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Bomb Threats Prompt Evacuation Of Seaside Heights Boardwalk: Prosecutor Bomb Threats Prompt Evacuation Of Seaside Heights Boardwalk: Prosecutor
Bomb Threats Prompt Evacuation Of Seaside Heights Boardwalk: Prosecutor Bogus bomb threats aimed at Seaside Heights businesses were swatting incidents, authorities said. At approximately 8:50 a.m., on Monday, Sept. 11, the Seaside Heights Police Department received four phone calls indicating that two bombs were hidden at businesses on the Seaside Heights boardwalk, according to Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer. Additionally, the callers indicated that they had operatives armed with guns on the Seaside Heights boardwalk, he said. The Seaside Heights boardwalk was temporarily evacuated as law enforcement assessed the credibility …

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by Jon Craig
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BLM Leader Charged With Punching Man During Boardwalk Protest Was 'Acting In Self-Defense' BLM Leader Charged With Punching Man During Boardwalk Protest Was 'Acting In Self-Defense'
BLM Leader Charged With Punching Man During Boardwalk Protest Was 'Acting In Self-Defense' UPDATE: Charge dismissed in assault case. A 28-year-old leader of a Black Lives Matter protest who was charged with assault after police said he punched a man in the face at a Seaside Heights Boardwalk was simply protecting himself -- and never punched anyone, he said. Jamaal Holmes of Toms River was marching on Saturday with approximately 25 other protestors when an unidentified 68-year-old man demanded he take off his Guy Fawkes mask -- then reached over and tried ripping it off, Holes told the Asbury Park Press. Holmes got the audio in a recording taken on his iPhone, which at…

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by Cecilia Levine
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BLM Leader Charged With Punching Man During Boardwalk Protest Was 'Acting In Self-Defense' BLM Leader Charged With Punching Man During Boardwalk Protest Was 'Acting In Self-Defense'
BLM Leader Charged With Punching Man During Boardwalk Protest Was 'Acting In Self-Defense' A 28-year-old leader of a Black Lives Matter protest who was charged with assault after police said he punched a man in the face a Seaside Heights Boardwalk was simply protecting himself -- and never punched anyone, he said. Jamaal Holmes of Toms River was marching on Saturday with approximately 25 other protestors when an unidentified 68-year-old man demanded he take off his Guy Fawkes mask -- then reached over and tried ripping it off, Holes told the Asbury Park Press. Holmes got the audio in a recording taken on his iPhone, which at the end show the man lying on the boardwalk. …

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by Cecilia Levine