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EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ — With the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup fast approaching and MetLife Stadium in New Jersey set to host eight major matches, including the final on July 19, nearly 100 civil rights organizations have issued a joint letter to FIFA urging the organization to address immigration and human rights concerns in the United States.
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Ridgewood NJ, for those of you who wish to look at the Paul Vagianos Mayor Facebook page, you will now be able to see all the comments that citizens write in response to Mr. Mayor’s self-aggrandizing posts. This was not the case until midday on Thursday April 6. Prior to that, our mayor, who is supposedly an attorney, was circumnavigating the law by selectively hiding comments that did not fit his prescribed narrative of what a great guy he is.
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Ridgewood NJ, the backlash on social media censoring continues with several European Governments now calling for regulating “the digital oligarchy” and asserting that Big Tech is a threat to democracy.
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Trenton NJ, The law firm Quinn Emanuel filed a federal lawsuit last night challenging New Jersey’s new donor disclosure law on First Amendment grounds. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of QE’s client, Americans for Prosperity, and the ACLU has also already expressed strong objections to the law and reportedly plans to file suit.
This lawsuit is likely the first one to challenge the new law, which requires 501©(4)s, Super PACs and other organizations to disclose donors who give $10,000 or more.
Quiz time: What information might the authorities have passed on to the general public about the appearance of the assailants, but mysteriously did not?
Absolutely absurd that these suspects are not being profiled properly. Take a lesson from the wyckoff chief and maybe we can protect ourselfs from these criminals.
What futher description Age Race hair color what is medium build ?.height etc
These guys are maniacs and need to be caught.pistol whipping people needs a serious police reaction ..before these crimes are copied..
“Remain vigilant and report any sort of suspicious activity” says the police chief.
What he’s asking you to do, in his own diplomatic way, is to drop dime on anybody who subjectively looks to you, the bona fide neighborhood resident, like they are out of place and might be up to no good. Unlike the average patrolman, there are no career-ending consequences for an ordinary resident to defy PC orthodoxy and shine the floodlamp of municipal authority on a potential perp. For all of our sakes, don’t go wobbly when something just doesn’t quite look right to you, but you can’t easily explain why. Your telephone call opens the door for the police to roll up on that person and chat them up without any further cause or reason, even if, had you never called, the police themselves, applying their own department guidelines or criteria (read: straightjacket), would have refrained from stopping and talking to the person in question.
In other words, do us all a favor and don’t let fear of how you’ll later be perceived affect the decision of whether or not to call the police.
Township officials blew it. This decision is a disgrace. Have we become a nation of pearl clutching swooners?
He did nothing wrong. He stated a fact that, unfortunately, everyone knows. It’s just that the “Politically Correct” saw a problem. Political Correctness is destroying our Society.
This is a disgrace. The man did nothing wrong. Doesn’t anyone remember the “James bond gang” of burglars from Teaneck that were robbing houses in nj? All th participation in that Gang was black members. A smart coo knows that white Kids from Bergen are up to no good in Paterson too and if he said that there would be no issue. Political,correctness is the idea that one can pick up a turd on the clean end.
Police Chief Benjamin Fox should be demoted to patrolman and suspended without pay for 180 days for violating the Attorney General’s guidelines against racial profiling, township officials have decided. Anthony G. Attrino, NJ.com Read more
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Federal report on Newark police department may come back to haunt Cory Booker
JULY 28, 2014 LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, JULY 28, 2014, 1:40 AM
BY HERB JACKSON
RECORD COLUMNIST
NORTHJERSEY.COM
When the U.S. Justice Department issued a damning report last week about civil-rights abuses by the Newark Police Department, Sen. Cory Booker — who served as the high-profile mayor of the city while the abuses were piling up — said the federal involvement was a positive step.
As mayor, Booker recalled, he had worked with the American Civil Liberties Union — which first requested the federal investigation — to improve procedures and “even ended up calling for the federal assistance being announced today.”
What Booker didn’t say was that he had tried to stop the investigation back in 2010, before it ever began.
Or that he said in 2011 that it would be “ridiculous” to hire a federal monitor to oversee the department — a step that the city agreed to take last week.
Booker’s shifting reaction to federal oversight of the 1,000-member police force has had little immediate impact on his rising national reputation, even though similar issues have become major liabilities for other elected officials.
But they could be damaging in the future.
“For somebody who built his career around turning Newark around, a Justice Department finding is a very clear
statement that, well, you didn’t turn this part around,” said University of Nebraska-Omaha Professor Samuel Walker, who has written a book about police practices and was familiar with the ACLU’s efforts in Newark.
Though best known for his openness with strangers on Twitter to the point of inviting people to shower at his apartment during the post-Superstorm Sandy blackout, Booker has tightly controlled press access since becoming a senator. For example, he generally ¬declines requests for comment from reporters who swarm around senators heading to and from votes and has turned down invitations to appear on network news shows.
And last week, after the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced the scathing findings from a three-year investigation of the Newark police, he declined to discuss the police misconduct and instead only issued statements through his Senate office.
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