CHRO ex. rel. Donald Rajtar v. Town of Bloomfield - Connecticut ...

45. Later that day (February 12) Sergeant Driscoll called Roshana on thetelephone (she had not been at Lee’s during his visit). TR p. 819, C-2.46. Roshana told Sergeant Driscoll she had seen and heard some of theincident, but had not seen the gun. TR pp. 818-820, C-2.47. Sergeant Driscoll prepared a supplemental incident report (C-2) and left it inthe complainant’s box. TR pp. 35, 820.48. The complainant and Sergeant Driscoll spoke on the complainant’s return toduty, and Sergeant Driscoll was agitated and asked the complainant aboutthe other witnesses and other details missing from his report. TR p. 37.49. Sergeant Driscoll told the complainant that Roshana had told him she hadwitnessed some of the incident. TR pp. 36, 37.50. The complainant told Sergeant Driscoll that Roshana told him the opposite –that she had not seen anything. TR pp. 37, 822.51. The complainant’s focus had been on finding Joel because he believed hehad already established probable cause for an arrest. TR p. 221.52. The complainant had never been counseled to take a statement from awitness who said he had seen nothing, and had never been disciplined fornot doing so. TR p. 223.53. Although agitated, Sergeant Driscoll did not attempt to reconcile thediscrepancy with the complainant. TR p. 37.54. Sergeant Driscoll called Roshana again on February 16 and maintains thatshe told him that the complainant did not “interview or speak to her.” TR pp.823, 898.Page 8 of 56