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Officer Justified Shooting Knife-Wielding Englewood Man During Struggle Officer Justified Shooting Knife-Wielding Englewood Man During Struggle
Officer Justified Shooting Knife-Wielding Englewood Man During Struggle UPDATE: An Englewood police officer was justified in shooting a man who'd just stabbed three people, a grand jury ruled on Monday, April 22, following a state-required review. Chilling bodycam videos clearly show Englewood Police Officer Luana Sharpe and other officers were struggling over a knife with 22-year-old city resident Bernard Placide when she shot him on Labor Day 2022. A grand jury review was nonetheless required under New Jersey law because Placide died during an encounter with law enforcement. Evidence was collected by investigators with the state Office of Public Integrity an…

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Bad Heart Killed NJ Man, 73, While In Police Custody, Grand Jury Finds Bad Heart Killed NJ Man, 73, While In Police Custody, Grand Jury Finds
Bad Heart Killed NJ Man, 73, While In Police Custody, Grand Jury Finds Newark police bore no responsibility in the death from heart disease of a 73-year-old man who collapsed in the back seat of a patrol car, a state grand jury has found. Juan Restrepo of Summit had been taken into custody by officers who'd responded to a report of an intoxicated man behind the wheel of a vehicle on June 15, 2020, Acting New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said. “He was then transported to [an] NJ TRANSIT station, where officials attempted to obtain a Breathalyzer reading,” the attorney general said. “A reading was not able to be obtained.” Restrepo “was subsequent…

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AG Releases Limited-View Video Of Clifton Police Car Striking, Killing Pedestrian, 65 AG Releases Limited-View Video Of Clifton Police Car Striking, Killing Pedestrian, 65
AG Releases Limited-View Video Of Clifton Police Car Striking, Killing Pedestrian, 65 A limited-view home surveillance video of a pedestrian being struck and killed by a Clifton police cruiser headed to a call was released Wednesday by New Jersey’s chief law enforcer. Officer Garrell Middleton was "responding to a radio alert of a crime in progress with the emergency lights on his patrol vehicle activated" when it struck the woman while making a turn at the intersection of Allwood and Brookwood Road at 7:11 p.m. Oct. 22, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. The officer rendered aid to the 65-year-old victim before EMS personnel took her to St. Joseph's Regional Medi…

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by Jerry DeMarco