A New Jersey police officer won a $2.1 million judgment last week after claiming he was branded as a “rat” and passed over for promotions because he helped expose police brutality.

Teaneck Police Department officer Glenn Coley filed a whistleblower lawsuit in 2022 alleging his career was derailed after he broke rank and gave sworn testimony supporting a township resident’s account that officers used excessive force.

Coley, 59, testified during a 2018 deposition that fellow officers violently threw Andrea Tompkins against a car, handcuffed her and cut off her purse with a knife during a 2014 arrest. Coley contradicted other officers’ claims that Tompkins had been combative after she called 911 to report a fire at her home.

A Bergen County jury ruled Aug. 7 that the township and several p

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