Camden-On Friday, the chief prosecutor of Frank Nucera's second hate crime trial told the jurors in the opening statement that the then Bodentown police chief was calling the Ramada Hotel , Banged the head of a black teenager against the metal door frame with this force. On September 1, 2016, it made a "big bang".

Assistant U.S. Attorney Molly Lorber said the victim, then 18-year-old Timothy Stroye, had fought with the police. But when the white police chief slammed the unarmed Stroyer, he was subdued and handcuffed.

"He can neither see the coming blow, nor can he withstand the blow," Robb said.

Then back to the police headquarters, when Stroye was in distress and was being treated in another part of the building, Nucera issued a racist growl to the dog guard Sgt. According to the audio played in the courtroom, Nathan Roohr said "The damn king should keep the fuck away from Bodentown."

"His words, ladies and gentlemen, are not my words," the white Robb made sure to tell the jury.

At the same time, the retrial of the former police chief is underway.

Nucera, 64, retired from Bordentown Township in early 2017 after learning that he was under federal investigation.

He was later charged with three counts of hate crime assault, deprivation of civil rights, and lying to the FBI about his encounter with Stroye.

As explosive videotapes showed Nucera repeatedly using the N word and comparing blacks with ISIS, the case has attracted international attention.

The retrial of the former senior policeman focused on two more serious charges in the indictment. If he is convicted, he may be sent to prison for decades.

Nucera's preliminary trial ended in the fall of 2019, and the jury reached a deadlock. After he repeatedly denied "contact" with the black Stroye from Trenton, the jury reached a deadlock and found that he only lied to the FBI. He died a few months after the retrial.

In May of this year, Nucera was sentenced to 28 months in prison for lying. He didn't have to start serving his sentence until the trial was over and a jury of eight men and four women—only one black—decided his fate this time.

In her opening remarks, Lob told the jurors that when considering the reasons for his alleged attack on Strowyer, they could not ignore the hatred and "offensive" words of the former chief.

She portrayed the 34-year-old domineering boss-now only wearing a tie, suit pants and cloth mask-as a majestic figure, who first ruled his department with an iron.

The first witness to be summoned to the stands, the current Boden Town Police Chief Brian Pesce (Brian Pesce), called Nucera a "micro-manager" who "is easy to get angry when he drops his hat."

He cited examples of Nucera's continuous retaliation, including one time when he ordered Pesce (the captain and head of the Interior Ministry) to check an anonymous letter sent to a local newspaper complaining about Nucera's management style.

Nucera hopes to know who wrote this letter through fingerprints.

Another time, after someone criticized him on a news site, Nucera tried to get Pesce to subpoena news organizations to obtain IP addresses for people who left negative comments, Pesce said.

Nucera once ordered a township employee who was born with an illness to be monitored around the clock so that he could catch her and leave the house for disciplinary action.

Pesce said Nucera also ordered his department not to support the Bodentown police because of a dispute over a shared service agreement with another city.

Nucera's bullying strategy is only part of the winning streak. In Roohr's secret recording, his racism towards minorities also freely flowed from his mouth. He is now a lieutenant of the Bordentown police.

Roohr reported to Pesce about the excessive use of force by the person in charge, and the two jointly prepared a complaint that they intended to send to the Burlington County Attorney.

Pesce said that previous complaints about Nucera's conduct have nowhere to go.

"You have reached the point of despair. You feel defeated," he said. "I threw all the cards on the table. I pushed all my chips in and did nothing."

Confided to Pace that he had been secretly recording Nucera's police dog keeper. This time he never expected that he went to the FBI.

Prosecutors will again rely on parts of 81 secret recordings that captured Nucera using "ugly words". Lorber said these words "broke out violence" for Stroye, Stroye, his girlfriend and her family Live in the township hotel.

Lorber said that after a group of young children taken care of by Stroye and his girlfriend while swimming in the pool became "rough", a manager saw Stroye in a room where no one was paying and called the police.

The prosecutor admitted that Stroye did not "do the right thing" and scuffled with responders. A police officer who described it as a "battle of life" was injured in the melee and Stroye was sprayed with pepper.

The prosecutor outlined that because Stroye was in handcuffs, “not a threat to anyone,” Nucera allegedly took matters into his own hands.

"The defendant will tell you what you need to know through his actions and words," Lobo said.

Nucera’s lawyer Rocco Cipparone Jr. rebutted the government’s description of his client as an out-of-control hot-headed man who overreacted when he saw a black teenager "passively resist" while being handcuffed down the stairs. In the hotel.

He claimed that Nucera was an "innocent person" and was reprimanded by the "motivated" police (including the less "noble" Roohr).

Cipparone said that they did not like him because he was an "authoritarian" figure who made them accountable and strictly managed. Nucera also serves as a township administrator and close guard to work overtime.

"He won't let them ride that gravy train," Cipparone said.

Under cross-examination, Pace disapproved and became aggressive towards the defender who tried to portray him as someone who had benefited from Nucera's departure.

He denied lobbying the then mayor Jill Popko (Jill Popko) to become captain, saying he was content to be captain.

"If Frank Nucera were a good boss, I would still be loyal to him today," Pesce said.

The defense asked the jurors to retain their judgment when they heard Nucera’s “difficult, ugly and embarrassing” tapes of racial defamation until all the evidence was before them and they were considering the case.

"Criminal justice is not the same as social justice," Ciparone said, remembering the single line he used in the first trial. "The government's case requires you to confuse these two things."

Cipparone pointed to a recording played by the government at the beginning of a conversation between Roohr and Nucera.

In the video, you can hear Nucera barking like a dog, and hope that the police dog manager will release his dog to Stroye and his girlfriend.

Lorber quoted Nucera as saying: "You will see two N words - and he didn't use sanitized words - stagnating in their tracks.

Ciparone argued that his client’s hate speech was equivalent to “just empty words without evidence of action”.

"Sir. Nucera may be all bark but not biting," Cipparone said.

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