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Police Chief Who Compared Black People to ISIS and Wanted to Mow Them Down Charged With Hate Crime
Michael Harriot
An Ex-New Jersey Police chief has been charged with hate crimes and civil rights violations by federal prosecutors after revelations surfaced that he used dogs to attack black suspects, used hateful speech and physically attacked an African American teenager.
According to NJ.com, Frank Nucera, Jr. was the police chief in the small township of Bordentown, NJ until he abruptly retired in February 2017 after investigators began looking into his history of racially motivated violence and hate speech. Nucera came under scrutiny after an 18-year-old accused him of bashing his head into a doorway and officers recorded him calling black suspects the n-word multiple times.
William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, called Nucera’s actions “A shocking breach of the duty of every police officer to provide equal justice under the law and never to mistreat a person in custody.” Much of the evidence in the complaint comes from secret recordings made by one of Nucera’s fellow officers who was “increasingly alarmed by (Nucera’s) racist remarks and hostilities toward African Americans.”
https://www.scribd.com/document/363199533/Criminal-complaint-against-Frank-Nucera-Jr#from_embed
On September 1, 2016, police responded to the Bordentown Ramada for complaints of a fight between a couple who refused to pay for a room. The cops pepper-sprayed a black male and a 16-year-old girl after the two got into a struggle with officers, according to court documents. The cops called for backup and Nucera showed up.
As officers walked the couple to the patrol car, Nucera grabbed the male suspect and slammed the boy’s head into a metal doorjamb, even though, the complaint points out, the young man “was not kicking or struggling.” The suspect complained that he might have a concussion, but didn’t want to go to the hospital after Nucera miraculously cured the young man by hitting him again in the back of the neck. A few hours later, a police officer recorded Nucera making comments about the suspects, and black people in general.
“I tell you what, it’s going to get to the point where I could shoot one of these motherfuckers,” Nucera allegedly said in the recording. “And that nigger bitch lady, she almost got it.” The Courier-Post reports that Lucera went on to say:
http://www.theroot.com/police-chief-who-compared-black-people-to-isis-and-want-1820053428
An Ex-New Jersey Police chief has been charged with hate crimes and civil rights violations by federal prosecutors after revelations surfaced that he used dogs to attack black suspects, used hateful speech and physically attacked an African American teenager.
According to NJ.com, Frank Nucera, Jr. was the police chief in the small township of Bordentown, NJ until he abruptly retired in February 2017 after investigators began looking into his history of racially motivated violence and hate speech. Nucera came under scrutiny after an 18-year-old accused him of bashing his head into a doorway and officers recorded him calling black suspects the n-word multiple times.
William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, called Nucera’s actions “A shocking breach of the duty of every police officer to provide equal justice under the law and never to mistreat a person in custody.” Much of the evidence in the complaint comes from secret recordings made by one of Nucera’s fellow officers who was “increasingly alarmed by (Nucera’s) racist remarks and hostilities toward African Americans.”
https://www.scribd.com/document/363199533/Criminal-complaint-against-Frank-Nucera-Jr#from_embed
On September 1, 2016, police responded to the Bordentown Ramada for complaints of a fight between a couple who refused to pay for a room. The cops pepper-sprayed a black male and a 16-year-old girl after the two got into a struggle with officers, according to court documents. The cops called for backup and Nucera showed up.
As officers walked the couple to the patrol car, Nucera grabbed the male suspect and slammed the boy’s head into a metal doorjamb, even though, the complaint points out, the young man “was not kicking or struggling.” The suspect complained that he might have a concussion, but didn’t want to go to the hospital after Nucera miraculously cured the young man by hitting him again in the back of the neck. A few hours later, a police officer recorded Nucera making comments about the suspects, and black people in general.
“I tell you what, it’s going to get to the point where I could shoot one of these motherfuckers,” Nucera allegedly said in the recording. “And that nigger bitch lady, she almost got it.” The Courier-Post reports that Lucera went on to say:
I just, you know what? It would have been nice if that dog could have come up. ‘Cause they would have stopped, put down.
That dog, that dog will stop anything right then and there (makes dog sound). I’m telling you. You’d have seen two fucking niggers stop dead. I love when they do that. I just love that.
That dog, that dog will stop anything right then and there (makes dog sound). I’m telling you. You’d have seen two fucking niggers stop dead. I love when they do that. I just love that.
http://www.theroot.com/police-chief-who-compared-black-people-to-isis-and-want-1820053428