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Self-professed 'nice kid' fatally mowed down Cranford girls at 70 mph, court papers allege
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One of the victims had a restraining order against the alleged killer. Nothing was still done. I hope a jury of his peers finds him guilty, locks him up, and throws away the key.
Nothing was done because he was related to a police officer. I’m sure they thought the restraining order was an overreaction and “he’s such a nice boy”. Giving condolences is far too little, too late.
Probably should put the officer on paid leave until an investigation is completed. Preferably by an outside company, but that would never happen.
The officer is in a different town and isn’t closely related. Some NJ families of Italian ancestry have hundreds of members in the area and aren’t close with most of them.
That's all good information that would have come up, the fact that he is NOT his son would wrap up most of the conflict of interests pretty quick.
It would come up in an investigation but IDK that many here would know what these families are like. I grew up not far from here and know lots of families like this where their 4th cousin lives three towns over but the families aren’t close.
The way I read it his dad was a cop, and his distant family member was the police chief who we are saying wouldn't have anything to do with not following up on the reporting. Maybe the body of text under the article got me confused. Any way about it, they should verify the report was followed up on through the standard process and make sure no officers of any relation were tied to altering that process.
Side note, I have one of those 10+ letter Sicilian last names with parents from the state of NY (not city), so I get what you mean when you say our families aren't necessarily always close.
Shit, I don't see my first cousins but about once a decade. 4th cousin is nothing to me. I couldn't even possibly trace my family that far sideways.