State Troopers Resign

Two state troopers who were videotaped stopping and harassing minority motorists resigned Friday.

Troopers Kevin Goldberg and Howard Parker, who patrolled the New Jersey Turnpike in the early 1990s, told Acting State Police Superintendent Joseph "Rick" Fuentes that they were leaving their jobs Friday.

The two had been placed on desk duty last week after Goldberg's ex-wife turned the videotapes over to state police investigators. Linda Goldberg said she discovered the tapes while she was cleaning out a closet in their Hamilton home.

The documentary-style video, made in 1991, was filmed by an unknown person who apparently was sitting in the back of the troopers' patrol car. The video shows the troopers stopping and harassing several motorists, according to published reports.

Fuentes said the state police investigation of the matter continues.

Lt. Al Della Fave, a state police spokesman, has said the events were too old to be subject to criminal prosecution but that the troopers could face administrative sanctions.

The New Jersey State Police is under federal court supervision to end decades of practices that were found to discriminate against minority motorists. The racial profiling controversy came to a head after an April 1998 shooting of three minority motorists by two troopers during a turnpike traffic stop.

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