‘You know who I am, right?’: Councilmember in bodycam berates cops for pulling him over

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.