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Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Unpaid Parking Tickets Lead to Controversy
A Princeton University professor stopped by local police for speeding last Saturday and arrested due to an active warrant for three-year-old unpaid parking tickets took to social media this week to say she was treated “inappropriately and disproportionately. The fact of my blackness is not incidental to this matter,” she posted on Facebook. Princeton Police Chief Nicholas Sutter said Monday that he has opened an investigation into the incident involving Imani Perry, the University’s Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies, and has asked the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office to assist. The incident has attracted national attention. According to Mr. Sutter, Ms. Perry was driving at 67 miles per hour on Mercer Street, a 45-mile-per-hour zone, when she was pulled over by officers. When it was determined that she had unpaid parking tickets, the officers followed procedure “per policy and state law,” he said, handcuffed her and took her into custody. On Twitter, Ms. Perry wrote that the officers would not allow her to make a phone call until after her arrest, and said she was given a body search and then handcuffed to a table at police
headquarters before being released. “The response I have received since sharing my story has been overwhelmingly caring and thoughtful,” she wrote Monday on Facebook. “Many people are vigilant and impassioned these days regarding policing. This is a direct result of the social movement that has emerged over the last several years. That is good.” Ms. Perry continued, “And it personally feels wonderful to be so supported. However, there are quite a few people
who seem upset that I received support. Mostly they are suggesting that I am playing ‘innocent’ when I am ‘guilty.’ What they fail to understand is that I did not purport to be without fault. Now, make no mistake, I do not believe I did anything wrong. But even if I did, my position holds.” She goes on to say she was treated unfairly. “… We already know it IS the standard protocol for people in poor Black, Indigenous, and Latino communities to experience disproportionate police surveillance,
Princeton Council voted 4-2 Monday to adopt a bond ordinance that paves the way for the purchase of 20.4 acres of open land, located on the Princeton Ridge between Route 206 and Mt. Lucas Road. The heavily wooded property, to be maintained as open space, was acquired for $4.4 million, a deal that included $2.2 million in funding from the Mercer County Continued on Page 4 Open Space Fund, $153,000 from the Williams Transco pipeline project, $100,000 from Friends of Princeton Open Space (FOPOS), and $1.7 million from the New Jersey Green Acres Program. “I really think this is something that is Immigration Customs Enforcement (LALDEF) have been in touch with the just what we have an open space tax for,” (ICE) officials detained two men outside other residents on Wiggins Street to offer said Wendy Mager, who heads FOPOS a Wiggins Street home last Thursday assistance and support as needed. and was one of several people who spoke at about 5 a.m. Further details are not “Several people were detained,” stated during the public hearing. The $4.4 million available at this point, but the Princeton Councilwoman Heather Howard at Monis “a bargain price,” she said. Architect Department of Human Services reports, day night’s Princeton Council meeting. Ron Berlin called the land “a destination ”We have been working alongside the “This is not local law enforcement. We and a haven,” adding, “I think this is a big Police Department and community part- believe the men were taken to a detention deal — so worth keeping.” ners to get more information about this center in Elizabeth, but we don’t know if Every person who came to the microICE activity.” they have been moved from there.” Ms. phone spoke in favor of the purchase. Human Services and the Latin Ameri- Howard emphasized her concern, “Fear Former Princeton Township Mayor Phylcan Legal Defense and Education Fund Continued on Page 10 lis Marchard said, “I cannot understand how anybody could oppose this bond ordinance.” Resident Scotia Macrae said, VALENTINE'S SPECIALS “Some have argued that we can’t afford VALENTINE'S SPECIA to make this purchase. But there are many CHOOSE ONE APPETIZER:CHOOSE ONE APPETIZER of us who believe that we can’t afford not CLAMS CASINO to.” Jim Waltman, executive director of the CLAMS CASINO Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed AssoOYSTERSONE ON A APPETIZER: HALF SHELL CHOOSE OYSTERSONE ON A APPETIZER HALF SHELL CHOOSE ciation said the tract is “an extraordinary natural piece of land,” adding, “There is BABY CRAB CAKES CLAMS CASINO BABY CRAB CAKES CLAMS CASINO no more sound investment you can make OYSTERS ON A HALF SHELL OYSTERS ON A HALF SHELL than protecting open space.” CHOOSE TWO ENTREES: CHOOSE TWO ENTREES BABY CRAB CAKES Council member Bernie Miller continBABY CRAB CAKES TWIN BABY LOBSTER TAILS ued to voice his opposition to the purTWIN BABY LOBSTER TAILS CHOOSE TWO ENTREES: chase, voting against it along with PatCHOOSE TWO ENTREES 1/2 MAINE LOBSTER STUFFED W/ CRAB IMPERIAL 1/2 MAINE LOBSTER STUFFED W/ CRAB rick Simon. Mr. Miller voiced objections to TWIN BABY LOBSTER TAILS TWIN BABY LOBSTER TAILS emails from FOPOS, which he said disLOBSTER STUFFED W/ CRAB IMPERIAL DINNERS INCLUDE: 1/2 MAINE LOBSTER STUFFED W/ CRAB torted comments he made at the Council 1/2 MAINEALL ALL DINNERS INCLUDE meeting two weeks earlier. “It was not that POTATOESPORTUGUESE BREAD GARLIC SMASHED POTATOESPORTUGU ALL DINNERS INCLUDE: I said Princeton has enough open space, GARLIC SMASHED ALL DINNERS INCLUDE but that it has met the goal for years,” he GARLIC VALENTINE'S SPECIALS MIXED GREENS W/ ROASTED GARLIC SMASHED POTATOESPORTUGUESE BREAD MIXEDVINAIGRETTE GREENS W/ ROASTED GARLIC VI GARLIC SMASHED POTATOESPORTUGU said. “Much of our existing open space is GREENS W/COVERED ROASTED STRAWBERRIES GARLIC VINAIGRETTE MIXED GREENS W/COVERED ROASTED STRAWBE GARLIC VI under utilized and hard to get to. Trails are MIXEDCHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE VALENTINE'S SPECIALS under-maintained.” Open Space funds are CHOCOLATE COVERED STRAWBERRIES CHOCOLATE COVERED TULIPS STRAWBE SWEETHEART TULIPS SWEETHEART CHOOSE ONE APPETIZER: about maintaining land as well as acquirSWEETHEART TULIPS SWEETHEART TULIPS CLAMS CASINO ing it, he added. 1/2 OYSTERS ON A HALF SHELL CHOOSE ONE APPETIZER: It was Jo Butler whose “yes” vote BABY CRAB CAKES CLAMS CASINO pushed the ordinance through, but only 1/2 OYSTERS ON A HALF SHELL AVAILABLE FEB 12th, 13th & after she asked several questions and CHOOSE TWO ENTREES: AVAILABLE FEB 12th, 13th & 14th 14thAVAILABLE AVAILABLE FEB FEB 12th, 12th, 13th 13th & & 14 14 BABY CRAB CAKES expressed her thoughts for and against TWIN BABY LOBSTER TAILS PLEASE ORDER 24 HOURS IN ADVANCE GAR PLEASE ORDER 24 HOURS IN ADVA PLEASE 24 HOURS IN ADVANCE ON THE ROAD: The road ORDER is the one between the Mountain Lakes House and Mountain Avenue in the Bill Johnson Mountain the measure. PLEASE ORDER 24 HOURS IN ADVA CHOOSE TWO ENTREES:
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