MONTCLAIR – On July 30th, The New Jersey Senate unanimously passed S-2635, sponsored by Senator Nia Gill, which includes false incrimination and filing a false police report as a form of bias intimidation and establishes the crime of a false 9-1-1 call with the purpose to intimidate or harass based on race or other protected class.

In May of 2020, a white woman walking her dog in Central Park in New York called the police on a Black birdwatcher after he asked her to leash her dog… READ MORE