Reparations? Anti-Racist Training? Amherst Officials Demanding Changes In Town’s Police Department Over Late-Night Interaction With Teen-Agers

A late-night interaction between police and teen-agers in Amherst over a noise complaint and a broken-down car has led some town officials to demand reparations for victims of police harassment.

The town's Community Safety & Social Justice Committee has called for creating a victims compensation fund under the committee's jurisdiction. The town's Human Rights Commission declared the incident "a human rights violation."