Anti-BLM post gets Hopewell cop fired, other demoted for 'liking'
HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP (Mercer) — A township police officer was fired and another demoted over a Facebook comment in 2020 calling Black Lives Matter supporters “terrorists," according to their lawyer. Officer Sara Erwin wrote the post in June 2020 and was fired on Friday night by the Township Committee while Sgt. Mandy Gray, who commented on the post, was suspended, attorney Frank Crivelli told New Jersey 101.5. Crivelli said the post went up just after a violent protest in Trenton on May 31 against the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis during his arrest by police. “Last night as I left ...