Prosecutors have officially indicted a suburban New York police detective on hate crimes connected to a racist attack on a Black cell technician last year.

The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office released details on the new indictment against 41-year-old John Murphy, a detective with the Village of Rockville Centre Police Department.

On Nov. 3, 2024, the cellphone company employee, 48-year-old Derick Anwhere, was driving around a Long Island suburban neighborhood in his work-issued vehicle, surveying and inspecting cellphone towers to ensure the networks were properly transmitting service.

After inspecting one tower behind a residential cul-de-sac in Manorville, he parked his vehicle at a street corner to complete some paperwork.

A neighbor called Murphy to alert him about Anwher

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