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Two police officers invoked the Fifth Amendment when they declined to testify before a grand jury investigating fired Paterson cop Spencer Finch.
Paterson police officer Spencer Finch was arrested on Friday on charges that he assaulted someone while on duty in late May.
PATERSON — The city has fallen short in its attempt to get a full dismissal of the federal lawsuit filed over the death of Jameek Lowery, who died in January 2019 after he was restrained by Paterson police officers in an ambulance. A federal judge last week ruled that Lowery’s estate could continue with its lawsuit on two counts: allegations of his wrongful death and damages to his survivors for his pain and suffering. The judge, Madeline Cox Arleo, also said in her decision that the family could pursue four other counts against the city for alleged violations of Lowery’s civil rights ...