Trenton Police Director Ernest Parrey calls residents 'hoodrats' in video
TRENTON >> The city’s top law enforcement official was captured on camera making a statement that some people view is as damaging as the N-word.
Trenton Police Director Ernest Parrey Jr. called residents “hoodrats” last year in a video obtained by The Trentonian from a source.
“There’s a lot of kids out here,” Parrey says in the footage from a police body camera that was shot on Aug. 23 on the 500 block of Lamberton Street. “But even coming down earlier on, there’s a lot of hoodrats out, up and down. Just send them on their way.”
Parrey was speaking with two African-American police officers during the encounter just after 6 p.m..
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