It was a night of shouting and finger-pointing in Paterson over of Najee Seabrooks.
“Nobody in their partially-sane mind would expect that Najee Seabrooks who made a call for trauma, that the call would result in his death,” Melvin said. Melvin called for the officers responsible for Seabrooks’ death to be fired. “That a SWAT team with shields and weapons would respond to a call of an emotionally disturbed person is like sending a pack of wolves to rescue a sheep. And that type of mentality does not need to exist in Paterson.
Pruden then paraphrased Albert Einstein, who said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. “The Paterson Healing Collective is a different strategy, and Najee Seabrooks was a member of that team. I knew Najee, and he should not be dead. What are we going to do? I am working with the Paterson Healing Collective now, because this is another way.
People jammed the city council chambers to renew their demand that the Attorney General release all unedited audio and video of the incident. They also came expecting that the city council would vote on a resolution to establish a civilian complaint review board.
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