Black Lives Matter demonstrations in New Jersey have been largely peaceful, but a rally in Englewood Cliffs last month has been getting a lot of attention after 18-year-old Emily Gil organized an event and promptly received a bill from the town for $2,500. The mayor has since rescinded the fee, which was going to cover police overtime. He says it’s part of the town’s protocol to bill event organizers for any costs incurred. Gil is calling it an intimidation tactic.
Englewood Cliffs protest organizer calls police overtime bill ‘intimidation tactic’
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An Emmy award-winning journalist, Briana Vannozzi serves as the anchor for NJ Spotlight News, the newsroom of NJ PBS. She's worked in several capacities since joining the news division in 2012, as interim anchor and senior correspondent after years of general assignment reporting as a multimedia journalist. Vannozzi began her television journalism career by cutting her teeth on New Jersey State House politics for New Jersey Network News, and later as a news radio correspondent at FM News 101.9 covering crime and politics in New York City. Her work has taken her to national presidential nominating conventions, Capitol Hill, up and down the East Coast and every corner of the Garden State. She's interviewed every New Jersey governor dating back to Jon Corzine and moderated numerous political debates and forums. Her work has also earned awards from the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists and the Philadelphia Press Association. A Burlington County native, she's honored to be serving and covering her home state and raising her family there.