Clark Township Mayor Sal Bonaccorso called his language “hurtful and insensitive…it was wrong. I’m embarrassed and ashamed to have spoken that way about a race of people. I have learned, and I have changed and it will not happen again,” he said in a video
He added that the protests started"a journey of awareness" for him, and that they"revealed his blind spots."
The mayor of Clark, New Jersey, was accused of repeatedly using hate-filled and racist remarks, and NBC New York obtained some of the recordings. Jonathan Dienst reports. The mayor addressed those remarks as well, saying they were"hurtful and I'm sorry. They were also part of a larger, difficult conversation we were having about performances of several officers employed by Clark."
The recordings also include conversations of Bonaccorso talking to the one-time Clark Police chief and a sergeant. One conversation centers on the Republican mayor having to apologize to the nearby city of Plainfield for a 2017 incident where girls basketball players complained about a puppet found hanging in a locker room.
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