The family of Andrew Washington is calling upon the Attorney General to release missing portions of police body cam video that they say will paint a more accurate picture of the moments leading up to Washington’s death. Washington was shot by members of the Jersey City Police Department’s Emergency Services Unit on August 27 in […]
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Attorney General Releases Troubling Video of Andrew Washington Shooting
The New Jersey Attorney General tonight released a troubling 33-minute video of the moments leading up to and including the police shooting of 52-year-old Andrew Washington. The video is unlikely to quell calls for legal action against the officers involved and for changes to the way Jersey City responds to mental health emergencies. The principal […]
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An Aunt Reminisces and Plans March for a Fallen Nephew
Doris Toni Ervin likes to keep busy. It’s only then that she can stop thinking about her nephew, Drew. “Yesterday, I’m frying fish. That’s his favorite food. When I cook…he lives down the street…and I’m like, ‘Hey Drew, I cooked fish. You coming down?’” “‘Yeah, Aunt Toni, I’ll be down there,’” he’d respond. “I can’t […]
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Mass Shooting Reported in Front of Public Safety Building
As many as five people were shot last night in front of Jersey City’s new $120 million public safety building. According to multiple reports, the shooting took place last night at the corner of Martin Luther King Drive and Orient Avenue in Bergen-Lafayette, the location of the new building which opened in April. The shooting […]
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Activists Call for Change After Police Kill Bergen-Lafayette Man
A police killing in Bergen-Lafayette Sunday has renewed calls from social justice activists who say mental health professionals, not police officers, should respond to calls involving people going through mental crises. Sunday’s fatal encounter came five months after Paterson police shot and killed a man whose family said was exhibiting signs of mental illness, and […]
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In Emotional Vigil, Mourners Celebrate Andrew Washington and Demand Change
Last night, hundreds of mourners gathered in front of a simple wood frame house on Randolph Avenue to sing, pray, reminisce, rage and exhort. Inside, just two days earlier, their relative and neighbor Andrew Jerome Washington had been gunned down, felled by two bullets from a Jersey City police officer’s gun. The circumstances surrounding the […]
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Mayor Calls on Attorney General to Release Video in Fatal Police Shooting
At a news conference today Mayor Fulop called upon the New Jersey Attorney General to quickly release body-cam video of yesterday’s fatal confrontation between Jersey City police and an emotionally disturbed Bergen-Lafayette man. According to Fulop and Public Safety Director James Shea, 52-year-old Andrew Jerome Washington was shot with a firearm and taser by members […]
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Attorney General Investigating Fatal Police-Involved Shooting
The New Jersey Attorney General is investigating Sunday’s fatal police-involved shooting in Bergen-Lafayette. According to the Attorney General, the shooting, first reported by the Jersey City Times, took place at approximately 2:28 p.m. on Sunday when police officers from the Jersey City Police Department responded to a home on Randolph Avenue. Emergency medical services personnel […]
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Mentally ill Man Shot by Police Officer in Bergen-Lafayette
This article has been updated here. A mentally-ill Bergen-Lafayette man was shot this afternoon in a confrontation with a Jersey City police officer. The man was taken to Jersey City Medical Center in critical condition. According to one report that could not be confirmed, he succumbed to his injuries a short time later. The shooting […]
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Shooting Reported in Bergen-Lafayette
A person was shot tonight in Bergen-Lafayette. According to radio reports, at approximately 10:40 p.m. tonight an individual was shot in the right shoulder in the area of Jewett Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive. The police department’s “cease-fire” unit was on the scene to investigate. The mayor’s spokesperson did not immediately respond to a […]