Even Now, The New Jersey Controllers Can’t Admit They Were Wrong
BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 8 months ago
Recall the case of the NJ security guard arrested for carrying PD ammunition? Well, there’s a development.
New Jersey prosecutors dropped a felony charge against a security guard who was pulled over for driving with tinted windows and then charged with violating gun laws, prosecutors informed Newsweek on Friday. Roosevelt Twyne’s case illustrates how the state’s intricate gun restrictions can ensnare residents, multiple experts said.
Roselle Park police officers stopped Twyne, 25, in early February as he was returning home from work in his personal vehicle because, they said, he was driving with tinted windows. Twyne, a black man who works for the Brinks armored car company, was also transporting a handgun he believed he was legally permitted to carry for his job under the state’s restrictive licensing laws.
However, officers charged him with two gun-related offenses: One violation of the state’s firearm transport ban and another pertaining to hollow point bullets. The latter charge was dropped after Union County prosecutors decided the ammunition Twyne was carrying was not illegal. Until Friday, prosecutors were seeking an additional charge on the transport ban.
“I was simply a block away from getting home after work,” Twyne told Newsweek. “I never thought I would be arrested, charged and have my life turned upside down over New Jersey’s convoluted gun laws, especially when I was a fully licensed, trained security officer.”
The prosecutor’s office said Friday it concluded that his alleged breach of the law was not intentional.
“This Office has elected to exercise its prosecutorial discretion and has administratively dismissed all charges pending against Mr. Twyne,” the office said in a statement to Newsweek. “It is not in the interests of justice to continue his prosecution.”
They should have said that there was no “breach of the law” and that their police officers are idiots and they should try to improve hiring practices to focus away from sociopaths.
Instead, they said they are electing to exercise “prosecutorial discretion.”
Like I said before, New Jersey is a hell hole. I wouldn’t travel there (or even fly over the state) if it was the last place on earth.
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On March 16, 2020 at 1:28 pm, Henry said:
“Ignorance of the law is no excuse.”
Unless you have a badge, then it is an ironclad excuse.