No charges in police shooting of senior

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A state grand jury this week voted against criminal charges for a New Brunswick police officer who shot and killed a senior citizen last year.

A team of police met Deborah Terrell, 68, in a high-rise on Aug. 8 after someone reported she was threatening neighbors with a knife. After officers shot her with pepper spray and stun gun, Officer Josue Plaza shot twice at Terrell when she approached them holding the knife.

Her family declined to comment. Zayid Muhammad, lead organizer of New Jersey Communities for Accountable Policing, called cops’ conduct during their encounter with Terrell “bad on all sides.”

“And then after Ms. Terrell had been wounded terribly, they literally dragged her body down the hallway like it was a sack of garbage. No one has explained or even addressed why that happened,” Muhammad told Dana DiFilippo.

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Schools: A conservative law firm that has opposed pro-transgender policies in schools is warning New Jersey to rescind its guidance that allows school officials to not notify parents if their child is questioning or attempting to change their gender at school. This comes a few months after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a preliminary order in a case that observers believe could put these kinds of policies in jeopardy.

Courts: An appellate panel on Wednesday limited the kinds of internal affairs documents defendants in criminal cases can receive. Prosecutors must share information with defendants that is favorable to their defense, including evidence that could raise doubt about a cop witnesses’ honesty. But that does not mean that defendants can necessarily obtain IA docs about investigations into cops that have not concluded yet, the court ruled.

Delaney Hall: Federal Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told NewsNation that Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo, the Delaney Hall inmate who died Saturday, died of cardiac arrest. “He had a cardiac arrest during lunch at like 1:52. We immediately called 911. Started doing a CPR on him at 2, roughly around 2:13. EMT showed up, took custody of him, transported him to the hospital, and he died at the hospital, not in our custody,” said Mullin.

D.C.: President Trump told the U.S. Senate it should proceed with a bill that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent, a move that would take the dark winter afternoons that people seem to hate and replace them with dark winter mornings that people are going to hate. “People are sick and tired of having to change their clocks twice a year,” Trump wrote in a social media post.