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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 ...

On Floyd verdict, talk is cheap. Police secrecy hasn’t changed in N.J. | Editorial Today 8:00 AM Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin listens as the verdict is read in his trial for the 2020 death of George Floyd (AP Photo).Court TV via AP, Pool Facebook Share Before the video surfaced of George Floyd’s murder, Minneapolis police put out a crisp statement that somebody died in custody because of a “medical incident.” If not for a teenager with a cell phone, we might never have known about the knee on his neck. The lesson is clear: We cannot trust what these agencies tell u...

Yolanda "Yonnie" Deaver, a Camden businesswoman who marched in protest after George Floyd's death, on Tuesday celebrated three guilty verdicts against his accused killer, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. "I felt overwhelmed with joy," Deaver said as she described seeing the verdicts being announced on national television. "My heart kind of skipped a beat a little bit." Deaver last year organized a protest march to Camden's Police Administration Building, a walk that was joined by Camden's then-police chief and other officers. On Tuesday, she still saw the wrong that took Flo...

But attacks happen much lower down government ranks, too. In the latest instance, the myNewJersey portal for state employees was victim to what's known as a credential stuffing attack, using compromised login credentials, according to the Office of Information Technology. Last year, the Securities and Exchange Commission warned that it had seen an uptick in such attacks that "significantly increases various risks for firms, including but not limited to financial, regulatory, legal, and reputational risks, as well as, importantly, risks to investors."  The myNewJersey portal allows state empl...

When COVID-19 swept into North Jersey 10 months ago, it struck the Hawthorne Police Department particularly hard. Almost a third of the squad's 34 officers fell ill almost at once, sending then-Chief Richard McAuliffe into a mad scramble to stagger schedules, change shifts and keep his officers away from each other.  That was the worst of it — current Chief James Knepper said only a few officers have caught the virus since. But the spring disaster made an imprint. And now that the vaccine is available to law enforcement, he’s encouraging his officers to get it as soon as they can. B...