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| Members of URGENT in Garfield, New Jersey |
According to nj.com:
GARFIELD — Weeks before a grand
jury cleared police officers in the shooting of a local teenager last
year, a group of residents upset with the investigation bombarded the
Bergen County Prosecutor's Office with phone calls.
It had been three months since Malik Williams
was killed in a confrontation with police after fleeing the Garfield
police station where he was being booked, and few details had been
released.
Wayne Harper says he called three times himself.
"It was 90 days," he said recently. "We didn't hear anything at all."
Bergen Prosecutor John Molinelli fielded one of those calls from
Harper, warning him that if he called again he'd face harassment
charges. He called again.
In the year since, Harper has been fighting that single charge of
harassment in a Passaic County municipal court after being granted a
request for a venue change. A verdict was expected this week, but The Record reported that the judge, citing personal issues, had to again postpone a ruling.
"The bottom line is making phone calls to a public office isn't harassment," Harper said.
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"The bottom line is making phone calls to a public office isn't harassment." -Wayne Harper, URGENT Member
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