When a Town Tries to Criminalize a Disabled Black Woman for Driving While Existing:
The Glen Ridge Municipal Court’s Unconstitutional Power Grab
By Freedom Watch Investigative Desk
November 23, 2025
Glen Ridge, New Jersey: Meet Naomi Johnson: ordained minister, host of the Noneillah Talk Show, a medically disabled Black woman with chronic pain, PTSD, and mobility impairments. On February 24, 2025, she was traveling privately in her 1995 Mustang (handicap plates, ministerial plaque, groceries in the back) when Glen Ridge Police Sergeant Anthony Mazza decided to turn a routine drive into a nine-month nightmare.
Here’s the part the Glen Ridge Municipal Court doesn’t want you to know:
The stop, the tickets, the tow, and the bench warrant that still hangs over Naomi’s head never happened in Glen Ridge at all.
Body-camera audio is crystal clear: Sgt. Mazza radioed headquarters at timestamp 26:19 and announced he was making the stop at Woodland Avenue and Willowdale Avenue — in MONTCLAIR, not Glen Ridge. Yet the tickets he wrote claim “Glen Ridge.” The tow happened in Montclair. The disabled woman was left to limp home in freezing weather — in Montclair.
So how exactly did Glen Ridge Municipal Court Judge Mark Clemente, Prosecutor Elizabeth Brewster, and Court Administrator Denise C. Iandolo claim the power to issue a bench warrant against her?
They didn’t. They just did it anyway.
No Territorial Jurisdiction Glen Ridge officers have zero authority to write enforceable traffic tickets in Montclair without a valid mutual-aid agreement or hot-pursuit situation. Neither existed. No agreement has ever been produced — because Naomi demanded it in multiple filings and the court went silent.
No Subject-Matter Jurisdiction New Jersey municipal courts only have jurisdiction over offenses committed within the municipality. The alleged infractions occurred entirely in Montclair. Game over.
No Personal Jurisdiction Naomi challenged jurisdiction in writing more than a dozen times — motions to dismiss, notices of special appearance, demands for proof of jurisdiction. Every single one was ignored or “deemed not filed.” That is not due process; that is tyranny in black robes.
The Coercive Warrant Scam On May 14, 2025, Judge Clemente issued a bench warrant with a $500 bounty — for two tickets that do not even require a court appearance. When Naomi pointed this out, Clemente’s response (in a July 25 email) was breathtaking:
“If you just pay the tickets online, I’ll recall the warrant and you won’t have to appear.”
Translation: Pay us money under threat of arrest, or we’ll keep hunting you — even though we have no lawful power over you. That’s textbook extortion wearing a judicial robe.
- Disability Discrimination in Open View Naomi repeatedly requested ADA accommodations (remote appearance — she can barely walk some days). Clemente’s suggestion? “Use the public library computer.” When she explained that triggers tremors and PTSD, the court ghosted her and denied OPRA requests for their own ADA policy manual.
- Prosecutor Elizabeth Brewster — Missing in Action Brewster has never once attempted to prove jurisdiction. She has ignored every motion, every constitutional challenge, every demand to produce the mutual-aid agreement. Her silence is complicity.
- Court Administrator Denise C. Iandolo — The Gatekeeper of Injustice Iandolo processes warrants, schedules hearings, and controls the docket. She is the one who kept “losing” Naomi’s filings, who allowed a warrant to issue on tickets that require no appearance, who helped maintain the fiction that Glen Ridge had any authority here at all.
This is not a “traffic case.” This is a coordinated effort by a judge, a prosecutor, and a court clerk to criminalize a disabled Black woman who had the nerve to know her rights — in a town with a documented history of racial profiling lawsuits and excessive-force settlements.
As of today, November 23, 2025, Naomi Johnson — a minister, a journalist, a disabled American citizen — still has an active bench warrant hovering over her head for the crime of driving while Black, disabled, and constitutionally literate in the wrong zip code.
The question for Glen Ridge isn’t whether they’ll fix this. The question is how long they think they can keep getting away with it before the federal courthouse in Newark opens a very different kind of case.
We’re watching.
And so should you.
#NoneillahTalkShow #GlenRidgeInjustice #EndQualifiedImmunity #ADAviolations #NoJurisdictionNoWarrant
Mark Clemente
Judge of Municipal Court
Denise C. Iandolo
Municipal Court Administrator
Violations Clerk
Eliabeth Brewster, Esq.
Borough Prosecutor
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