‘Inexcusable:’ Town Of Parsippany Drops Contracted Towing Company Following Racist Incident ‘Inexcusable:’ Town Of Parsippany Drops Contracted Towing Company Following Racist Incident
‘Inexcusable:’ Town Of Parsippany Drops Contracted Towing Company Following Racist Incident The town of Parsippany-Troy Hills has dropped one of its contracted towing companies after a worker used racial slurs against a customer Wednesday morning. An employee at Ajaco Towing Recovery, a business contracted with the Parsippany Police Department, was caught on tape addressing a customer using “racial epithets and hostile language,” according to a post on the town’s official Facebook page. “After reviewing the video, the Township of Parsippany-Troy Hills and the Parsippany Police Department has decided to no longer use Ajaco Towing effective immediately,” reads the post. The compan…
CT Teen Charged In Yearbook Vandalism Case Involving Hitler, Marathon Bomber Quotes CT Teen Charged In Yearbook Vandalism Case Involving Hitler, Marathon Bomber Quotes
CT Teen Charged In Yearbook Vandalism Case Involving Hitler, Marathon Bomber Quotes A teenager in Connecticut is facing charges for allegedly vandalizing his school’s yearbook to include quotes from Adolf Hitler, drugs, and a message from Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, authorities announced. Hollister Tryon, age 18, who was forbidden from attending his graduation in Hartford County from Glastonbury High School for allegedly altering the school’s yearbook, is now facing criminal charges, according to police. Specifically, Tryon was charged with two counts of third-degree computer crimes for accessing a database used by students to alter classmates’ entries in the…
Suspect In Custody After Apparent Vandalism Of BLM Mural In Westchester Suspect In Custody After Apparent Vandalism Of BLM Mural In Westchester
Suspect In Custody After Apparent Vandalism Of BLM Mural In Westchester One suspect is in custody after a Black Lives Matter mural painted last fall in Westchester was vandalized, authorities announced. For the second time since it was painted in October, a mural that was created on Van Ranst Place near Columbus Park in Mamaroneck was vandalized, this time by throwing a can of paint on it before speeding away in a car. The incident happened at around 2:30 p.m. on Monday, July 12. Police said that investigators found a can of paint on the ground by the mural, and there were tire marks across the length of the mural after the car sped through the paint. The in…
NJ Man Who Went On Racial Tirade Newly Charged With Stalking, Damaging Neighbors' Vehicles NJ Man Who Went On Racial Tirade Newly Charged With Stalking, Damaging Neighbors' Vehicles
NJ Man Who Went On Racial Tirade Newly Charged With Stalking, Damaging Neighbors' Vehicles A 45-year-old South Jersey man captured in a viral video harassing his black neighbors has been newly charged with damaging their vehicles, stalking and drug-dealing offenses, authorities said. Edward C. Mathews, of Mount Laurel, was charged Thursday with multiple counts of criminal mischief, multiple drug-related offenses including dealing drugs, stalking and several weapons offenses, the Burlington County prosecutor said. Mathews, who was being held  in Burlington County Jail in Mount Holly, was initially charged on July 2, and again on Monday, with several counts of harassment, bias…
Judge's 'Racist' Words Cut 10 Years Off Area's Man Prison Sentence Judge's 'Racist' Words Cut 10 Years Off Area's Man Prison Sentence
Judge's 'Racist' Words Cut 10 Years Off Area's Man Prison Sentence An area man had 10 years shaved off his prison sentence after a panel of appeals judges ruled against the presiding judge for making racists comments during sentencing. Retired Judge Frank Labuda’s remarks at Angelo Johnson’s 2018 sentencing for burglary in Sullivan County were slammed by the appellate panel as being an outrageous 19th-century racist ideology that claimed that Blacks were inferior because they had smaller brains. During Johnson's trial Labuda told him he pitied him because his brain was “probably retarded in growth” and repeatedly ordered his mouth bound with mask…
'GTFO': Videos Show Upset Philly Residents Chasing Out White Supremacist Marchers 'GTFO': Videos Show Upset Philly Residents Chasing Out White Supremacist Marchers
'GTFO': Videos Show Upset Philly Residents Chasing Out White Supremacist Marchers A group of white supremacists marching through the Philadelphia streets over the Independence Day weekend were ultimately chased out by upset city residents. Nearly 200 members of a Texas-based group described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as white nationalists marched through Center City on Saturday evening carrying shields and flags, and chanting slogans such as "Reclaim America" and "The election was stolen," 6abc reports. In a video shared to Twitter, bystanders can be heard shouting "shame on you," and "get the f*** out of here," at the masked members as they marched through the…
NJ Man Accused Of Harassing Black Neighbor In Video Gets Jeered By 100 Angry Protesters NJ Man Accused Of Harassing Black Neighbor In Video Gets Jeered By 100 Angry Protesters
NJ Man Accused Of Harassing Black Neighbor In Video Gets Jeered By 100 Angry Protesters A Mount Laurel man seen in a viral video harassing his black neighbors was arrested, sparking a protest involving nearly 100 people outside of his home on Monday. The crowds gathered outside of Edward Cagney Mathews' condo in the Essex Place development for hours, three days after the 45-year-old resident was charged with harassment and biased intimidation. Dozens of rioters jeered and threw objects at Mathews, who was escorted out of his home by police for unknown reasons.  Mathews' arrest came after a neighbor reported being continually harassed by him, police said.  It was around that …
Newark's Brand New 700-Pound George Floyd Statue Defaced Newark's Brand New 700-Pound George Floyd Statue Defaced
Newark's Brand New 700-Pound George Floyd Statue Defaced The 700-pound George Floyd statue erected at City Hall was defaced overnight, authorities said Thursday. A Newark police sergeant traveling in the area of City Hall just before 6 a.m., noticed the bronze statue was defaced with graffiti, according to Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka and Public Safety Director Brian A. O’Hara. The face of the statue was also painted black, and in white paint on the torso of the statue were the words -- “LIFE…LIBERTY VICTORY PATRIOTFRONT.US”. The Newark Police Division immediately began an investigation, which remains ongoing, and the City's Public Works Depa…
Teachers, Staff Demand More Discipline For CT Principal Accused Of Using Racial Slur Teachers, Staff Demand More Discipline For CT Principal Accused Of Using Racial Slur
Teachers, Staff Demand More Discipline For CT Principal Accused Of Using Racial Slur Staff members from a Connecticut school district are calling on additional discipline for a magnet school principal who was recently demoted and removed from her position after allegedly using a racial slur. Earlier this month, the New Haven Board of Education voted 4-3 to reassign Brennan-Rogers Magnet School Principal Laura Roblee from her position after she allegedly used the racial slur this winter during a workshop on racism and inclusion. According to reports, Roblee is being assigned as an assistant principal at a different district school. However, the demotion and public outcry wa…
Students Walk Out Of Class At High Schools In Fairfield County After Racist Post Students Walk Out Of Class At High Schools In Fairfield County After Racist Post
Students Walk Out Of Class At High Schools In Fairfield County After Racist Post Groups of high school students in Fairfield County walked out of class to protest recent racial incidents that came to a head following a racist social media post earlier this month. On Monday, May 24, students at Fairfield Warde High School orchestrated a mass walkout of hundreds of students that were also in collaboration with students across town at Ludlowe High School. In total, upwards of 600 students reportedly walked out in Fairfield on Monday, which lasted a few hours, featuring speeches and some of the teens sharing their own experiences with race in the area. According to the o…
Racist Graffiti Found In Building At High School In Westchester Racist Graffiti Found In Building At High School In Westchester
Racist Graffiti Found In Building At High School In Westchester Police have launched an investigation into alleged racist graffiti that was found scrubbed on a poster in a high school bathroom in Westchester. Rye Schools Superintendent Eric Byrne issued a notice to the community saying that a custodian found a poster in a second-floor bathroom at the high school that had been tagged with racially charged graffiti. 
“A custodian found that a poster in a second-floor bathroom at Rye High School announcing a Class of 2022 fundraiser at Chipotle restaurant had been defaced,” he said. 
“It is not yet clear to us if any student saw the graffiti. We are rev…
Calls For Area Teacher To Be Fired Over Allegedly Racist George Floyd Assignment Grow Calls For Area Teacher To Be Fired Over Allegedly Racist George Floyd Assignment Grow
Calls For Area Teacher To Be Fired Over Allegedly Racist George Floyd Assignment Grow Calls for a Hudson Valley teacher to either be fired or resign are growing over what many are calling a racist assignment. The controversy began last week in Ulster County when Saugerties High School English teacher Hope Antonelli, gave her ninth-grade English class a writing assignment stating that “George Floyd did not die because (Derek) Chauvin’s knee was on his neck. He died from a heart attack and drug overdose.” Chauvin, the  former Minneapolis police officer, was found guilty of murder and manslaughter on Tuesday, April 20 for killing Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more…