1.   For years, minority communities have complained that New Jersey troopers target black and Hispanic drivers for unwarranted stops and searches in trying to make drug arrests.

2.   Two days before the shooting, Whitehouse voiced his opposition to a proposed bill that would gather statistical data to determine whether state troopers are unfairly targeting minorities.

3.   Whitman has admitted that New Jersey state troopers improperly targeted blacks and other minorities for traffic stops.

4.   A year after the shooting, then-Attorney General Peter Verniero admitted state troopers had targeted minority drivers for drug prosecution.

5.   A year after the shooting, former Attorney General Peter Verniero admitted New Jersey troopers targeted minority drivers in certain cases.

6.   Black and Hispanic community leaders allege state troopers target minority drivers on the turnpike.

7.   Criticism came after minority motorists claimed they were targeted by troopers.

8.   Minority leaders have said Whitman was too slow to acknowledge that New Jersey State Police troopers were targeting minorities for traffic stops.

9.   The shootings fueled claims that State Police troopers routinely targeted minority motorists for traffic stops and drug prosecution on the turnpike.

10.   Verniero, now a state Supreme Court justice, has been criticized for not reacting early enough to reports that state troopers were targeting minority motorists.