"Obama has decimated the friggin' constitution, so I don't give a damn," the Helmetta cop says on camera. "Because if he doesn't follow the Constitution we don't have to." 
 
 A still photo of the YouTube video showing Helmetta Special Police Officer Richard Recine talking about the U.S. Constitution. (Photo: YouTube) Story Highlights Special Police Officer Richard Recine is under investigation for remarks about Obama, Constitution. 
 
 Video recorded by residents campaigning for animal shelter reform. 
 
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 EDITOR'S NOTE: This article contains language that some readers may find offensive. 
 
 A borough police officer was caught on camera telling a resident that police don't have to follow the Constitution because President Barack Obama doesn't, either. 
 
 Special Police Officer Richard Recine now is the subject of an internal affairs investigation after the video was posted online and was seen by Police Director Robert Manney, who called the comments an "embarrassment." 
 
 In the video, taken Monday at the borough municipal building, resident Steve Wronko gets into a verbal confrontation with Recine, who was called to the building because Wronko was seen taking pictures inside. 
 
 After Wronko insists he has a constitutional right to record in a public place, Recine responds. 
 
 "Obama has decimated the friggin' constitution, so I don't give a damn," says Recine, a retired Franklin cop. "Because if he doesn't follow the Constitution we don't have to." 
 
 Wronko then turns to the person recording the camera to make sure that was recorded. Recine repeats himself. 
 
 "Our president has decimated the constitution, then we don't have to." 
 
 On Wednesday, Manney said Recine's words were "uncalled for and unprofessional." 
 
 Manney, who appears in the video but only after Recine had made his comments, said the investigation should be "completed very swiftly" because "the evidence is right there." 
 
 "I've already spoken to that officer in regards to that. In my opinion it's an embarrassment." 
 
 Recine works as a part-time special police officer earning an hourly wage while collecting a $79,000 annual pension for his retirement as a police officer from Franklin in 2006. Helmetta is a small town of less than 2,200 people known for its police speed trap along the main drag. 
 
 Wronko's wife said Wednesday that she and her husband were at the municipal building to file public record requests. The couple have been campaigning for reform at the borough animal shelter, which they said gave them an underage and sick puppy that caused them thousands of dollars in veterinarian bills. 
 
 "We wanted them to pay for the medical bills. Now it's way past the money," Collene Freda-Wronko said. "Now it's about getting animals out of that shelter and getting people into that shelter who could run that facility better." 
 
 She said police have ordered her husband to stop videorecording at the animal shelter during two previous incidents. 
 
 Manney said police have the right to ask citizens to identify themselves in a municipal building. 
 
 "He was in our building and he got some of our employees upset," he said about Wronko. "They were worried because they've seen him before lurking around. In my opinion he was looking for an issue." 
 
 Staff Writer Sergio Bichao: 908-243-6615; sbichao@mycentraljersey.com 
 
 Read or Share this story: http://mycj.co/1scydwb ||||| Cleveland, Ohio (CNN) The head of Cleveland's largest police union is calling on Ohio Gov. John Kasich to temporarily tighten the state's gun laws during this week's Republican National Convention following Sunday's shooting in Louisiana that killed three officers and wounded at least three others. 
 
 "We are sending a letter to Gov. Kasich requesting assistance from him. He could very easily do some kind of executive order or something -- I don't care if it's constitutional or not at this point," Stephen Loomis, president of Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association, told CNN. "They can fight about it after the RNC or they can lift it after the RNC, but I want him to absolutely outlaw open-carry in Cuyahoga County until this RNC is over." 
 
 So-called "open carry" gun laws in Ohio allow for licensed firearm owners to wear their weapons in public. With the exception of a small "secure zone" inside and around the Quicken Loans Arena, residents, delegates and protesters are legally permitted to walk around the city -- including within its 1.7 square mile regulated "event zone" -- with any firearm not explicitly banned by the state. 
 
 Kasich, responding to the request, said: "Ohio governors do not have the power to arbitrarily suspend federal and state constitutional rights or state laws as suggested." 
 
 "The bonds between our communities and police must be reset and rebuilt -- as we're doing in Ohio -- so our communities and officers can both be safe. Everyone has an important role to play in that renewal," he said. 
 
 Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, who will attend and speak at the RNC, backed Kasich during an appearance Monday on CNN's "New Day." 
 
 "The governor just can't automatically just do away with open carry," she said. "There's a constitution, there's statutes, there's laws and he has to obey those. ... I take the police union's concerns very seriously. But the governor doesn't have, according to him, the executive power to do that." 
 
 Loomis also said officers here would begin ramping up inspections and oversight over anyone who is holstering a weapon entering the downtown area, where the Republican convention is scheduled to begin on Monday. 
 
 "We are going to be looking very, very hard at anyone who has an open carry," he said. "An AR-15, a shotgun, multiple handguns. It's irresponsible of those folks -- especially right now -- to be coming downtown with open carry AR's or anything else. I couldn't care less if it's legal or not. We are constitutional law enforcement, we love the Constitution, support it and defend it, but you can't go into a crowded theater and scream fire. And that's exactly what they're doing by bringing those guns down there." 
 
 The first key test for law enforcement comes Monday, as the convention opens, when Citizens for Trump and Black on Black Crime, Inc., which has marched in the past with Black Lives Matter-affiliated protestors, are among the many groups that are set to protest. 
 
 Citizens for Trump is scheduled to hold a rally expected to attract more than a thousand people to Settler's Landing Park, less than a mile from where Republican delegates will be gathering at the Quicken Loans Arena. 
 
 "We've hired special forces teams for security," the group's executive director, Tim Selaty, told CNN last week, declining to specify who would provide that extra security. "The Secret Service is well aware of what we're doing and they're going to be provided with everything they need to work in tandem with the local local law enforcement." 
 
 Alfred Porter Jr., president of Black on Black Crime, Inc., a four-decade-old anti-violence group, told CNN it would not alter a planned demonstration Monday in Cleveland's downtown Public Square. 
 
 "Nothing has changed because I still feel the same way, our message will still be the same," Porter said on Sunday afternoon. "We refuse to let anybody who has a simplistic or violent or hateful message stop the type of message that we have been sending out for accountability. Our message is not to go out there and start murdering police officers." 
 
 Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson, who is not in Cleveland, told CNN, "The movement began as a response to violence and a call to end violence. And that call remains as true today as they did yesterday and it will tomorrow." 
 
 The Cleveland Police Department did not immediately respond to request for comment. 
 
 Convention CEO Jeff Larson said that organizers remained confident in the security measures currently in place and did not expect Kasich to take any new action. 
 
 "The open carry laws in Ohio haven't changed recently, it's been in effect for quite some time, they've had a number of big events that have taken place with open carry without any issues," he told reporters Sunday afternoon. "They've been planning their security around that issue." 
 
 The union has also reached out to Police Chief Calvin Williams, asking that officers -- some of whom have been positioned alone and without vehicles -- be grouped together on their patrols, especially outside of the downtown security zones. 
 
 "We're going to be doing things differently (after today's attack)," Loomis said. "Right now, the chief of police thinks it's a good idea to have one officer without a car standing at a post in various intersections all around the city? Thirty blocks from downtown? I had a guy last night standing out there by himself without the benefit of protection of a police car. Or partner. That is absolute insanity to me. There is no reason for that. We are going to demand that the police chief -- at a minimum -- make sure that we have three officers working together, watching each other's backs."
– A New Jersey police officer has resigned after saying that he can ignore a citizen's Constitutional rights—because President Obama has already "decimated the friggin' Constitution." Special Police Officer Richard Recine made the heated remark Monday in a confrontation with a resident of Helmetta, NJ, who had been seen taking photos inside a municipal building, My Central Jersey reports. The resident, Steve Wronko, told Recine he had a constitutional right to snap the shots. "Obama has decimated the friggin' constitution, so I don't give a damn," said Recine. "Because if he doesn't follow the Constitution we don't have to." What's more, Recine's comments were all captured on video (WARNING: foul language). An internal affairs investigation quickly followed, and Police Director Robert Manney called Recine's words an "embarrassment." Manney said the probe should wrap up "very swiftly" since "the evidence is right there." Recine, a 59-year-old part-time officer, told My Central Jersey why he resigned: "I don't want to give a black eye to law enforcement," he said. "I don't want all officers painted with the same brush." Wronko's wife said the whole thing started because she and her husband were trying to reform the borough animal shelter, which had given them a sick puppy that ended up costing thousands of extra dollars in veterinary services.