Police in New Jersey’s capital have shown a pattern of misconduct, including excessive force and unlawful stops, Justice Department officials said Thursday, in a report documenting arrests without a legal basis, officers escalating situations with aggression and unnecessary use of pepper spray.
The 45-page report comes after a roughly yearlong investigation into the Trenton Police Department, undertaken after an officer shot and paralyzed a young Black man who attempted to drive away when officers didn’t tell them why they stopped him.The Justice Department found the police department’s practices violate the Fourth Amendment and the report makes more than two dozen recommendations for remedial action.
The officer grabbed the boy by his neck, slammed him into the hood of a car and insulted him. The boy was not armed. The boy’s teacher approached the officer and told him the boy ran because he was scared of the police, the report says. The officer said that the police are out to help."That’s not how a Black man sees it," the teacher explained."That’s how an intelligent man would see it," the officer said, according to the report.
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