Racial Profiling Case Settles for $12 Million
State officials agreed to pay $12.9 million to the four victims of a 1998 police shooting on the New Jersey Turnpike that caused a national furor over racial profiling.
The state did not admit any wrongdoing in settling the civil suit.
The four men--three black, one Latino--were pulled over near Trenton as they headed to a North Carolina college. Three of them were injured in the shooting.
Two white troopers, John Hogan and James Kenna, said they stopped the van for speeding. They said they fired 11 shots at the vehicle when driver Keyshon Moore put the van in reverse as the officers approached on foot.
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