CARTERET - A police dashcam video shows a dark-colored, four-door vehicle crashed into a utility pole guide wire, and the driver, a teen, getting out and stumbling toward the ground where he appears to be repeatedly punched by a borough police officer.

The video was released by the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office in response to an Open Public Record Act request for any police dash videos related to the encounter between Carteret Police Officer Joseph Reiman and a teen following a May 31, 2017 traffic chase and accident in the area of Edwin and Bergen streets.

Reiman, 31, the brother of Carteret Mayor Dan Reiman, was charged in June with aggravated assault and three counts of official misconduct in connection with the incident in which the teen, a 16-year-old boy, suffered significant bodily injury.

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The 17-minute dashcam video begins with Reiman in his police vehicle traveling through the streets of Carteret.

"I got a car taking off on me," he is heard saying before the vehicle's lights are activated and the vehicle is seen driving fast down the street.

"Left on Bergen, crashed out, crashed out," the officer is heard saying.

In the video as Reiman approaches the crashed vehicle, the teen, with his face blurred, is seen getting out of the vehicle and moving toward the ground. An officer, identified on the video as Reiman, is seen punching the boy four consecutive times, and then punching the teen again. From viewing the video, it is unclear why the officer hit the teen.

As Reiman is on top of the teen, the boy is punched several more times.

Someone is heard yelling "get on the ground" at a time when the teen is already on the ground.

Someone is heard saying "don't move." Although the video shows the teen's arms and legs in parts of the video the teen is never seen trying to stand back up from his position on the ground.

The teen, who was read a Miranda warning, is later seen in the back of patrol vehicle with his face blurred. Other Carteret police officer are seen checking over the vehicle which has two deployed airbags. An officer is heard asking if the vehicle is stolen.

"The release of these videos, which notably the prosecutor was resisting, demonstrates that the story initially told by the criminal perpetrator was a fraud. No hands were up, period. These videos show only a use of force necessary to suppress the unlawful resistance pursuant to the training given at the academy," said Charles J. Sciarra, attorney representing Joseph Reiman.

"Further, the significant accident after the life-threatening operation of that stolen car explains all of the injuries. Enough is enough of this criminal element endangering the public, resisting arrest, and then lying about police misconduct. My client will be exonerated," Sciarra said.

In a Facebook post shortly after the incident, Mayor Dan Reiman had urged the prosecutor's office to release any and all police reports, statements and audio/video recordings including any or all onboard cameras in connection with the collision.

"I believe the timely release of information is important to ensure the continued public trust of law enforcement in New Jersey," the mayor said in the Facebook post.

Officer Joseph Reiman's is facing three official misconduct charges related to allegedly assaulting the teenager, failing to activate his body-worn camera and failing to use reasonable discretion or restraint with the force used to apprehend the 16-year-old. He has been placed on administrative leave from the police department.

The teen suffered a swollen face in connection with the alleged assault. Facebook photos showed the boy with a swollen left eye and a bloodied face with cuts and scrapes. The boy, whose name has not been released, said he was beaten by police and kicked in the jaw and face, according to his attorney Hassan Ibn Abdellah.

A email message sent to Abdellah Monday was not returned by deadline.

Abdellah has said the teen was treated at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick and released. He also said his client's injuries were not caused by the airbags deployment.

A Father's Day Facebook post by someone who claims to be the teen's father featured a photo of a lion with a scar on the front of his face and the words

"My scars tell a story. They are reminders of when life tried to break me, and failed."

Staff Writer Suzanne Russell: 732-565-7335; srussell@mycentraljersey.com