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Race and Policing

Tenafly PBA Angered By Councilman's Comments About Police Shooting Kids Tenafly PBA Angered By Councilman's Comments About Police Shooting Kids
Tenafly PBA Angered By Councilman's Comments About Police Shooting Kids As if police don’t already have enough grief: A Tenafly councilman has angered officers in his town with a racially-charged comment. School officials had been considering replacing a single resource officer -- who primarily patrols the high school and occasionally the middle school – with recently-retired armed police officers in all district buildings. Last week, a member of a Tenafly Facebook group posted a link about an armed guard on Long Island who left his gun in a school bathroom. In response, Councilman Max Basch wrote: “If they had an armed guard on duty the kid with a toy gun wou…