HARRISBURG – The Gap has lost an attempt to dismiss consolidated litigation alleging several Derry Township police officers committed wrongful arrest and process by profiling and taking into custody Black women shopping at the store for supposed theft, before later releasing them when it was learned that they had in fact committed no crime.
Former federal Judge Thomas I. Vanaskie was instrumental in building two reentry programs for formerly incarcerated people, and he's still helping their participants rejoin society even after leaving the bench.
HARRISBURG – A Harrisburg woman who claimed that her 13-year-old son was racially targeted by management at a local Dollar Store, falsely accused of shoplifting and nearly arrested by police who responded to the scene has settled her claims.