N.J. councilman scolded cops, said ‘You know who I am?’ during a traffic stop. Now he’s resigned.

A Gloucester County borough councilman who was seen on video berating a police officer during a traffic stop in January says he has resigned from his elected office.

But the councilman said his resignation is not related to the controversy over the traffic stop.

A local officer stopped Paulsboro Councilman Theodore D. Holloway II for running a stop sign in the borough on Jan. 4, according to body camera video of the encounter.

The video showed Holloway yelling at the officer, swearing and calling the police chief on his cellphone to complain about being pulled over.

“I’m the one that hired you,” a fuming Holloway told the officer after asking why he was stopped. “You actually pulled over an elected official.”

The councilman denied running the stop sign and reminded the officer he was elected to the borough council, according to the video.

“You’re not pulling over a random,” Holloway said. “You’re pulling over your boss. I am literally your boss.”

Holloway told NJ Advance Media Tuesday he has resigned because he recently moved out of Paulsboro and, as a result, could no longer serve on the governing body.

He declined to comment on the traffic stop, but said his resignation was not related to the January incident.

Paulsboro Mayor John Giovannitti said in April that Holloway didn’t file to run in the June primary for a new term on council. The veteran councilman was elected last year to fill an unexpired term, which ends in December. He first served on council starting in 2014, according to his LinkedIn page.

Holloway’s resignation was effective this month.

Holloway said he enjoyed his time on the borough council.

“I love serving my borough. I was born and raised in Paulsboro. Love doing right by my people and always doing as best as I could,” he said. “Paulsboro is a progressive town that’s moving forward.”

In the video of the traffic stop, Holloway told the officer that, as councilman, he was responsible for the cop having a job.

“You know me. You act like I’m running around here mother——— gun toting, weed-smoking. I’m the one that hired you,” Holloway shouted. “You’re wasting your time, you’re wasting the taxpayer money that I pay you guys to do, for what?”

The officer’s supervisor soon arrived at the scene and Holloway asked him, “You know who I am, right?”

During the stop, Holloway said he would call the borough police chief about the incident, then called him on his cellphone from his minivan as the traffic stop continued.

Holloway was issued a citation for driving an unregistered vehicle but was not cited for the alleged stop sign violation.

In January, New Jersey PBA President Peter Andreyev called on Holloway to resign over the video, saying the councilman’s behavior should raise concerns.

“If he can so casually threaten an officer for simply doing his job, then it is a fair question to wonder where else he is flaunting his power and position,” Andreyev said.

Officials with the state Attorney General’s Office of Public Integrity and Accountability came to Paulsboro a few weeks after the confrontation and interviewed members of the borough police department about the incident, Giovannitti previously said.

Holloway said he was not interviewed by the Attorney General’s office.

A spokesman for the Attorney General’s office said in April the agency would neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation into the matter.

The mayor said this week that he’s heard nothing about a possible investigation since then.

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Matt Gray may be reached at mgray@njadvancemedia.com.