BRIDGEPORT — Adrenaline pumping, Sgt. Paul Scillia raced from the East Side in his police cruiser.
On duty from 4 p.m. to midnight, Scillia was about an hour and a half from the end of his shift when he heard a 10-32 call signaling all available officers to respond. The sergeant sped to Colorado Avenue, lights on and sirens blaring, on Oct. 21, 2017.
He ended up being one of 46 cops there.
“It was a rough night,” Scillia recalled later in a 405-page Office of Internal Affairs report, released to Hearst Connecticut Media on March 6 after a Freedom of Information Act request in January.
Chief Armando Perez requested the investigation following two civilian complaints about police conduct that evening. The report told of excessive force and a lack of supervision by police, and of intoxicated and confrontational partygoers.
Seventeen officers and two civilian detention officers were cited in the report for violating Bridgeport Police Department policies. They were were referred to the city Police Commission for hearings on their conduct.
For some, accusations of Bridgeport police abuse didn’t come as a surprise. There had been other such instances in recent years.
In 2015,...
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