A surveillance camera outside a bar in Passaic, New Jersey has captured the beating of a schizophrenic man by a police officer. On the tape, Ronnie Holloway, age 49, can be seen standing outside a bar when a police cruiser carrying Officer Joseph R. Rios III and his female police partner pulls up. The female officer asks Holloway to zip up his sweatshirt, and Holloway appears to comply. But Rios suddenly leaves the cruiser and begins beating Holloway with his fists and baton, even appearing to...
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