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Protestor Taken Into Custody In Brief Clash Outside Bergen County Jail Protestor Taken Into Custody In Brief Clash Outside Bergen County Jail
Protestor Taken Into Custody In Brief Clash Outside Bergen County Jail Bergen County sheriff's officers took a protestor from Teaneck into custody during a brief flareup outside the county jail on Friday. A video posted on Instagram begins with Niko Sanabria-John, 25, straddling a barricade shortly after 3 p.m. An officer and then another grab his arm and try to pull Sanabria-John onto their side as a group grabs their fellow protestor and pull him back. A struggle ensues, the Instagram video shows. "He was told to come down off the barricade," Sheriff Anthony Cureton said. "He refused after numerous instructions." ****** ALSO SEE: Surveillance video show…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Schools
Bergen Sheriff, NAACP, Others Bringing Prominent Speakers To Anti-Hate Talk For High Schoolers Bergen Sheriff, NAACP, Others Bringing Prominent Speakers To Anti-Hate Talk For High Schoolers
Bergen Sheriff, NAACP, Others Bringing Prominent Speakers To Anti-Hate Talk For High Schoolers If you’re staging a critical conversation for high school students on the devastating impacts of hate and bigotry, you'd be hard-pressed to top the two civil rights activists enlisted by Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton in tandem with the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Bergen County NAACP and the Urban League of Bergen County. Juniors and seniors from the Englewood Public School District and the Frisch School in Paramus are invited to Cureton’s office at Two Bergen County Plaza in Hackensack at 1 p.m. this Tuesday (March 26) to hear Dwania Kyles and TM Garret. Dwania Kyles was one of th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
LAWSUIT: Medical Supply Worker Who Found Noose In Englewood Hospital Says He Was Targeted LAWSUIT: Medical Supply Worker Who Found Noose In Englewood Hospital Says He Was Targeted
Lawsuit: Medical Supply Worker Who Found Noose In Englewood Hospital Says He Was Targeted A 58-year-old Englewood Hospital worker says he was targeted in a bias crime after finding a noose in his workspace and is suing the hospital for negligence. Patrick O’Reilly, who is 58 and African-American, had been working in the hospital's medical supply department for nearly a decade before finding the 3-foot noose in 2017, NorthJersey.com reports. He filed a complaint last May alleging the hospital failed to protect him from discrimination and did not “observe and enforce rules regarding bullying and victimization of employees,” the report says. Englewood Hospital admit to r…

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by Cecilia Levine