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time looking for Clues better yet evidence well here is an opportunity for thousands of us little detectives to
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daydream together close your eyes you are the detective you receive a call to respond to a
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residence when you arrive you're somewhat greeted by a man he is panicking he takes you to a woman who is
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unresponsive she is lying on her back with blood on her face there are no visible injuries to the
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woman so you're not sure why she's unresponsive the man says that the woman lives there
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are you her husband do you live here too you ask no he says what's her name you ask
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he provides a first name he says he tried giving her chest compressions but it didn't work
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sadly the woman is dead upon your arrival once she is removed from the scene the
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corner will do their thing but this is a mysterious death a call you responded to and as it goes
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in most jurisdictions that means you just caught a case This Woman's mysterious death is now
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your investigation you're in charge and while you wait for lab tests to be run the coroner to provide additional
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information and the cause and manner of her death you are left at the scene and there is work to be done
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we have a scene to secure and search for Clues leads and evidence evidence collection and inventory
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photographing the scene processing it according to police procedure we have a witness to interview plus
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other possible witnesses to seek out who else was here what is our timeline of events
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do you see anything that would indicate that a crime was committed or possible multiple crimes having been committed
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you need to speak with her family and ask them the appropriate questions as well
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and as for your quote Witness what do we do with him do we need to process this witness
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request physical specimens photograph him and ask to search his person do we need to read him his rights and
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remind him that maybe he should have a lawyer present there is so much to do but today we are going to tell you a
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story that I think might make your temperature boil good little Detective because the true story we have for you
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the real life detective did very little hardly anything once the woman's body was removed
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this is true crime garage and this is the case of Lauren Smith fields [Music] this week we are going Seaside to
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Bridgeport Connecticut and Captain I don't know do we call this the Bumble murder case or the bungled murder case I
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say Bumble murder because some are saying a young woman and this is Lauren Smith Fields met with Foul Play after
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meeting a man on the Bumble dating app and I say I'm confused because that's of two simple facts here one we have 23
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year old Lauren smithfields dies under mysterious circumstances after a first date with a guy that she met using this
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app but then there's no investigation into her death that's right the Bridgeport Connecticut police detective
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and their office failed to investigate and failed to notify Lauren's family that she died so what's Bumble according
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to their website the Bumble app is more than an app it's a movement I love all these companies these days we're we're
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more than this we're more than that nope sorry you're an app True Crime garage is
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more than a podcast we're more than a podcast it's a lifestyle that's right so according to Bumble it's more than an
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app Captain it's a movement they say we encourage Integrity kindness equality confidence and respect during all stages
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of a relationship whether online or offline Bumble is where people go to learn how to establish and maintain
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healthier connections I I agree with that and I applaud the people over at Bumble they say when members of the
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opposite sex match on Bumble women are required to make the first move shifting old-fashioned power dynamics and
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encouraging equality from the start I think that's a good way to start things off now what happened to 23 year old
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Lauren Smith Fields well we go back just less than two months ago to the morning
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of December 12 2021 Emergency Services receive a 9-1-1 call about an unresponsive woman at a residence
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Emergency Services arrive it sounds like a police officer was there shortly after
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EMTs were on the scene because most of the Articles state that an officer found Lauren lying on her
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back on the floor with dried blood in and around her right nostril this is according to the police
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the officer says that they found a frantic man a quote frantic man who identified himself as someone who had
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only known Lauren for about three days the man said he had been doing chest compressions after being instructed to
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do so by the emergency operator on the phone the man was trembling and visibly shaken
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answered now we should note here that the man's name is given in some news reports and and purposely not given in
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most news reports so this man tells police that he arrived at Lauren's home the night before she invited him over to
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her place for what was to be according to him a first date according to this man the two were
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having a good time they were drinking shots of tequila for part of the night but at some point Lauren became ill and
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went to the bathroom to get sick but then later Lauren decided to continue drinking so now she's feeling
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better and they go back to having a good time the man says they drank more tequila
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with mixers played some games ate some food and watched a movie Lauren lived in an apartment on Plymouth
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Street in a busy part of Bridgeport at some point during the night Lauren's brother stopped by her home to collect
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clothes from her now from my understanding captain he doesn't come to the door I the way it
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sounds to me is he pulls up somewhere outside and Lauren kind of rushes out to meet him right it even sounds to me like
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the man wasn't really certain who Lauren was meeting with but whatever happened she's outside of the apartment
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for a brief period of time speaking with somebody the man says he doesn't see whoever Lauren is talking to and what
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Lauren's brother says is that he's not even aware that she's on a date so the brother doesn't go inside he doesn't
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even realize that there's somebody inside it sounds like right when Lauren comes back into the
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apartment the man says that Lauren went to the bathroom and she was in there for
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about 15 minutes a short time later Lauren fell asleep on the couch and the man was still at the
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apartment at this time he says he carried her to bed and then fell asleep next to her now he says when he woke up
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that morning he could see blood coming out of her nostril he then called 9-1-1 to request help
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Medics arrived and pronounced her dead their report indicates that Lauren had been dead for maybe an hour or so and
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not that it matters too much but I believe he stated at some point that he woke up around 3 30 and she was snoring
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and then when he woke up again around six o'clock or so when he went to use the restroom or something that's when he
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realized she wasn't breathing officers say that they collected several items as evidence and that they would take that
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with them before leaving and securing the apartment and next for reasons unknown the police
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failed and I say failed not by attempting and striking out no they failed to notify Lauren Smithfield's
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family of her untimely death failing to do so because from where I sit it appears very little to no attempt at all
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was made to contact her family so from statements from the family they're saying they they didn't find out that
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she had passed away to a day and a half later when they went to visit her apartment yeah and the way that this
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goes down here Captain is we have a family that at some point they try to reach out to Lauren they have no clue
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that anything terrible has happened when they're trying to reach out to their daughter or their sister the family
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eventually goes to her apartment and when they do so they find a note the note's not from the police it's from the
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landlord Lauren's landlord who says that hey you need to contact police or contact the landlord because Lauren is
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no longer with us she's she's now dead at this point this is not not the way a family should find out about their loved
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one passing on here we have a really bizarre situation and I'm not just talking about
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bizarre from the outside looking in there's all kinds of question marks when I see this thing right and I see that
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this thing is blown up on Tick Tock and we get several people emailing us dozens
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of people emailing us and saying hey do you know what's going on here in Connecticut and unfortunately I didn't
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know at the time and I'm going to say I'm even more saddened to know about it now after looking into this incident
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looking into the situation there in Bridgeport and we'll get into that more as we go through this case and this
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story but here we have a situation that for whatever reason this family is not notified
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and then of course they're going to have questions about their loved one's death
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why is she dead you know what what happened to this woman was it investigated if you didn't
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notify us we we have no reason to believe that you've done any other work on this case
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and she's found in the company of a man that we've never met we do not know this
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guy we don't know who he is and we don't know his involvement in her mysterious death like we said according to the male
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and the situation they only were talking for the last few days so obviously she didn't bring this up to her family I
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don't think it's that odd that she didn't tell her brother hey I have a guy over because sometimes that's the stuff
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you just don't share with your siblings so I don't find that odd but she's in good health she's young she is
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not a known drug user to the family so this just seems so out of left field she's attending college she has her own
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apartment things seem to be on the up and up with our victim Lauren here now we do have the police report which could
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offer some more detail as to the events of that night in the morning when she's found and I think we should pour over
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those details here now captain so according to this the responding officer was dispatched to Plymouth
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Street and this was on the report of a non-responsive female Medics and fire were dispatched there as well upon
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arrival and this is directly from the report upon arrival a knock on the door was answered by a frantic man later
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identified as blank now he his name has been redacted from the police report and
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again some news outlets are reporting his name and some are purposely not I do not know what side of the fence to fall
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on here so what we're going to do just so we quit saying the man will refer to this guy as Matt going forward so a
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frantic man Matt answered the door he directed me again this is from the officer's point of view he directed me
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to the rear of the apartment to a bedroom there I observed a young adult black male lying on her back on the
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floor she had dried blood in and around her right nostril she did not appear to be
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breathing he told me that the person on the phone instructed him to do chest compressions he picked up his phone and
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asked if he should keep doing them he was trembling and visibly shaken the call taker told him to hang up and speak
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with me the officer right I told him the Medics were on the way and the sirens could be heard in the distance I asked
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what her name was and he replied Lauren when I asked for her last name he said he wasn't sure but her Instagram page
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says it is Smith he stated that he has only known her for about three days and came here for the first time last night
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they met on the dating site Bumble fire and Medics arrived on the scene and began life-saving efforts for Lauren
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when asked Matt stated that after meeting on Bumble he found out that they had a mutual friend via Instagram and
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they began to chat there she invited him over for a date asking him to give her forty dollars to get her nails done and
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to bring a bottle of tequila he said he arrived at her home at approximately 9 30 p.m and tried to contact her via
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Instagram twice but she did not answer he said that he does not have any direct contact information for her you know a
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cell phone number Etc he only has this Instagram and Bumble information yeah a lot of times
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when somebody meets online they'll continue to communicate with whatever method they originally met and they want
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to exchange like cell phone numbers and stuff until maybe they know it's going to be more serious at first he says he
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thought he was stood up and he left but then Lauren called him to come back a short time later saying that she didn't
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answer his call because she was putting on her makeup he went on to say that they began drinking shots of tequila and
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Lauren became ill she went to the bathroom to vomit and was apologetic when she returned they then decided to
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drink the tequila and mixers they played some games ate some food and started to
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watch a movie Lauren was texting with someone and then told him that her brother was going to
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be dropping something off to her she went outside for a few minutes he says he never saw the brother when she came
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back in she went straight to the bathroom and she stayed in there for approximately 10 to 15 minutes he
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thought it was odd but didn't feel it was his place to say anything as he didn't know her that well
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they continued to watch the movie and finish the bottle of tequila this is uh Casa casamigos Tequila big bottle Lauren
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fell asleep on the couch so he carried her to her bedroom and laid her in her bed he then laid down next to her and
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fell asleep he says he woke up at approximately 3 A.M to use the restroom and Lauren was snoring at that time he
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woke up again at approximately 6 30 a.m and she was lying on her right side blood was coming out of her right
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nostril onto the bed and she was not breathing that is when he called 9-1-1 a bunch of things to go over yes one he's
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telling you we started our conversation through bumble okay well let me see the app let me see that communication okay
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then we continued our conversation on Instagram okay let me see Instagram let me see that conversation let me see your
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phone and then let me see her phone we know her phone's there but did they try to access it and maybe they couldn't
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because of passwords or whatever but you could at least have him access those two things and you could take
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screenshots of those and then send those to the officer's phone well there's all
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kinds of missteps that are going to be taken here in my opinion here captain now this responding officer is not the
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same as the detective so I think where we start messing things up is once this is handed off to the actual detective it
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looks to me that this officer and again I'm not familiar with Bridgeport Connecticut Police Department procedures
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but it appears to me that this responding officer is doing all the normal stuff right talking to the people
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on the scene right securing the scene making observations taking a report now the report goes on to say what this
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officer's actions were after this young woman unfortunately is pronounced dead so it would be at 6 49
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a.m when the Maddox told the officer that Lauren had been dead for at least an hour maybe more Matt gave a written
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field statement to his account of the events of that evening this officer the reporting officer notified a sergeant
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and request the detective Bureau supervisor be notified via dispatch so this is just simply a responding officer
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that's doing their job and now they're going to have to hand it off to the higher ups right we got to get a
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sergeant involved I'm going to notify the detective Bureau that we got a mysterious death we have a death
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investigation that needs to happen and there you're handing off the ball and hoping that they run with it and run
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with it in the right direction goes on to say that this officer contacted the medical examiner and the
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officer found a U.S passport identifying Lauren as Miss Lauren Smith Fields male
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with the same name on it inside the apartment a MasterCard with that name on it and
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1345 dollars in cash there was a cell phone on the couch that Matt identified as
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Lauren Smithfield's phone there's also some mail to some other people here and I don't feel comfortable mentioning
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their names because I don't know how they fit into this situation they could have been former roommates yep or she
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could have been house sitting or collecting somebody's mail could have been any number of things right the um
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the detective and Sergeant were notified and the sergeant Morales and detective Cronin arrived on scene at 8 12 a.m and
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the medical examiner arrived on the scene shortly after it goes on to say that the officer made contact with a
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Hector Torres he is the landlord and lives on the second floor he said that Lauren smithfields has lived there for
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almost a year he knows that her mother stops by occasionally but does not know her and has no contact information for
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her he was issued a complaint service form and asked to give it to Lauren Smithfield's mother the next time he
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sees her detective Cronin gave Mr Torres his contact information before he and Sergeant Morales left the scene after
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the body was removed I located a key that fit the front door I made sure all windows and doors were secure and all
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lights were off and locked both locks on the front door and left Ms Smithfield's
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money key passport MasterCard and cell phone were all turned into the property room for safe keeping slash further
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investigation now it still seems like they could do some kind of background check on her
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and and find maybe some phone numbers that they could try to call so they could try to reach out to our family yes
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yes it certainly does seem like they could have done that but uh or even look up prior addresses that would be in the
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system and and Drive by to see maybe that's her parents house and I'll read something directly from a CNN article
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here and there are several good news outlets that we found in regard to this case this from CNN the police did not
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notify Smithfield's family of her death instead the family found out a day later
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after visiting her apartment and finding a note from the landlord on Smithfield's
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apartment door quote the mom had been calling because Christmas dinner was supposed to be at Lauren's house that
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year they drove over there found a note on the door from the landlord that said if anyone was looking for Lauren call me
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the landlord the police never tried to reach out to the family they just took her body out of the home the family
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describes the detectives assigned to the case as quote rude and one of them saying that the detective treated the
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family badly when they called and met with police seeking answers about Smithfield's death during a meeting
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earlier this month so this would be January police told them that they did not find anything suspicious at the
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scene and a detective allegedly told them there was no blunt force trauma I believe also they were told to stop
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calling the police yeah exactly and this again from that same article uh Miss Smithfield's mother Chantal Fields said
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that she didn't find out about her daughter's death until a day and a half later on the evening of December 13th
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and police did not notify her about it instead Miss Fields said it was her daughter's landlord who put her family
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in touch with Detective Cronin who offered very few details over the phone and even hung up on them in a sub
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subsequent call this is Miss Fields quote here my son I'm presuming that this is the the same
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Sun that would have went over there that evening to meet with Lauren well in some
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of the news reports when the family is speaking with reporters uh I believe there's two brothers that are been
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interviewed perfect so she says my son talked to him meaning the detective detective Cronin and asked him what
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happened and Cronin said that she met a white guy on Bumble but don't worry about that he's a really nice guy end
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quote detective Cronin said he would meet with the mother of the decedent and her
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son at Miss Fields apartment they say that they waited for an hour and a half or more than an hour and a half and when
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they called him you know hey we're here waiting where are you are you on your way detective Cronin told them to stop
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calling she later the mother later had to beg the police to collect evidence from the scene and that's according to
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her lawyer this is absolutely unacceptable your job is to Serve and Protect and obviously you're not serving
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foreign [Music] [Music] here for years cheers everybody cheers captain well this is an aggravating story huh
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welcome to the garage just wait till I get started hey if you're at the gym this is a good story to be listening to
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because you can put a few more plates on on that bar and just go to town let your anger rise all right Captain we
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have a serious issue here we have a crime scene that I don't believe that was looked at to you have a situation
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where you have a mysterious death and as far as you know as a detective until it's ruled other
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you have to determine what actually occurred here and as you pointed out before we went to break you also have a
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man that is here at This Woman's apartment when you find her body yes we read how this story and what went down
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air quotes to Lauren Smith Fields the night before according to the news reports and then we even covered the
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police report from Bridgeport themselves of what went down with Lauren Smithfield's but we need to remind
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everybody that unfortunately a big problem with both the police report and how this story is reported is we don't
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have Lauren's version of the events from that night we only have this person that
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we're calling Matt we only have this Mac guy to tell us what happened the night before and in the morning when he woke
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up and he says he finds her unresponsive and believed to be dead at that time when he wakes up at 6 30 in the morning
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yeah if I'm the investigator I'm first wanting to know is this Matt guy telling me the truth okay so like I
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said where our communication was on Instagram and on Bumble well let me see that communication is he willing to show
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me that communication I think it's a red flag the fact that he moved her from the
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couch into the bedroom why are you doing that if I just met somebody a couple days ago and I woke up
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and they were carrying me to my bed I go what are you doing the normal reaction there would just put a blanket
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on them if you go lay in their bed and fall asleep that's fine but you didn't have to move her the
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other red flag is she's throwing up earlier from drinking and she goes back to drinking now if that's me
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I'm going I don't know you that well and that's not the appropriate reaction to throwing up is let's go back to drinking
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I go hey uh you're not feeling well I need to check myself out of this situation yes
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if your date carried you to your bed I would I would have some questions about that as big biceps she had big biceps
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you see the shoulders on that woman but what what we do know is that he also made the 9-1-1 call so if I'm an
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investigator I want to listen to that 9-1-1 call we know that he was doing chess chest compressions based off of
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the 911 operator telling him to do so he then hangs up the phone when they get there that's normal proper procedure but
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I'm going to go hey Matt who else knew that you were here who knew that you were talking to Lauren I want to talk to
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them I want to check your criminal record if he has one well I just want to yeah right I just want to check to see
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if there is a record uh what's this guy's background what's his work history did anybody see you
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come into the apartment are you willing to come down to the station and to do a proper interview there are you willing
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to take a lie detector he claims that there was no sexual intercourse okay well why why isn't there any tests done
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and the the big red flag is they find and what the reports are saying a used condom in the trash in a trash can I
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Believe In Her Bedroom Let's test that DNA because if he lied to you about that if
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if that DNA comes back to him well now he's he's fibbing on his story now the question becomes are you fibbing
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on your story to just protect yourself or are you some actual criminal well if he lied about that if he lied about that
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part of his story then his credibility has gone completely out the window and you cannot believe any of the rest of
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his statement now while we sit here and defend Lauren saying unfortunately she's
00:34:03
not here to give her side of the version of events we should also defend our person that we're calling Matt as well
00:34:10
because unfortunately we just don't know if she were here she may tell us yes that's
00:34:16
exactly how the night went down and he's perfectly innocent in this whole thing what we need to put the microscope on
00:34:23
though is everything you just said Captain are all the right questions that the detective should be asking
00:34:30
themselves and looking at the scene and talking to this person that was there he's the only witness according to his
00:34:37
story as to how things went down you need to shake that tree see what falls out and see if you think that this guy
00:34:44
is is credible based off of evidence what we have here is a situation where the detective tells the family
00:34:51
uh that you know that guy that we found in in the apartment at your dead sister's apartment uh yeah he seems like
00:34:58
a nice guy don't jump to any conclusions with him I wouldn't jump to any conclusions with him he seems like a
00:35:03
nice guy no no no the statement should have been look we're looking into every aspect of
00:35:10
this we're looking to see if a crime was committed and if so who committed that crime well right now
00:35:16
again let's just assume that Matt had nothing to do with this he he shows up at a girl's house that he doesn't really
00:35:23
know too well she's getting sick she ends up falling asleep or passing out she stops breathing this is a
00:35:30
devastating event cops don't do their job now this becomes national news world news
00:35:38
now your name is in most of the reports and people are saying this is a suspicious death possibly a murder well
00:35:47
your number one suspect so not only did the cops not Serve and Protect Lauren and her family but they didn't Serve and
00:35:55
Protect Matt unfortunately we know that in many situations anybody that's watched Dateline listen to this show for
00:36:01
any long long period of time you know that when we have a case especially of a a woman who is is murdered often it is
00:36:10
the husband or the boyfriend and I'm here to tell you it sounds to me that if you were a husband or a boyfriend
00:36:16
looking to off your your loved one your spouse you should probably live in Bridgeport and and request detective
00:36:24
Cronin show up to the scene because apparently detective Cronin if you if you seem frantic and panicked and if you
00:36:33
said that you did chest compressions and you were the one that called 9-1-1 well
00:36:37
he's gonna deem you to be a nice guy and not want to jump to any conclusions yeah
00:36:42
you know who else seemed to be a nice guy Ted Bundy you know who else seemed to be
00:36:47
a nice guy when they're doing their sermons on Sunday BTK John Wayne Gacy was charismatic as hell yeah the medical
00:36:54
examiner ruled Lauren Smith's Field's death was accidental and caused by acute intoxication due to the combined effects
00:37:02
of fentanyl promethazine hydroxyzine and alcohol and if I mispronounce any of those I want you to know they have
00:37:10
revoked my medical license yes but he's still studying and doing research on computers now the family obviously is
00:37:20
upset about a number of things but specifically uncollected evidence or stuff that could be possible evidence if
00:37:27
in fact the crime was committed here and their attorney alleges that the family found a used condom as the captain
00:37:34
pointed out a sedative pill and blood-stained sheets and overturned plate of food in bottles of alcohol so
00:37:43
the bloodstain sheet I'd like to see this for myself because we do know that the victim was bleeding through the
00:37:49
nostril and if it's just a little bit of blood then that would explain you know to say Blood Stained sheet or sheets
00:37:55
makes it sound like it was a bloodbath and I can't believe that that would be the scene but yeah but but here's the
00:38:02
difference if if you tell me oh I found her and her her nose was bleeding but but that blood stains by her knee right
00:38:10
well now we have an issue right and the on top of that this family look and not all family members know what everybody
00:38:19
in their family is doing is it possible that she used drugs from time to time or
00:38:25
she has experimented she might have never experimented until that day so but when the when the family says
00:38:35
look she wasn't a known drug user to us how the hell does she have fentanyl in her system and that's what they don't
00:38:42
explain to you that they're not telling you that how that fentanyl got into her system was it ingested orally was it
00:38:49
ingested through the nasal was it what did she shoot up is there traffic patch yeah is there track marks and then these
00:38:56
prescription pills well let's let's look through the house and to see or let's contact her doctor
00:39:04
and were these prescribed medicines given to her right by a physician or were these
00:39:12
prescription medication that she was getting from somebody now now again that leads you to evidence
00:39:18
if you go well she she had all these prescription drugs in her system but there was nothing to show that she had a
00:39:26
prescription then you then go back to question Matt did he have a prescription for these how
00:39:33
did these get into her system I think is a big how did they get into her system was was she drugged how did these items
00:39:40
get into her apartment and the thing is look let me run a scenario by you that is a possible scenario in this situation
00:39:48
you have a family that says our loved one did not do drugs we we or at least to our knowledge did not do drugs right
00:39:55
and we have a man here who says that consensually he spent the night or was at her apartment at least leading up to
00:40:04
her falling asleep and then wakes up and finds her dead in the morning calls 9-1-1 don't worry detective Cronin says
00:40:11
he seems like a nice guy but now we run we run Matt's information into our computers and finding out this guy's got
00:40:19
a whole bunch of drug charges right stemming back years now don't you start to go okay well maybe we have a
00:40:26
situation here the thing is with these items that I just mentioned none of these items were collected originally as
00:40:33
evidence or even possible evidence or photographs taken of any of this stuff as well we have one thing that I can
00:40:40
point to again I'd like to see the sheet the bed sheet because it's it's left very vague the description of this bed
00:40:48
sheet but that aside we have this overturned plate of food this might indicate that something else was going
00:40:55
on differently that night than what we're being told by the only living person that is in the apartment when we
00:41:02
arrive there to try to save this young woman's life my big issues test the damn condom because if you test that condom
00:41:10
and it goes back to Matt and this guy's a lying piece of [ __ ] that fills the need that he has to drug somebody in
00:41:17
order to have sex with them and and then also during the autopsy why not run a rape kit I don't know that could have
00:41:24
been done that could have been conducted in all fairness right from my understanding I looked for the autopsy
00:41:30
report there are several news outlets that state that it has been sealed and it's not been released to the general
00:41:36
public well here's the thing if you're rolling an accidental overdose then it's case closed and guess who gets to see
00:41:44
those Case Files the family but you're not in communication with the family you're not being respectful for the
00:41:51
family so shame on you oddly enough though Captain this is not the only story that ends up this way coming out of the
00:42:01
same area strangely enough we have Brenda Lee Rawls who is found dead the same day and again her family is not
00:42:10
notified of her untimely death as well and this is this is all going on not just in the same City of Bridgeport but
00:42:18
the same neighborhood but we don't believe the same officers were connected to that case no I believe that it was a
00:42:26
different officer so a little background on this other story is that Ms Ross worked as a customer service
00:42:33
representative for most of her career her sister describes her as a family person who was extremely funny she loved
00:42:40
to laugh and make jokes uh even in bad times she would make a bad situation into a funny situation now
00:42:47
it's unclear to me and I've searched high and low and it doesn't seem like any new information has come out in
00:42:54
regard to Brenda Lee Rawls but it's unclear how she died there was no physical signs of Trauma from my
00:43:01
understanding or even Foul Play the medical examiner would be in charge obviously of determining the cause of
00:43:08
death on December 14th after realizing that Miss Ross had stopped responding to their text messages and phone calls her
00:43:18
sisters and some other relatives decided to go to her apartment she wasn't there
00:43:22
so they went a few doors down to one of their friends Apartments there at his apartment he
00:43:29
told them that Ms Ross died two days earlier in his home after he was unable to wake her up in the morning it's it's
00:43:37
Eerie how similar these stories are he calls 9-1-1 and her body was taken away he handed some of her clothing to her
00:43:45
family when he's telling them hey she she passed away but again they were not notified by the police and Miss Ross
00:43:54
lived just two miles away from Lauren Smith Fields who died on the morning of December 12th so this is all happening
00:44:01
within days of of one another and they're just sad I mean horribly despicable stories to learn of a loved
00:44:09
one the loss of a loved one and then learn that nobody even bothered to tell you right the the right precautions the
00:44:17
right precautions or the the right attempts were all there by the persons that were with the person when they did
00:44:25
when they were found East calling notifying 9-1-1 police on the scene Medics on the scene yet that's as far as
00:44:33
it goes that's as far as it goes in Bridgeport you know some are speculating that
00:44:37
that's as far as it goes if you're a black person in Bridgeport right there's been a lot of reports coming out that
00:44:45
other officers and other people in the community were trying to warn people about this is their lack of effort when
00:44:53
it comes to a black victim but it's absolutely pathetic police work and there's a lot of great cops out
00:45:03
there and there's a lot of great detectives trying to do the right thing doing their job serving and protecting
00:45:09
and these scumbags give everybody else a bad name but in this case like I said Lauren is a
00:45:17
victim but if if Matt is innocent then he's a victim as well and they should have done their due diligence to figure
00:45:26
out where he stands because look so and you can get more into detail they suspend both of the officers
00:45:36
and they go hey we're going to investigate the investigation and we're going to reinvestigate the death okay
00:45:42
now the at least the department is trying to do the right thing so kudos to them but now what happens if
00:45:48
Matt goes well this is national news now I better get a lawyer then people are going to
00:45:53
speculate that oh well he got a lawyer he lawyered up so now he's guilty which I mean
00:46:00
anybody look initial the initial investigation be open with police and if you think that they think you're
00:46:08
suspicious of something get a lawyer to navigate you through the questioning here's the other problem but at this
00:46:16
point he would have to be an absolute [ __ ] not to lawyer up here's the other problem too for everybody
00:46:23
for everybody is it the detective does not know [ __ ] at that time right on that day doesn't
00:46:32
even bother to notify the family now we have to sit and wait for the medical examiner to come to a conclusion on
00:46:39
cause and manner of death what if days later the the medical examiner comes back and says
00:46:46
rules of the homicide you let all this time go by you didn't collect evidence you didn't do any type of investigation
00:46:54
you didn't take any type of photographs where does your case sit if it does turn
00:46:59
to a homicide it's it's it sits as a pile of [ __ ] right in the trash can yeah since these terrible tragedies
00:47:06
Bridgeport mayor Joe ganim says he's working on this situation and issues a public apology we have that clip here
00:47:14
for you now once again want to express my condolences to the families of Lawrence smithfields and also the
00:47:21
family of Brenda Lee Rawls after reviewing these matters even more closely I've now directed Deputy Chief
00:47:29
baraha of the Bridgeport Police Department to immediately put on leave the two officers who are the subject of
00:47:36
the Bridgeport Internal Affairs investigation and disciplinary action for their lack of sensitivity to the
00:47:42
public and their failure to follow police procedure and the handling of these two matters
00:47:49
let me be clear effective immediately both detective Lanos detective Cronin are suspended from duties and put on
00:47:57
administrative leave from the Bridgeport Police Department until such time as the
00:48:02
oia investigation and disciplinary cases have been completed regarding Lauren Smithfield's
00:48:09
and Brenda Lee's Brenda Lee Rawls cases the Bridgeport Police Department has high standards for officer sensitivity
00:48:17
especially in matters involving the death of a family member it is an unaccepted failure if policies
00:48:25
were not followed to the families friends and all who care about human decency that that should be shown in these
00:48:33
situations in this case by members of the police department I'm very sorry in addition the officer was in charge of
00:48:42
always seeing these matters has retired from the Department as of this past Friday
00:48:48
to again make it clear both to members of the public and to the Department insensitivity
00:48:55
disrespect in action or deviation from policy will not be tolerated by me or others in
00:49:03
this Administration my disappointment and demand for accountability in these and all other
00:49:10
matters brought to my attention will remain until all the questions are answered
00:49:15
to the satisfaction of all it should also be noted that the untimely death of Lauren
00:49:23
Smithfield's and Brenda Lee Rawls are both still under active investigation and have been reassigned to members of
00:49:31
the Bridgeport Police Department to resolve I want to thank attorney Crossland and the family and the thousands of
00:49:38
others for reaching out and asking the questions that needed to be asked and that still need answers
00:49:46
I as mayor but also as a father cannot fully comprehend what must be going through
00:49:54
I can only pledge by continued support to try and ease your pain by getting answers and holding those responsible
00:50:01
accountable yeah again like I said it's absolutely pathetic just the lack of of care
00:50:10
again you can do an investigation but you lost precious time and you lost precious resources once you have access
00:50:17
to her house once you put her into an ambulance to have her go to the hospital you now have access to the full crime
00:50:26
scene and now they've lost that ability so again I think there's still going to be
00:50:31
question marks later and that doesn't do service to Lauren that doesn't do service to Matt that doesn't do service
00:50:38
to the community or her family and you have to applaud her mother when something like this happens and and you
00:50:45
and you have a sense that there's something wrong here her family should be applauded
00:50:53
for pointing out hey there's something not right here yes both families Brenda Lee Ross family and Lauren Smith's
00:50:59
family Smithfield's family should be applauded here because they are not just they're
00:51:06
not just trying to solve and create a solution to this problem the problem that affected their families
00:51:14
they are bringing a attention in my opinion to a problem that is city-wide right this is a huge problem an ongoing
00:51:23
problem in the city and I have to I have to read part of this article this was a
00:51:28
brilliant article gangbusters work by the good people over at buzzfeed.com this article was posted just last Friday
00:51:36
the articles by uh Tabitha Serana Caroline O'Donovan Stephanie bear and Andrea click and basically the article
00:51:47
is about racism within the police department itself and the article is titled black officers have tried to
00:51:54
sound the alarm on the police department overseeing Lauren Smithfield's case for
00:52:00
years BuzzFeed saying that the Lauren Smith Fields case is just the latest in a string of troubling incidents for the
00:52:09
department and I agree after reading this article listen to what they have uncovered BuzzFeed says in recent years
00:52:15
complaints from black officers have offered a window into the Department's internal culture and accusing top
00:52:22
leaders of racist conduct back in August of 2018 Captain strebel a top Aid to police
00:52:31
chief with more than two decades at the agency step down after complaints of racist text had surfaced in one text
00:52:40
later published in court documents this officer Captain Straubel he referred to a local Juneteenth event that he was
00:52:53
asked to attend as an n-word parade in another text he said he asked a black Captain
00:53:00
who was running to become police chief his name is Roderick Porter if seeing the film Planet of the Apes made him
00:53:06
homesick these are from court documents this he also called African Americans a cancer in text and said he hoped for a
00:53:16
race war well that's that's really intelligent of you there sir Straubel himself later argued in a suit in a
00:53:24
lawsuit that his comments were part of a widespread culture in the agency perpetuated by the former Chief who he
00:53:33
accused of regularly using racial slurs talking about genocidal fantasies in reference to members of the black race
00:53:41
and saying that the former Chief was even drunk at work okay so before I go back to the article let's
00:53:49
just address this this is horrible despicable Behavior by this this Captain he gets called out on it obviously he's
00:53:58
racist as hell and when he gets called out on it he he's admitting to doing it but says you
00:54:05
know I did it because the chief did stuff like that too oh yeah the old like that's like very second grade of you
00:54:13
there sir to go oh yeah I did it but it was only because these other guys were doing it too well not only should the
00:54:19
black officers be pissed off but the other white officers should should be equally pissed off if not more pissed
00:54:26
off because this is painting your whole department as a bunch of racist clowns well what it appears to me based off of
00:54:34
the statements of this captain who it admits to what he has done is Captain [ __ ] it's confirming that
00:54:43
yes the higher ups in this department at one time and likely still are behaving this way
00:54:51
are conducting themselves in this type of of manner they should be fired and they should not get a pension and this
00:54:58
is the reason why you your your salary your pension your retirement your your health coverage all that stuff is paid
00:55:06
for by the taxpayers that you swore you're going to Serve and Protect and you have not done so you've you have to
00:55:14
you have decided which citizens to Serve and Protect and which ones you want I would question if they're serving any of
00:55:21
the citizens at all if they're behaving this way correct um so the the chief that we just talked about this is uh
00:55:28
Armando Perez resigned in 2020 and went to prison for obtaining his position through an exam rigging scheme since
00:55:38
then about a dozen black officers have filed internal complaints about lack of training and opportunities for promotion
00:55:44
hostile work environment and retali creation for speaking up and this comes from a divon polite the president of the
00:55:54
Guardians which is an organization for officers who are people of color so good for them they have some kind of
00:56:01
representation here Devon polite who is half Italian and half black was granted probation in 2018 after facing
00:56:10
second-degree assault charges for allegedly dragging a man from his car and beating him after the man struck his
00:56:17
Mercedes again this goes back to and I know that he's on the side of the of the black officers but I don't understand
00:56:25
look Devon polite's probably trying to do some good work I don't know that I want a police force where we have guys
00:56:33
that are higher up in the force that have assault charges or assault convictions I don't want racist on my
00:56:39
police force either especially higher up in the police force or in any Organization for that matter I don't
00:56:46
even care if you're the janitor if you're races you're gone one day the janitor is going to run this garage you
00:56:51
watch your filthy mouth yeah it's there's no place in society for this ignorance and I don't understand why
00:56:58
again if you're a white officer and you've stepped by and let this stuff happen you're just as much of a part of
00:57:05
the problem you saw the burning building and you didn't call for help you didn't
00:57:09
pick up a bucket of water and try to do something it's it's pathetic is what it is the Department's only black captains
00:57:17
have both filed lawsuits against the agency they say their responsibilities were curtailed after speaking up against
00:57:24
leaders now one of them this is Roderick Porter was a finalist for chief in 2018
00:57:30
in lawsuits and complaints with the state he argues that the department passed him over in favor of Perez
00:57:37
because he had opposed straubel's racist comments he also accused the agency of a
00:57:45
racially hostile work environment and says Perez tried to hide straubel's racist messages after he learned of them
00:57:53
and failed to investigate then in 2019 a spokesperson for mayor ganum said he was outraged by the racist remarks of
00:58:04
Straubel but in court filings the city denied that Perez was aware of the contents of these text messages and said
00:58:13
Internal Affairs Affairs did investigate the matter at the time noting that Straubel was put on administrative leave
00:58:20
the city also denied that Porter was more qualified for the job of acting Chief saying that Perez quote was a
00:58:29
police officer longer and had more experience in command positions and was well liked in the community end quote
00:58:36
now the mayor denied participating in Perez's scheme for advocating for him to become Chief now I don't I don't
00:58:44
question that one bit but after Perez stepped down pleading guilty and went to prison Porter was the only remaining
00:58:51
candidate for the job of acting Chief from the previous list of finalists but the city chose Captain Rebecca Garcia
00:58:59
instead Garcia is the current captain from my understanding here Captain last November a judge found her promotion was
00:59:07
also part of Perez's exam rigging scheme so like most places you know this is this is fairly common from my
00:59:15
understanding and a lot of these law enforcement agencies they use these exams as the primary reason for why one
00:59:24
person would get a promotion over the other however we're seeing in this situation this has been ruled by a court
00:59:29
this is not the colonel here coming up to his own conclusions it's been ruled by the court that this was there was
00:59:36
some illegal rigging of this exam and of this of this process to put Perez in the
00:59:43
position of police chief and probably promoting others along the way as well so what you're seeing here is this
00:59:51
Police Department is screwed up from top to bottom after 300 community members marched to the mayor's office demanding
01:00:00
action in Lawrence with Fields case mayor ganum demanded that the department present him with three new finalists for
01:00:08
the police chief job within 150 days I would like to go back to that after We examined the rest of this
01:00:16
buzzfeed.com article in court filings the city said that the Undisputed facts demonstrate that Porter was not
01:00:24
subjected to hostile work environment and that the decision not to select him as the chief of Bridgeport Police
01:00:30
Department the acting Chief or the assistant deputy chief was not based on his race or color a representative for
01:00:38
the city this is Scott Appleby said that promotions within the police department
01:00:43
are conducted by a civil service exam process well we need to change that process because it's broken we've
01:00:50
already seen how it's screwed up the department so far the article goes on to say quote regarding any discrimination
01:00:56
complaints the City of Bridgeport and the police department take these matters seriously Appleby said in via email the
01:01:04
city immediately refers each complaint to an outside firm that specializes in employment matters for independent
01:01:11
investigations end quote okay so they give when we have these matters that come up when we have complaints that
01:01:18
come up we hand this off to an outside firm that's smart that's smart let's let somebody that doesn't have a dog in the
01:01:25
fight examine the situation and issue a ruling so we can figure out if there was
01:01:31
wrongdoing and if so who do we penalize that's great I applaud that that's smart
01:01:36
however according to this article these cases are still open and these are months and
01:01:42
months old maybe it's time to get a new outside firm to look into this situation
01:01:48
they're not doing their job either right so let's give it off to somebody that seems to be incapable of coming to a
01:01:54
conclusion as to what happened if there was wrongdoing or not bring me in for a weekend I'll tell you who's a [ __ ] bag
01:01:59
and who's not according to this article racial discrimination within within the Bridgeport Police Department is nothing
01:02:07
new quote it goes back to the 70s 80s and 90s end quote this is according to Captain Porter uh quote we were under
01:02:16
special Master Federal oversight for a number of years now the Bridgeport Police Department operated under this
01:02:23
Federal oversight from 1983 to 2010 for nearly 30 years the agency's issues with
01:02:31
race were so blatant in the 1980s that 33 black officers all but one patrolled the most dangerous
01:02:40
neighborhoods putting all of the black officers basically on the front line in in the in the danger zone if you will
01:02:47
while the white officers get to patrol the less dangerous neighborhoods yeah or sit behind a desk and do nothing but
01:02:54
tell horrible jokes so a federal judge had assigned a special Master to ensure equal opportunity with powers to
01:03:03
administer assign and discipline officers which the agency had to pay for but ever since the agreement dissolved
01:03:10
the agency has been in a downward spiral this according to the local NAACP president
01:03:19
black officers have been calling for federal oversight to be reinstated for months and they have
01:03:25
been joined by Advocates and city council members uh one in particular is Maria Pereira again Bridgeport city
01:03:35
councilwoman Maria Pereira says quote Bridgeport Police Department has by far the largest budget in the state of
01:03:44
Connecticut and what we get for it is a police department that is in shambles it's chaos end quote now in all fairness
01:03:52
to that statement all of that statement to me yes it's her opinion but it appears to be true to me
01:03:59
uh this department is in shambles and if she says that they have the largest budget then I believe it she's the city
01:04:06
councilwoman but in all fairness we should point out that Bridgeport is the largest city in Connecticut so they
01:04:11
should have the largest budget what we have here Captain though is a situation too where the one of the later lines in
01:04:22
this article really needs to be underlined and echoed until this problem is solved and
01:04:30
corrected it says this is by one of the officers one of the Bridgeport police officers
01:04:37
says quote we need Court oversight if we are being mistreated in this department
01:04:42
with our own people here you can imagine what is going on outside end quote and that's what we're seeing now what is
01:04:51
going on outside where we have the media responding to the mishandling of the brander Lee Ross case and the Lauren
01:05:00
Smith Fields case yeah they need to do a second investigation they need to do a second autopsy and they need to be in
01:05:08
close communication with her friends and family to make sure that they feel comfortable about the
01:05:16
investigation and that they feel that the investigation is as thorough as they wish well what needs to happen in these
01:05:24
suitcases especially in the Lauren Smithfield's case is uh because we have some more details in that case than we
01:05:30
do the Brenda Lee Ross case so it's a little clear to me what I believe should happen and I think that what needs to
01:05:36
happen here is an outside investigation needs to take place an outside agency needs to come in and conduct a proper
01:05:43
and as you said thorough investigation into both of these situations and it should include a civil rights probe by
01:05:50
the justice department by officials from the justice department uh into the Bridgeport Police Department itself I
01:05:57
think that it's slightly respectful that mayor ganum gave and issued an apology to the families we do have city
01:06:08
councilwoman Maria Pereira who says look both of the families reject the mayor's apology and she says that he
01:06:16
should have called them to his office and spoke with them in person I agree with that 100 percent I do want to point
01:06:23
out something here hold on that's what's so [ __ ] about people be a human reach out to them call them meet them
01:06:32
face to face don't just get in front of a camera it's almost like a show like oh well I'm just gonna go in and
01:06:40
I'm going to parade around and in front of the camera but why not reach out to them these are humans that lost their
01:06:48
their daughter that lost their sister like that that shows no class well and I do want to point out
01:06:54
something here too I I seem to I think I like this Maria Pereira she seems to be
01:06:59
a bit of a whistleblower she's calling things what they are and pointing out problems that they have I just hope
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that she is offering Solutions at some point she is a city council woman and I hope that her and the rest of the city
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council are a part of the solution and start creating Solutions rather than just pointing to things and saying hey
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that's a problem and this is why it's a problem and the mayor really look you you got to get your [ __ ] together my
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friend because here's the problem I understand that you're demanding that the department uh send you three
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candidates for a new police chief within the next 150 days I believe it says no that's as lazy as what some of your
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upper staff in the department is doing present me with three candidates in the next 150 days no man you need to get in
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there and you need to get your hands dirty and do some damn work and get this straightened out because right now your
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city is [ __ ] and you are the fat filthy pig that is sitting in it that is just
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sitting in it your department is a disgrace and if you have these problems within your Police Department I cannot
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imagine the problems that you have in your other departments that you oversee as mayor this needs to become your top
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priority and look this agency as messed up as as it seems to be maybe they're not the
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best ones to be to be presenting candidates to you again I also I don't understand why some of this stuff takes
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so long you could sit down with everybody in the department and and speak with each one
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of them individually you know for just a small period of time to to to ask them face to face
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give me a couple names of who you think should be running these departments and you're going to see the same names kind
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of popping up because these officers the respected officers and the ones that are
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doing the right thing most of the other officers know about it so but it's this whole case is
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absolutely pathetic and and it's and and I feel also bad for all the other like I said all the other law
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enforcement officers that wake up every day and they put their life on the line and they try to do the right thing and
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they protect people and they serve their communities no matter what race they are
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and it's just uh I I hope that they can do a thorough investigation than an investigation that the family
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feels confident in [Music] so many questions hopefully Lauren's family gets some answers for everything
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