In her suit, Tiffany Gilmore claimed that on September 29, 2010 she was driving home from the grocery store with her two children when Lawnside Police Officer Carmen Colon jumped in front of her car and screamed for her to pull over. She said that since she was in a \”known drug area\” and didn\’t recognize Colon as a police officer and ordered her daughter to call 911 while she drove to the Lawnside police station. Colon had followed her to the police station and, according to the complaint, grabbed Gilmore after she exited her car and \”slammed her five times into her vehicle and then handcuffed her.\” When Gilmore complained about how tightly the Colon had applied the handcuffs, Colon allegedly grabbed the cuffs and pulled on them to direct Gilmore into the police station.

Colon issued Gilmore six traffic tickets and charged her with a disorderly persons offense and resisting arrest. Gilmore claimed that all the charges were dismissed or terminated in her favor.

In her complaint, Gilmore noted that Colon had been fired from the Camden Police Department but that Lawnside hired her anyway. Attached to the complaint was a May 22, 2007 letter from Camden Police Lieutenant John A. Sosinavage to the Camden County Prosecutor\’s Office in which he wanted to make clear