JERSEY CITY — Two police officers were slammed to the ground in the middle of oncoming traffic on a busy Jersey City street by a man “possibly under the influence of PCP” Friday night, according to a police report.
The officers were driving northbound on Garfield Avenue near Bayside Park at 7:15 p.m. when they saw a woman being chased by a man near a car that was parked in the street blocking traffic, a police report said..
Louvenia Black, 35, told police she didn’t know the man chasing her — later identified as Anthony Howard — and that he had her phone.
When confronted by the officers, Howard — a 39-year old resident of Academy Street — was fixated on Black in an intimidating manner, and did not even acknowledge the officer’s presence, the report said.
Howard, disobeying police orders to place his hands on the hood of the car, fought against the officers by “slamming both officers to the ground repeatedly” while attempting to choke them, the report said.
Neither of the officers were seriously injured. One of officers sustained an injury to his left knee and was taken to the Jersey City Medical Center for treatment.
Additional units arrived and Howard was then arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated assault on a police officer and resisting arrest, according to the report.
When questioned by officers later, Black admitted she was friends with the Howard and that they had been “smoking together (and) he started ‘wilding’ when I was driving,” the report said.
Officers noticed her speech was slurred and they found an open container of alcohol in the car. Black was charged with DWI, open container, suspended license, and obstructing traffic, police said.
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