile, an unidentified student is drafting a petition to college President Michelle Anderson to completely exile police, according to the Excelsior.

The student told the paper he wants Anderson to make it clear “that we do not want the NYPD on campus in any respect even if it’s just to take breaks and use bathroom.”

Several students told The Post they and their pals shared the sentiment, with a 21-year-old senior explaining that “people get triggered” by cops.





“I know students from every background and across every major,” she said. “They don’t feel comfortable around cops. They just don’t. It makes safe spaces feel not so safe.”

Another student, a 20-year-old junior majoring in psychology, said it was “weird” seeing cops on campus and added, “Your first instinct is to be scared.”

Student-body President Nissim Said blamed the sentiments on an NYPD operation that sent an undercover cop to infiltrate the school’s Muslim community in search of Islamic terrorists.

The same female cop helped the feds in 2015 nab two Queens women — Noelle Velentzas and Asia Siddiqui — who are awaiting trial on charges they stockpiled tanks of propane gas for an ISIS-inspired attack on the Big Apple.

Police who patrol the neighborhood around Brooklyn College were outraged at the students’ hostility to law-enforcement personnel.





“It’s not like we’re invading their campus,” one cop said. “We’re only going there to use the bathroom.”

Another called the students “insane,” adding: “That protester culture is warping their f–king minds.”

NYPD sergeants-union chief Ed Mullins suggested, “Maybe it’s time these students, who fail to recognize the value of those protecting them, go take classes abroad — where they can have their bathrooms all to themselves.”

Wenz told The Post that “we prefer” were the “key words” regarding where cops should use the college’s bathrooms, adding, “If police are seen walking across the quad, some may interpret that as an emergency going on.”

A college spokesperson said, “Brooklyn College offers the use of our facilities to the NYPD and other public servants . . . as a courtesy.”

Additional reporting by Kevin Sheehan





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