Several New York Police Department (NYPD) officers have reportedly claimed they were given orders to arrest people based on race between 2011 and 2015.

Officers said in sworn statements that were part of a discrimination lawsuit that they were instructed by a commander to particularly target black and Latino people, The New York Times reported Friday.

The commander is Constantin Tsachas, who managed more than 100 officers patrolling the subway in Brooklyn, according to the Times. He has reportedly since been promoted to be second-in-command of subway system policing.

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Officer Daniel Perez reportedly recalled the commander telling him, “You are stopping too many Russian and Chinese.”

“You should write more black and Hispanic people,” officer Aaron Diaz remembered being told in 2012, according to the Times.