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: Arrested Jersey City Mayor: Cops Went Overboard
: Healy Hit With 2 Counts Of Disorderly Conduct

: (AP) TRENTON Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy said he was arrested and roughed up by police over the weekend for intervening in an argument between a couple outside a Bradley Beach bar. 

: Healy said he had just left Barry's Tavern -- owned by his sister, Kathleen Barry -- around 2 a.m. on Sat urday when he saw a couple arguing in the parking lot of a nearby auto shop. He said the man was jumping on the hood of his girlfriend's car. 

: After calmly talking the man down, Barry said, police arrived and began roughing up him and his wife. 

: "My lawyer has asked me not to speak, but I did absolutely nothing wrong," Healy told The Associated Press on Sunday. 

: He said police threw him on the ground and Maced him. When his wife tried to retrieve his glasses, police shoved her to the ground too, according to Healy 

: "I quelled a situation that the police were responding to. I told the young man to calm down. The kids stopped yelling and started talking," he said. "Then the police cars pulled up and the officers went overboard. I'm absolutely innocent." 

: Barry said her brother was "taking care of the situation" and was being a "good Samaritan." 

: "The one policeman has some sort of ego problem or something," Barry said. "Mrs. Healy has bruises all over her leg and her finger is broken." 

: Bradley Beach police did not return calls from The Associated Press on Sunday. 

: A witness, 32-year-old Hubert Cutolo, a lawyer from Colts Neck, agreed with Healy's account. 

: "We saw the whole thing. They were like older people and the officer threw him on the ground and cuffed him," said Cutolo, who was leaving the bar with two friends when they saw the incident. 

: "It was really uncalled for. They knocked his wife to ground and then Maced them. We were like, 'did that really just happen?' Officers are not supposed to act like that." 

: A police spokesman told The Jersey Journal of Jersey City that Healy interfered in an investigation of the couple's argument and ignored warnings from officers that he would be arrested if he didn't leave. 

: Healy was soon handcuffed, taken to Bradley Beach Police headquarters and charged with two disorderly persons offenses and resisting arrest. 

: He faces up to six months and jail and $2,000 in fines if convicted. 

: (© 2006 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)


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