Three NJ Troopers Being Sued Over Traffic Stop Beating of Black Man
Sunday, March 20, 2005 at 09:12PM
TheSpook
Incident Caught On Tape
Three
New Jersey troopers are being sued for the way they handled a routine
traffic stop. That stop turned into a violent altercation. Now the
motorist is suing but the cops say, the case has no merit at all and
they have the police tape to prove it. Aundrey Green’s car was pulled
over in southern New Jersey’s Cumberland County in April of 2002.
Troopers say he was going 105 miles an hour, then lied about his name,
and didn’t have a valid license. So, Green was cuffed and put in the
back of a police cruiser. There was now two cop cars on the scene along
with four state troopers. That is when he had a heated exchange with an
officer in the car with him. Green told the cop he had to urinate. Cop:
“I don’t have a bathroom in this car you have to wait. Do not go to the
bathroom in the back of my car. Do not do it!” Green: “I’m telling you.
I cannot hold it no more.” Cop: “So just hold it.” Soon after, the
officer exits the vehicle, comes around to the passenger side door and
indicates Green took his handcuffs off (HUH? -BW). The officer then
demands that Green get out of the car. Cop: “Get out of the car!”
Green: “Get out of the car! For what?” Cop: “Cause I told you to.”
Green: “But I ain’t do nothing” The tape appears to show troopers
punching and kicking but it is unclear if the blows ever hit Green.
Officers also appear to use pepper spray. In any case, Green’s lawyer
says the officers were way out of line. “Even if Mr. Green was wrong in
failing to get out of the vehicle, it does not justify the subsequent
beating,” says Vincent Sanzone, Green’s lawyer. Toopers say Green initiated the fighting and broke an
officers’ nose. Green, 32, was hospitalized for cuts to his
head and body. [more]
