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Bodycam footage from the Camden County Prosecutors Office shows two officers talking to the teens on a porch about week ago on the 200 block of Parker Avenue. About two minutes in, Woodlynne Officer Ryan Dubiel can be seen pepper-spraying a young man in the face — and he keeps spraying as one of the young men tries to run away.
"This is George Floyd stuff. This is ridiculous," Maria Viggiano said. She is the mother of 16-year-old Jimmy, one of the boys. "Cops now are thinking they can just do anything to anybody."
She says they were sitting on their own porch.
"The kids wasn’t doing anything. The kids was just minding their own business," she said.
A statement from the prosecutor's office read: "Under the current Use of Force protocols, a police officer is permitted to use force when a subject refuses to comply with an officer’s commands at the time of arrest, or when the subject threatens the officer’s safety. ... After careful review, it was clear Dubiel’s actions are not consistent with the State of New Jersey use-of-force policy.”
Officer Dubiel, 31, has been charged with two counts of simple assault and suspended without pay. He has been with the Woodlynne Police Department for 10 months. This is his ninth department.
Cops went to the property in response to a man calling 911, claiming the teens were loitering and smoking marijuana.
The Woodlynne Police Department did not respond to requests for comment.