🔴 A 14-year-old was charged with killing a Newark police officer
🔴 He can never be tried as an adult
🔴 Attorney General Matt Platkin supports a change for ‘extreme situations’
New Jersey’s liberal attorney general supports changing the state’s age restriction on trying teens 14 and under as adults.
During an unrelated event on Thursday, Attorney General Matt Platkin was asked if the law should be changed in the case of “extreme situations.”
“I think anyone who attacks and kills a police officer should be tried as an adult. Period. And I would support a change in the law that would allow that,” Platkin said.
Cop-killing teen is protected
Under current law, a juvenile age 14 and under cannot, under any circumstances, be waived up to Superior Court to face justice as an adult…