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    How did an NYPD officer from Tibet end up accused of spying for China?

    Baimadajie Angwang, accused of ‘reporting on activities of Chinese citizens’, targeted a community center in Queens, stoking divisions in the community
    by Amanda Holpuch in New York Sep 29, 2020 4 minutes
    Tibetans commemorate the 1959 Tibetan Uprising against the invasion of Communist China with a rally in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza in New York City in March. Photograph: Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Images

    For staff of the Tibetan community centre in the New York neighbourhood of Woodside, the alarm bells started ringing when a local police officer suggested that they should stop flying the Tibetan flag outside their building.

    The NYPD officer – who was himself Tibetan – was a familiar face: Baimadajie Angwang had dropped by the Tibetan Community of New York and New Jersey several times in early 2019 with offers to help.

    But his comment about the flag prompted some raised eyebrows, said Tashi Chomphel, at the time a board member at the centre.

    “He said: ‘it’s not good for you, there are people who want to use this centre, maybe from other communities … People who

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