This Police Union Suspended 8 Members. Seven Are Black.
This Police Union Suspended 8 Members. Seven Are Black. The union in a small New Jersey city punished the officers after they expressed support for two chiefs, both of whom are also Black. Ainsworth Minott, with bullhorn, and other protesters outside police headquarters in Englewood, N.J.Credit...Simbarashe Cha for The New York Times Dec. 31, 2020 ENGLEWOOD, N.J. — The tensions within the Englewood Police Department had simmered for months: at disciplinary hearings, during Black Lives Matter marches and in the fallout over no-confidence votes by the officers’ union in the chief and deputy...
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