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Scathing Report: Police Trainers Glorified Violence, Demeaned Women At NJ Seminar (VIDEOS) Scathing Report: Police Trainers Glorified Violence, Demeaned Women At NJ Seminar (VIDEOS)
Scathing Report: Police Trainers Glorified Violence, Demeaned Women At NJ Seminar (Videos) The Office of the State Comptroller (OSC) showed no mercy to a New Jersey-based organization that they said preached unconstitutional policing tactics and  demeaned women at a massive training conference paid for using thousands of dollars in public funding. The OSC made a video montage of just some of the 100 instances of "discriminatory and harassing comments" made at the October 2021 seminar held by Street Cop in Atlantic City, included in its scathing report announcing the findings of its investigation. Approximately 1,000 law enforcement officers from across the U.S. gathered…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Man Has Medical Episode And Dies Following NJSP Arrest, Authorities Say Man Has Medical Episode And Dies Following NJSP Arrest, Authorities Say
Man Has Medical Episode And Dies Following Njsp Arrest, Authorities Say A man charged with assaulting an officer suffered a medical episode and died after being arrested by New Jersey State Police, authorities said. Medical personnel were called to the NJSP Bridgeton station around 8 p.m. Saturday, July 8, after the arrestee became unresponsive, according to a release from the office of state Attorney General Matthew Platkin. Troopers tried to resuscitate the as-yet unidentified man, who was pronounced dead at Inspira Medical Center in Vineland the following evening -- 11:37 p.m., July 9, to be exact, the attorney general's release says. State Police had take…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
VIDEO: Bodycams Show Moments Before Driver's Fatal Medical Episode Off Rt 80 VIDEO: Bodycams Show Moments Before Driver's Fatal Medical Episode Off Rt 80
Video: Bodycams Show Moments Before Driver's Fatal Medical Episode Off Rt 80 Body camera footage released Friday shows a diabetic Paterson driver who died following a traffic stop having a medical episode in the back of a State Police cruiser. Troopers handcuffed Sergio Rodriguez, 51, and led him to the marked SUV after finding heroin in his car during a June 27 stop outside their Totowa barracks on Minnisink Road, the footage released by state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal shows. Rodriguez tells the troopers that he’s low on insulin, so one asks him whether they should call EMS. Rodriguez says he doesn’t want his family finding out, but the trooper insists. “…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Politics
Chris Christie (Not That One) Announces Campaign; Twitter Erupts In Jokes Chris Christie (Not That One) Announces Campaign; Twitter Erupts In Jokes
Chris Christie (Not That One) Announces Campaign; Twitter Erupts In Jokes He's Chris Christie... but not that one. A Birmingham attorney with the same name as New Jersey's ex-governor announced his candidacy for Alabama's Attorney General Wednesday. "I've dedicated my life to serving others and fighting for those who need a voice," Chris Christie wrote on Twitter Wednesday.  "I am the kind of leader who will help change our state government's culture for the better." The announcement was swiftly followed by an onslaught of Twitter jokes. "He can literally build a whole campaign on not being Chris Christie," one user commented. &q…

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by Cecilia Levine