The Rev. DeForest B. Soaries, right, has asked U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman, left, to investigate the Diahlo Grant case. The two are pictured here in January 2015, when Soaries presented Fishman with the First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens’ Martin Luther King Jr. Service Award.
Following through on a promise made in July, the Rev. DeForest “Buster” Soaries Oct. 24 called on the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey to launch a two-pronged investigation into the police shooting of a 27-year-old township man.
In an Oct. 24 letter to U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman, Soaries asked for an investigation into whether Grant’s civil rights were violated by township police, and whether the investigation by Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew Carey’s office was tainted by racial bias.
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