Theodore Holloway, saying that he hired the officer who pulled him over (Paulsboro Police Department).
An elected official was not happy when police pulled him over for allegedly not stopping at a stop sign. He even threatened to talk to the police chief about it.
“You act as if I’m out here carrying a gun and smoking weed,” Councilmember Theodore Holloway from Paulsboro, New Jersey, said in bodycam footage dated Jan. 4. “I’m the one who hired you. I brought you in.”
“Really?” the officer said.
“Yes! Absolutely. On your camera,” Holloway said, addressing the body camera. “I put you on.”
“You actually pulled over an elected official,” Holloway said. “You’re not pulling over a random. You’re pulling over your boss.”
Holloway was emphatic that this traffic stop should not have happened, often citing his job.
“Don’t think I ain’t going talk to Gary about that s—,” he said.
“What does that have to do with anything?” the officer said.
“It’s got a lot to do with it,” Holloway said.
Gary Kille is the police chief of Paulsboro, New Jersey.
The first officer had pulled him over for allegedly failing to stop at a stop sign.
“I did stop,” Holloway said. “As much I can stop.”
The officer maintained that the council member rolled through the sign.
Later, Holloway asked a second officer at the scene, “You know who I am, right?”
Holloway did not immediately respond to a Law&Crime request for comment.
