| $855 shoplifting arrest blows up on Facebook, so NJ cops release video |
Township police on Thursday released security video of a shoplifting arrest that has been brewing into a possible protest against police conduct.
The Jan. 9 arrest at the Target store in the Vauxhall section of the township may have otherwise gone unnoticed if not for a witness who went on a local Facebook group to write about what she saw.
“I just got home from the Vauxhall Target where a woman of color with two small children was tackled to the ground at the front entrance by two white male cops,” the South Orange resident shared with SOMA Justice, a Facebook group for South Orange and Maplewood residents interested about social justice and race issues. The conversation was picked up by The Village Green and other local news sites.
But video that police allowed New Jersey 101.5 to view on Thursday does not show police tackling the woman.
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