A New Jersey police sergeant has been charged with stealing a photojournalist’s camera equipment after she was injured while covering a protest outside an immigration detention center in Newark, authorities said.
Sgt. Darryl Brown, 43, of Sparta Township, was charged with third-degree theft after an investigation by the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office and the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability. Prosecutors allege Brown took approximately $10,000 worth of cameras and related equipment belonging to an Associated Press photojournalist who was covering demonstrations at Delaney Hall on May 30.
According to investigators, the journalist was injured during the protest and transported to a nearby hospital for treatment, leaving behind a camera bag containing professional equipment. Authorities allege Brown, who had been deployed to the protest site, later took unlawful possession of the bag…