The state’s Legislative Black Caucus will renew its efforts to advance bills.
The Democratic governor was asked about state Assemblywoman Shavonda Sumter’s recent interview with NJ Advance Media in which she said the state’s Legislative Black Caucus will renew its efforts to advance bills to address the legal protections police officers in New Jersey now have for their actions on the job, known as qualified immunity, and to establish a civilian review board with sunpoena power in the state.
“The urgency is now because we can’t predict when there will be rogue cops, or rogue law enforcement officers,” Sumter, D-Passaic, said Tuesday, days after Memphis police released video of the brutal beating of Nichols, an unarmed Black man who later died from the injuries. Get politics news like this right to your inbox with the N.J. Politics newsletter. Add your email below and hit"subscribe"Five officers, all of whom were fired, were charged in Nichols’ death, a sixth was relieved of duty and a seventh was suspended.
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