Man's Death After Brick Police Arrest Probed: NJ Attorney General
BRICK, NJ — The New Jersey Attorney General's Office is investigating after a man died Thursday following an encounter with Brick Township police, authorities said. The man's identity has not been released.According to the preliminary investigation, shortly after 4:27 p.m. on Thursday Brick Township police were dispatched to Wisteria Drive and Vermont Drive in the Lake Riviera section, where they found a man "in a state of active distress in the street," the attorney general's office said. Officers handcuffed the man and took him out of the street to a nearby grassy area, the attorney general's office said. EMS also responded and provided medical attention, and the man was taken to Ocean University Medical Center in Brick Township, where he was pronounced dead at the hospital at approximately 5:48 p.m., the attorney general's office said. The investigation is continuing, the attorney general's office said, and nothing more was being released, authorities said.A 2019 law, N.J.S.A. 52:17B-107(a)(2), requires the Attorney General’s Office to conduct investigations of a person’s death that occurs during an encounter with a law enforcement officer acting in the officer’s official capacity or while the decedent is in custody. It requires that all such investigations be presented to a grand jury to determine if the evidence supports the return of an indictment against the officer or officers involved.The article Man's Death After Brick Police Arrest Probed: NJ Attorney General appeared first on Brick, NJ Patch.
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