Theodore Holloway, saying that he hired the officer who pulled him over (Paulsboro Police Department).
An elected official did not take gladly to police pulling him over for allegedly rolling through a stop sign, going so far as to threaten to speak to the department’s chief.
“You act like I’m running around here with my f—ing gun totting, weed smoking,” Councilmember Theodore Holloway of Paulsboro, New Jersey, said on bodycam dated Jan. 4. “I’m the one that hired you. I bring you on.”
“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?”
The first officer let him go regarding the sign but issued him a citation for expired vehicle registration dating back to July 2024.
Holloway did not immediately respond to a Law&Crime request for comment.
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