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The Rev. James Manship will be in Superior Court this morning to answer charges that he engaged in disorderly conduct and interfered with police in East Haven, but defenders say he was arrested for videotaping a pattern of anti-Latino harassment.
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The Rev. James Manship entered a not guilty plea to misdemeanor charges in Superior Court Wednesday, and claimed his arrest is the “tip of the toxic iceberg of racial profiling in East Haven and the abuse of power by police.”
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After releasing a videotape Thursday that appears to contradict a police report on the arrest of a priest, parishioners of St. Rose of Lima Church in New Haven said Thursday they want a formal meeting with the East Haven mayor to address their racial profiling claims.
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State prosecutors dismissed all charges against the Rev. James Manship Thursday, and parishioners of St. Rose of Lima Church filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice, requesting an investigation of the East Haven Police Department.
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A peaceful march protesting alleged racial profiling Saturday by the East Haven Police was marred when one of the female protesters and a New Haven woman suddenly tangled in the middle of Main Street.
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The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice has determined that complaints of racial profiling and race-based violence made against the East Haven Police Department merit a formal investigation.
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Mayor April Capone Almon placed Chief of Police Leonard Gallo on paid administrative leave this morning.
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An analysis of traffic ticketing and towing in East Haven shows disproportionate enforcement against drivers with Hispanic surnames.
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Leaders of St. Rose of Lima Church, which has spearheaded the push for a probe into alleged profiling of minorities by East Haven police, welcomed the Board of Police Commissioners’ call this week for a state investigation into the February 2009 arrest of the Rev. James Manship, St. Rose pastor.
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Officer Dave Cari wants the police board to release documents he says vindicate him.
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It was an effort to drive one ethnic group — Latinos — out of town through discrimination, intimidation, violence and mistreatment, plaintiffs and their lawyers alleged Tuesday.
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How big is East Haven’s latest black eye in the police scandal involving alleged profiling and abuse of Hispanic residents?
Big enough to reach Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Miami, Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, Seattle, Alaska, Hawaii, Taiwan and Great Britain, to name but a few places.
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East Haven went out of its way to comply with Freedom of Information Act document requests by the U.S. Department of Justice and Yale Law School students representing Apostle Immigration Services and New Haven’s St. Rose of Lima Church, Chief of Police Leonard Gallo testified Tuesday in his long-awaited appearance before the state FOI Commission.
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A federal grand jury investigating allegations of profiling and mistreatment of Latino citizens by East Haven police began meeting Tuesday in Bridgeport, but local officials already have been told that officers won’t be called until a second set of meetings that begin March 15, sources said.
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Almost a year after bringing in a consultant to make recommendations on improving the Police Department, Mayor April Capone Friday released the Police Executive Research Forum’s report.
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A federal court jury exonerated two East Haven police officers Thursday in a civil rights case filed on behalf of a man who was arrested for allegedly taking money from a Main Street liquor store cash register in 2006, only to have a state prosecutor drop the charges, saying he could not be sure the arrested man was the person identified by police and seen in store surveillance video.
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It took less than four minutes Tuesday night for the Board of Police Commissioners to vote unanimously to refer Chief of Police Leonard Gallo — on paid administrative leave for 14 months — to Mayor April Capone for “possible discipline, up to and including termination.”
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A state marshal served Chief of Police Leonard Gallo with a subpoena Wednesday for a June 23 hearing at which Mayor April Capone will consider discipline against Gallo that could include termination, Town Attorney Patricia Cofrancesco said Thursday.
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Mayor April Capone agreed Tuesday to step aside as hearing officer for an upcoming disciplinary hearing on Police Chief Leonard Gallo.
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Acting Chief of Police Gaetano “Guy” Nappi put controversial police Officer Dennis Spaulding on paid administrative leave and took his gun and badge this week, police and town officials said Thursday.
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None of the 70-plus people at Wednesday evening’s rally in front of Town Hall to support the East Haven Police Department argued that the department shouldn’t change — or address issues raised by a federal investigation into alleged profiling and mistreatment of Latino residents.
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The New Haven pastor whose 2009 arrest spurred the federal government to investigate town police called it a good thing for residents to support the department, but said police need to protect “the whole community.”
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Unhappy with the performance of their superiors, police officers will be conducting a vote of no confidence against acting Police Chief Gaetano Nappi, Mayor April Capone and the Board of Police Commissioners.
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The federal grand jury investigating allegations of profiling and mistreatment of Latino citizens by East Haven police served additional subpoenas to East Haven officers last week, multiple sources said.
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The police union voted “no confidence” in acting Police Chief Gaetano Nappi, Mayor April Capone and the Board of Police Commissioners, union officials announced Friday outside the Police Department.
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Three FBI agents — including one computer technician — paid a visit to the Police Department Tuesday and requested access to on-leave Chief Leonard Gallo’s locked office, three town officials said today.
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As a large crowd yelled admonishments such as “Shame on you,” the Board of Police Commissioners met Thursday night and accepted for its consideration two disciplinary matters involving police union President Sgt. John Miller.
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Police Chief Leonard Gallo was back on the job Tuesday, despite the presence of a continuing federal probe that prompted officials to put him on paid administrative leave in the first place 19 months ago.
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The Board of Police Commissioners, responding to Chief of Police Leonard Gallo’s order last week barring commissioners from setting foot inside the police station, hired a familiar face Monday night to represent them in the brewing battle to regain access.
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Mayor Joe Maturo Jr. and Town Attorney Joseph Zullo met with U.S. Department of Justice officials Monday to discuss the ongoing federal civil rights probe into allegations of profiling, use of excessive force and mistreatment of Latinos by some East Haven police.
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Advocates from Danbury and East Haven testified before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights State Advisory Committee Tuesday on instances of alleged police profiling that have led to lawsuits in both towns, as well as a grand jury investigation and a U.S. Department of Justice inquiry in East Haven.
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The Board of Police Commissioners Wednesday unanimously approved a policy that overrides Chief Leonard Gallo’s order that commissioners only visit the department if invited, even though Gallo rescinded his directive earlier in the day.
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Depositions in the federal civil rights lawsuit that Yale law students filed on behalf of Latino residents and business owners against East Haven police officers are on hold until February, according to court records.
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The East Haven Police Department “engages in a pattern or practice of systematically discriminating against Latinos in violation of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution,” U.S. Department of Justice officials said Monday.
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The leader of the Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission is calling for a stricter racial profiling prevention law in response to the federal government’s confirmation of mistreatment of Latinos by town police officers.
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Two or three of the 12 East Haven police officers accused of mistreating Latinos in a pending federal civil rights lawsuit may be dropped from the case because their accuser allegedly fabricated his story, according to court documents.
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The attorney for East Haven, its Police Department and three officers accused in the federal civil rights lawsuit that alleges that some police officers mistreated Latinos wants sanctions against a plaintiff who wants to drop his claims.
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A new volunteer committee has been charged with helping the Police Department implement changes in policies, training, community relations and other law enforcement operations, Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr. announced Tuesday.
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Latino legislators called on Gov. Dannel P. Malloy Wednesday to support more aggressive enforcement of Connecticut’s anti-profiling law in the wake of the federal findings of “serious civil rights violations” resulting from racial profiling of Latino motorists by East Haven police.
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A third East Haven police officer would be dropped from the pending federal civil rights lawsuit accusing 12 East Haven police officers of mistreating Latinos, and claims relating to a defendant who now wants to withdraw from the case would be dropped against a fourth officer, according to a recently-filed court document.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested four East Haven police officers early this morning, alleging a conspiracy to deprive some residents, including Latinos, of their Constitutional rights
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Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr. was caught on camera Tuesday in what he called a “gotcha moment” when a New York TV reporter asked him what he was doing for Latinos Tuesday night.
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Controversy surrounding Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr.’s “taco” comment Tuesday continues to grow, with Maturo making a formal apology and some now calling for his resignation.
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An extra, extra large order of tacos arrived at Town Hall Thursday afternoon, but their intended recipient, Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr. wasn’t there to accept them.
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A police officer who remained in custody this week after being arrested with three co-workers for allegedly mistreating Latinos was scheduled to return home after a Thursday court hearing.
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Down four more officers as of Tuesday’s arrests, the Police Department is continuing to cover its shifts, but individual officers — who have complained for months that morale has never been lower — are worn out, sources say.
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All eyes are now on East Haven and its next moves, following the arrests of four police officers for alleged racial profiling, as well as Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr.’s “taco” comment that seemed to put the town in the spotlight even more than the arrests.
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An online petition calling for Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr. to immediately replace Police Chief Leonard Gallo and “send a message that racial profiling won’t be tolerated” had almost 15,000 signatures as of Sunday evening.
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