Entitled Jersey councilmember curses out officer during traffic stop: ‘I am literally your boss!’

A Democratic New Jersey councilmember was seen on video reprimanding a police officer after he was pulled over for a traffic violation.

Paulsboro Councilman Theodore D. Holloway II unloaded a profanity-filled tirade against the officer in bodycam footage released from the incident earlier this month. According to court records, Holloway blasted the officer who explained that he allegedly ran a stop sign at Penn Line Road and West Adams Street.

The mayor later commented on the “unfortunate incident” that ended up involving a supervisor and the borough’s police chief.

(Video Credit: Paulsboro Police Department)

“You can’t be serious. What exactly are you getting behind me for?” the veteran elected official asked.

“Don’t think I ain’t going to talk to Gary about this,” Holloway said, referring to Paulsboro Police Chief Gary Kille.

“What’s that got to do with anything?” the officer asked.

“You know me. You act like I’m running around here mother——— gun-toting, weed-smoking. I’m the one that hired you,” Holloway yelled at the officer who asked, “Why are you acting like this?”

“You actually pulled over an elected official,” Holloway said as he then placed a call to the police chief from his car. “You’re not pulling over a random. You’re pulling over your boss. I am literally your boss.”

The officer called a supervisor from his patrol car, saying, “He’s freaking out. I don’t know what’s going on with him.”

When the supervisor arrived, the Democrat councilman asked, “You know who I am, right?”

“I know who you are, sir,” replied the supervisor.

“Anyway, chief, please talk with them,” Holloway told the police chief who was on the phone with him.

“You’re wasting your time, you’re wasting the taxpayer money that I pay you guys to do, for what?” he berated the officers before him.

He was given a citation for an expired registration but not given a ticket for allegedly running the stop sign.

“We’ve spoken to him with our legal team and went over the issues that we had, and I just think it was an unfortunate incident that shouldn’t have happened,” Paulsboro Mayor John Giovannitt said. “It’s never happened in the past and it can’t happen again.”

“It’s not the response that an elected official should share with our police,” the mayor added.

Giovannitti told Fox News Digital that Holloway’s remarks were “not accurate nor professional.”

“We don’t get special treatment,” he said. “We are not individual bosses for departments, and we don’t get special treatment.”

Frieda Powers

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