"I absolutely had a very clear view of the boy and the trooper," Pagonis said. Once on the ground, Wambold said Bayliss struck him in a glancing blow to the lower lip. Pagonis said Bayliss raised his hands to cover his face to protect himself.

Wambold also said in his report he was the only one to strike Bayliss on the ground.

After the struggle, troopers handcuffed Bayliss, and Wambold and Juckett dragged him by his arms to a nearby patrol car, according to the video and the report. Pagonis said that as the troopers dragged Bayliss to the car, they walked him head-first into the front tire.

"They did not go in the direction of the back seat," she said. "They went in the direction of the front wheel tire and they slammed his head into the front wheel tire."

Pagonis added: "At that point I was so scared and so disgusted that my husband said, ‘What’s happening?’ I said, ‘They were beating the snot out of the passenger.’ "

Wambold said Bayliss resisted being put into the patrol car, so he forced him inside. Pagonis said the troopers did not give Bayliss a chance to sit down, but threw him head-first into the patrol car and, once inside, one of the troopers hit him some more.

"The reason I remember this event is my husband said, ‘What is happening now?’ " Pagonis said. "And I said, ‘They threw him in the back seat and they are still beating him up.’ "

Pagonis said she was scared after witnessing what happened and did not contact the State Police. She also said she had never been contacted by anyone from the state.

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"I called my son that morning and said, ‘I don’t know what to do. I saw police beat up a child in front of my house,’ " Pagonis said in the deposition.

STILL ASKING WHY

Snyder said Bayliss had cuts and bruises on his face, but refused care at the State Police’s Washington barracks so someone could take pictures of his injuries. Since then, Snyder said, he and Bayliss have often spoken about that night.

He said of Bayliss: "He’s always asking, ‘Why did they do this, how could they do this, it’s not right, I didn’t do anything wrong.’ "

John Bayliss told The Star-Ledger and said in court documents that since the beating, his son suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and emotional trauma. He said his son has been seeing a therapist for more than a year and no longer drives because he is afraid of the police.

"At first we didn’t realize it was that much of a problem, but then he came forward and asked to talk to someone about it," John Bayliss said.

He said he was told a month after his son’s arrest, in June 2009, the State Police were investigating. In an affidavit signed last year, John Bayliss said he had spoken to six different troopers on at least 19 occasions about the investigation. At one point he was told it was taking so long "due to the serious nature of the case," the affidavit said.

In April, state Comptroller Matthew Boxer said in a report the majority of State Police internal investigations he reviewed exceeded the 120-day requirement for completion, though the division had good reasons for the delays.

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"Timely resolution of complaints enables prompt intervention designed to avoid the recurrence of any misconduct," Boxer’s report said. "Equally important, troopers who are the subject of misconduct investigations have an interest in the timely resolution of complaints against them."

PATIENCE RUNS OUT

John Bayliss said the first time he saw the video, he was outraged. But he believed the State Police would look into it and see justice done. He said his patience ran out about a year ago, when he was told the investigation would be done but nothing happened.

Though he said he was happy Friday when he was told by The Star-Ledger that Wambold and Juckett would be disciplined, he could not understand why the State Police did not tell him directly when they reached a conclusion in March.

"I respected (troopers) before," said John Bayliss, who in 1982 won a State Police road race held in honor of a murdered trooper. "I thought they were the elite of the elite over town cops. Now my concept has totally changed because it seems all they do is try to protect their own."

But, he added, at least he is getting somewhere now.