More than 350 law enforcement officers statewide — out of 38,000 — are named in the first-ever full year OAG discipline report. Firings and suspension incidents range from a TikTok video threat to body camera violations, DUI and sex crimes.
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In the post, she denounced the tactics of Black Lives Matter and asked people supporting the movement to unfriend her.
“Just to let you know they are terrorists,” she wrote in June 2020. “They hate me. They hate my uniform. They don’t care if I die.”
Several fellow Hopewell officers liked Ms. Erwin’s post or offered some support. One of them was Sgt. Mandy Gray, who had recently been promoted.
It prompted an internal department investigation. The police brass took no action, but the Township Committee voted unanimously on April 30 to fire Ms. Erwin. Ms. Gray was demoted and suspended for six months.