A Democratic candidate in a local New Jersey election was forced to drop out of the race after an incident surfaced in which he was arrested after dropping his pants and then yelling racial slurs into a local diner, according to NJ.com.
In 2007, police went to the Sherbans Diner to investigate a report that several men were acting disorderly -- one of the men had allegedly mooned a woman and her daughter, and used a sexist epithet to describe them. The officer arrived to find Sorrentino with his pants down, yelling the N-word through the diner window, according to the police report.
The police officer yelled at Sorrentino to stop, according to the police report. [...]
Sorrentino apologized to police repeatedly, the report said, but was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. He appeared intoxicated, police said. Sorrentino didn't respond to NJ Advance Media's requests for elaboration: It's unknown whether the disorderly conduct charge was dropped. He was in his early 20s at the time.
Details within the police report, which was released by Republican opponents of Sorrentino, reveal details of the incident, including that another man with Sorrentino mooned a woman and her daughter as he called them both "sluts."
In 2008, Sorrentino was involved in another incident when police were called back to the very same diner to deal with disorderly customers.
The officer found Sorrentino and his brother, Anthony, in a confrontation with two women. The women said the Sorrentinos were drunk and had called them an epithet for lesbians. The Sorrentinos also threatened to strike them, one of the women said.
According to the report, Joe and Anthony Sorrentino told police that they weren't using the epithet to refer to the two women in question. Instead, they allegedly told the officers, they were using it in reference to someone else. The two women misunderstood, and that's how the confrontation began, they said. Police didn't charge anyone in the incident.
Sorrentino says that he has "worked every single day to prove that I am not the man that the report says."