Jeffrey Profitt, the former police officer who admitted last month to roughing up an intoxicated man in 2016, will serve two years probation, a judge ruled Friday.

Profitt served as a Millville police officer when a 62-year-old man, identified by his initials, A.W., was brought into the police station after causing a disturbance at a liquor store. In the station, Profitt tackled the man, whose head hit the floor “like a pumpkin smashing,” an EMT testified.

The man needed three hours of surgery, First Assistant Prosecutor Harold Shapiro said.

Profitt pleaded guilty to third-degree aggravated assault last month, in exchange for the dropping of 23 remaining indictment counts.

At Profitt’s sentencing before Judge Robert Malestein in Superior Court in Bridgeton Friday, Shapiro argued for a 364-day county jail term. Defense attorney Michael Testa Sr. argued against incarceration.

Shapiro said A.W.'s daughter was in the courtroom and did not plan on making a statement. After Testa made a remark about A.W. not being present to give a statement, she stood up, and Malestein allowed her to address the court.

“He didn’t speak because he has a brain injury,” she said. Her father has lost his hearing and will be in a nursing home for the rest of his life, she added.

When given the chance to speak on his behalf, Profitt offered no apology for the incident as he criticized the prosecution and disparaged the victim.

Speaking rapidly as he flipped through the pages of his prepared statement, Profitt said A.W. was involved in a fight with a woman, who hit A.W. with a stick, before police arrived at the scene. He said the prosecutor’s office was “concerned about the well-being of an alcohol-addicted, crack-smoking woman-beater and not the wellbeing of me and my family.”

Profitt also accused the prosecutor’s office detective who investigated the beating of lying during grand jury proceedings.

He said he used force because A.W. was resisting arrest and he was trying to get him under control.

The former Millville officer runs 856 Films, a small studio that produces movies for Youtube, Vimeo and other platforms.

In Violent Justice, a film in which Profitt acted and served as executive producer, he played a vigilante ex-cop who lives up to the title. According to Profitt’s IMDB profile, he has also directed series including I Think My Boyfriend is From Hell and My Baby Mama is a Psycho, and has other projects releasing in 2020.

In his court statement Friday, Profitt alleged county Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae “has some sort of groupie-like obsession with me” and watches his films too.

She declined to comment on that Friday.

As his case was moving through the courts, he said people he used to interact with as a police officer, who were aware of the case against him, would see him in public and say “they’re trying to do you dirty, bro.”

Malestein called the sentencing “contentious litigation that is coming to a close."

“The elephant is really in the room in this case. Not a day goes by where you don’t see a video about police,” he said, referring to news reports.

He also noted that he can’t treat Profitt, as a former police officer, any differently than a civilian charged with the same crime.

For a first offense, there is a presumption not to send Profitt to jail.

Profitt, who has since moved to Pennsylvania, will have to get his probation transferred there, Malestein said.

The former cop will serve 364 days in the county jail if he violates probation. He must forfeit future public employment.

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