PBA calls for resignation of Paulsboro councilman after traffic stop beratement

The leader of a New Jersey police union called on a Paulsboro councilman to resign after body camera footage captured the councilman berating a police officer during a traffic stop earlier this month.

NJ Advance Media obtained footage showing Paulsboro Councilman Theodore Holloway II yelling profanities at an officer who pulled him over for running a stop sign. New Jersey State Policemen’s Benevolent Association President Peter Andreyev said Holloway should resign

“It is simply stunning to see the tremendous double standard at play in this situation,” Andreyev said in the release. “Time and again we see snippets of body camera footage used to denigrate and humiliate members of law enforcement who are putting their lives on the line each day to protect their communities and, yet, when we see a public official threaten and harass an officer for simply doing his job there are seemingly no consequences.”

“I’m the one that hired you!” Holloway told the officer. The councilman then called the police chief from his car before receiving a ticket for driving an unregistered vehicle.

Holloway did not answer NJ Advance Media’s requests for comment.

“If he can so casually threaten an officer for simply doing his job, then it is a fair question to wonder where else he is flaunting his power and position,” Andreyev said. “I am calling on Councilman Holloway to resign today for the good of the public he swore to serve, but nothing we saw on the body camera footage would lead me to believe he possesses the level of self-awareness required to come to that decision on his own.”