The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office said there was not sufficient evidence to support criminal charges.
The incident was “properly reported and classified as a bias incident,” but the investigation did not reach the threshold for criminal charges, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Chief Thomas Bryan of the Edison Police Department said in a joint press release.
The New Jersey Council on American-Islamic Relations thanked the prosecutor’s office for investigating the incident during the Aug. 14 parade and welcomed their decision to classify it as a “bias incident,” in a statement on Friday.“The complainants reported that the float was an offensive and Islamophobic endorsement of the divisive practice of using heavy machinery to demolish homes of alleged criminals, protestors, and rioters in India.
amid the global pandemic and periods of racial unrest in New Jersey, data released by the New Jersey State Police and Division on Civil Rights shows.
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