Former NJ police chief arrested on federal hate crime and civil rights charges

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N.J. police chief said black people are 'like ISIS' and he'd like to be 'on the firing squad,' feds say

The former chief of a small township in New Jersey has been arrested on federal hate crime and civil rights charges for what federal authorities described as a pattern of racist comments and behavior — including slamming an African American teen's head into a metal door jamb and saying that black people are "like ISIS."

Frank Nucera Jr., 60, who had been chief of the Bordentown Township Police Department, was arrested Monday, and the charges against him were unsealed Tuesday. The allegations are notable for the blatant racism they describe in a law enforcement leader.

 

[fat wee robin]

Well I don't know exactly what he meant ,but I do know that as a generalisation they can be very anti- social and noisy, having experienced this a lot in the past .

 

[majj27]

Well I don't know exactly what he meant ,but I do know that as a generalisation they can be very anti- social and noisy, having experienced this a lot in the past .

Who, police chiefs?

 

[Landon Caeli]

Such bad luck couldnt have happened to a better guy. Hoping everything works out well for the Chief.

 

[SummerMadness]

For those who may have trouble with paywall articles:
Police chief accused of racially-motivated beating of handcuffed black teen

A former police chief with a history of uttering racial slurs beat a handcuffed black teenager after an arrest at a hotel last year, authorities said Wednesday.
Civil rights and hate crime charges against former Bordentown Township police Chief Frank Nucera Jr., 60, are expected to be discussed at an 11 a.m. press conference at the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey's Camden office, according to a statement.

In the Sept. 1, 2016 incident, two officers responded to the Bordentown Ramada because the teen and a 16-year-old girl failed to pay for their hotel room after swimming in the pool that afternoon, the complaint says.

The teens got into a physical struggle with the two cops in a hallway and were placed in handcuffs, the complaint says. Police pepper-sprayed the 18-year-old and called for backup, the complaint says.

While the teens were being walked to a patrol car, Nucera grabbed the 18-year-old's head and slammed it into the right side of a metal doorjamb separating the hallway from the stairwell, according to the complaint.

When the teen complained, Nicera hit him in the back of the neck with his arm, the complaint says.

Hours after the arrest, one of the officers who was at the hotel recorded Nucera making racially hostile comments about the two teens and blacks in general, the complaint says. Nucera used the n-word, as well as other racial slurs.

 

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Bordentown police chief called President Trump ‘the last hope for white people,’ a South Jersey officer testifies

A South Jersey police officer testified Monday that Bordentown Police Chief Frank Nucera Jr. routinely used racial slurs and compared blacks to ISIS and said President Trump “is the last hope for white people.”

The explosive testimony came in the second week of Nucera’s hate-crime assault trial in U.S. District Court in Camden. The now-former chief is also charged with a civil rights violation and lying to the FBI.

The prosecution’s star witness, Sgt. Nathan Roohr, a K-9 officer in the Burlington County department, said Nucera grabbed the head of Timothy Stroye “like a basketball” and slammed it into a metal door jam during an encounter at a Bordentown hotel. Stroye, a handcuffed black suspect, was in police custody.