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Police arrested six protesters Tuesday who tried to disrupt the start of land-based testing for New Jersey’s first offshore wind farm OCEAN CITY, N.J. -- Police arrested six protesters Tuesday who tried to disrupt the start of land-based testing for New Jersey's first offshore wind farm. But the work progressed anyway. Police in Ocean City, which has become the hub of resistance to offshore wind projects in New Jersey and elsewhere along the U.S. East Coast, arrested demonstrators after the city said they failed to heed four warnings to get out of the roadway. “There were three people lying in the street,” said Robin Shaffer, a spokesman for Protect Our Coast NJ, a residents' group opposed to the local project and to offshore wind in general. Each of the protesters, none of whom lived in Ocean City, was charged with failure to disperse and obstruction of public pathways, city spokesman Doug Bergen said. Mayor Jay Gillian, himself an opponent of the wind farm project, said he w...

As investigators continue to probe the death of school teacher Keenan Anderson, they have released video and details about his Jan. 3 encounter with police officers. There are growing demands for answers over the death of a 31-year-old Washington D.C. teacher hours after he was repeatedly shocked by a Los Angeles Police Department Taser during an arrest that was filmed on a police body camera. Keenan Anderson, the cousin of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, died at a hospital on Jan. 3 about four and a half hours after he was shocked, police allege. Anderson, while visiting L.A., was stopped by an LAPD motorcycle officer when witnesses flagged down the officer about a traffic accident. Initially, Anderson appeared to have been a witness running in the street, but others in the area pointed toward him as causing the accident, police body camera footage showed. A screengrab of a video released by LAPD on YouTube shows the LAPD interaction with Keenan Anderson, who died a...