Politics

A Piscataway couple was paid half a million dollars to settle their suit which alleged a beating by state troopers in a patrol vehicle and in the police barracks.

Jermaine and his wife Louise Rudd sued the New Jersey State Police in 2016, stating that six troopers also named in the suit "assaulted, battered and otherwise violently attacked" Jermaine Rudd after his DWI arrest on Dec. 24, 2014 by trooper Nitesh Patel with the assistance of Thomas Gamaro, Joe Villa, Oczkos Blazeg, Julio Mota and Gerrad Vega.

Read the source article at nj.com