Frank Nucera, a above NJ badge chief, is accused of a abhorrence crime. via NBC Philadelphia
Mayor Steve Benowitz added a account of his own, adage that the accuse "are bound to one being and are not indicative" of the badge force or belt "as a whole."
The body of the federal case focuses on the night of Sept. 1, 2016, back two Bordentown admiral were alleged to a auberge on a complaint that a teen-aged brace ─ a boy, 18, and a girl, 16, both atramentous ─ hadn't paid for their room. During questioning, the boy tussled with the officers, who pepper sprayed him and alleged for backup. Several added admiral arrived, including Nucera and the anonymous administrator who'd been secretly recording him, according to the complaint.
As admiral arrested the boy and led him from the auberge to a convoying car, he chock-full walking. Nucera again allegedly affective the suspect's arch and airtight it into a metal doorjamb. Back the boy complained, Nucera hit him in the arch with his arm, according to the complaint.
The whistleblowing administrator recorded what happened after at the badge station, as the boy asked to be taken to a hospital ─ a appeal he after abandoned ─ and later, back Nucera went an credible tirade. Speaking about the brace and the girl's aunt, who'd apparent up at the arena of the arrest, Nucera frequently acclimated ancestral slurs and profanity.
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He was arrested Wednesday on accuse of committing a abhorrence abomination and actionable the 18-year-old suspect's civilian rights by application boundless force. The accuse backpack a best of 10 years in prison.
Nucera was appear on apart $500,000 band and ordered to accord up all of his accoutrements and abstain acquaintance with any abeyant victims or assemblage in the case ─ except his son, who is an administrator on the force.
"The dignity of badge admiral is abiding in their affectionate charge to assure our communities and their agreement to account our built-in values," William Fitzpatrick, the acting U.S. Attorney in New Jersey, said in a statement. "As arch of the Bordentown Belt Badge Department, the actor abandoned the profession by accomplishing neither."
