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VIDEO: Spectators Interfering With Police Sparked Passaic Softball Game Melee, Authorities Say VIDEO: Spectators Interfering With Police Sparked Passaic Softball Game Melee, Authorities Say
Video: Spectators Interfering With Police Sparked Passaic Softball Game Melee, Authorities Say A softball game at a Passaic park escalated into arrests when people interfered with police who were trying to issue summonses to those drinking and smoking there, authorities said. One of those charged is a Brooklyn man who officers said threw water on them. Another who was taken into custody told a TV news reporter he believed police overreacted. No other accounts of the incident were reported by local news media in the wake of the melee. A review by Daily Voice of police reports and cellphone video shot during the incident tell this story: Responding to complaints, four members of the…

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by Jerry DeMarco