‘This Was a Hate Crime’: Ex-Cop and Relative Attack Black Executive and Man Who Intervened While Hurling Racial Slurs In New Hampshire Parking Lot, Takes Nearly a Year for Charges
New Hampshire’s attorney general filed a civil rights complaint against a former police officer accused of assaulting a Black bank executive last year in downtown Portsmouth. The action, filed Oct. 29 in Rockingham County Superior Court, alleges former Portsmouth police sergeant Aaron Goodwin was motivated by race when he assaulted Mamadou Dembele outside Gilley’s Diner…