Jeffrey Sutton lifts his ravaged left arm and studies the scars etched into his brown skin — silent reminders of the damage wrought by a half-dozen hollow-point bullets fired by Bloomfield police.
Sutton’s no angel. He’ll be the first to tell you about his roguish life, inglorious mistakes, and lengthy arrest record. But what happened to him during a traffic-stop-gone-terribly-wrong one November day in 2020 still haunts him, even as he sits in his Newark attorney’s conference room five years later.
“When I got out the car, I had a bullet hanging out here, here, and here,” Sutton, a 42-year-old father of five from West Orange, told The Jersey Vindicator as he pointed to the now-healed wounds. “The bullets here and here — I took out the shell myself before I made it to the hospital.”…