NJ AG Releases Video In Fatal Cop-Involved Clifton Crash

CLIFTON, NJ — The Attorney General’s Office has released security camera footage from an Oct. 22 accident in which a police officer struck and killed a 65-year-old woman with his vehicle in Clifton.

The recording includes limited video taken from a security camera near where the accident occurred.

It was released online at this link.

This investigation dates back to Oct. 22, when Clifton Police Officer Garrell Middleton "was responding to a radio alert of a crime in progress with the emergency lights on his patrol vehicle activated" when he struck a pedestrian at the intersection of Allwood Road and Brookwood Road.

Middleton provided medical aid to the victim, the AG's Office said, and emergency medical personnel transported her to St. Joseph’s University Medical Center in Paterson, where she was pronounced dead at 7:42 p.m.

The investigation is ongoing and no further information is being released at this time, the AG's Office said.

It comes after a state law was enacted in January, which requires the Attorney General’s Office to conduct investigations of a person’s death that occurs during an encounter with a law enforcement officer acting in the officer’s official capacity, or while the decedent is in custody.