First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens’ Senior Pastor, the Rev. DeForest “Buster” Soaries, right, presents an award to then-U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman in 2015. Soaries received word in February that Fishman’s office would not seek civil rights charges against two FTPD officers involved in the shooting death of Diahlo Grant.
In what is one of the best-kept secrets in the township, the two Franklin Township Police officers involved in the April 9, 2016 shooting death of a township resident will not face a federal civil rights investigation.
Although that determination was made in February, township officials reached for comment said they had not heard about it, and the person who asked for the investigation placed a statement about the denial in an online publication based in a town not involved in the incident.
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