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A New Jersey grandmother is out of the hospital after family say a Clark-Township police officer body-slammed her “face-first” to the pavement during a traffic stop last Friday.

61-year-old Antoniette Dilorio suffered multiple fractures to her face, had her front teeth knocked out, and had to be put into a medically induced coma after an officer stopped her son, Fortunato Riga, for running a stop sign on July 31.

Police say the woman was trying to defend her son after he refused to provide the officer with his ID and the officer attempted to remove him from the car.

Clark-Township Mayor Sal Bonaccorso said Dilorio jumped on officer Joseph Teston’s back as he was pulling Riga from the car and the two fell to the ground – but family members are telling a different story.

“All of a sudden he grabbed my mother-in-law by the arm, lifted her off her feet in mid-air and slammed her on the ground,” Riga’s fiancee Crystal Palmieri said. “All you saw was blood pouring out of her face. Now my son is scared of cops and they’re supposed to serve and protect us. And all they did was terrify us.”

Riga was charged with obstruction and Dilorio was charged with obstruction and resisting arrest before she was taken to University Hospital and listed in critical condition. – She has since been released.

“There was no reason I should have been pulled over. My mom is 61 years old, if she weighs 105 pounds it’s a lot,” Riga said. “They tried saying my mom jumped on the cop’s back. My mom grabbed the cop and said ‘why are you going after my son like this?’ He was like, shut up boom and just slammed her, she went face first.”

Mayor Bonaccorso says he stands by the actions of officer Teston and that he believes the US Marine veteran “acted professionally.”.

“He’s one of our excellent officers in the department, and we have never, ever heard anything but kind words about him,” Bonaccorso said. “The kind of community we live in, it’s a non-combative community. In my opinion, our police officers don’t pull up like the subject is the enemy nor do the people we serve think of the police as the enemy.”

The Union County Prosecutor’s Office is currently investigating the incident.