New Jersey's Department of Corrections has removed an officer after a video purportedly showed him mocking the death of George Floyd.
Till was only 14 when he was murdered after being accused of offending a white woman in her family’s store. Now, in the wake of George Floyd’s death, there are renewed calls for an anti-lynching law.New Jersey's Department of Corrections has removed an officer after a video purportedly showed him mocking the death ofThe agency tweeted Tuesday that"removal charges have been served" on the officer, who was identified by the local union as Joseph DeMarco.
DeMarco had previously been suspended and banned from facilities"pending a thorough and expedited investigation," according to a statement from the department.Sullivan said the union would not be representing DeMarco, who could not be reached by ABC News. The video that showed DeMarco and other white men was taken at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in the New Jersey township of Franklinville on June 8. As protesters peacefully marched along a road, a white man is seen kneeling on the back of another's neck, imitating the way in which Floyd was killed.
George Floyd is pictured in an undated photo released by the office of Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump.Prosecutors have said Floyd, a black man, died after former officer Derek Chauvin, a white man, kneeled on his neck for nearly eight minutes.Another unnamed individual who took part in the video -- a FedEx employee -- has been fired.
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