Two Clark police officers caught using racial slurs can be fired, a judge has ruled, rejecting their claims that the investigation against them took so long they shouldn’t face discipline.
The decision strikes a blow to efforts by Clark Police Chief Pedro Matos and Sgt. Joseph Teston to keep their jobs, despite being secretly recorded using epithets that included the n-word.
It represents the latest development in a long-running racism scandal that roiled the suburban community in Union County, cost local taxpayers millions of dollars and led to the downfall of its longtime mayor, Sal Bonaccorso…