By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated November 10, 2023
Black New Jersey police officer Chian Weekes-Rivera is suing Maplewood Township, the police department, and Maplewood police captain Peter Kuenzel. Weekes-Rivera says she was subjected to “disciplinary action for having Black hair.”
Weekes-Rivera is asserting that her rights under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD) were violated.
In 2019, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed the Create a Respectful and Open World for
