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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 woman so you're
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not sure why she's unresponsive the man says that the woman lives there are you her husband do you
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live here too you ask no he says what's her name you ask he provides a first name he says he tried giving her chest
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compressions but it didn't work sadly the woman is dead upon your arrival once she is removed from the
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scene the coroner will do their thing but this is a mysterious death a call you responded to and as it goes in most
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jurisdictions that means you just caught a case This Woman's mysterious death is
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now your investigation you're in charge and while you wait for lab tests to be run the
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possible multiple crimes having been committed you need to speak with her family and ask them the appropriate
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questions as well and as for your quote witness what do we do with him do we need to process this witness request
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physical specimens photograph him and ask to search his person do we need to read him his rights and remind him that
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detective did very little hardly anything once the woman's body was removed this is true crime garage and
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this is the case of Lauren smithfields I don't [Music] want 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
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23-year-old Lawrence smithfields dies under mysterious circumstances after a first date with a guy that she met using
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this app but then there's no investigation into her death that's right the Bridgeport Connecticut police
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detective and their office failed to investigate and failed to notify Lauren's family that she died so what's
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Bumble according to their website the Bumble app is more than an app it's a movement I love all these companies
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these days we're we're more than this we're more than that nope sorry you're an app trueb garage is more than a
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podcast we're more than a podcast it's a lifestyle that's right so according to Bumble it's more than an app Captain
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it's a movement they say we encourage Integrity kindness equality confidence and respect during all stages of a
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relationship whether online or offline Bumble is where people go to learn how to establish and maintain healthier
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connections I I agree with that and I applaud the people over at Bumble they say when members of the opposite sex
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match on Bumble women are required to make the first move shifting oldfashioned 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 2 months ago to the morning of
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December 12th 2021 Emergency Services receive a 911 call about an unresponsive woman at a residence Emergency Services
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arrive it sounds like a police officer was there shortly after EMTs were on the scene because most of the Articles state
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that an officer found Lauren lying on her back on on the floor with dried blood in and around her right nostril
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this is according to the police the officer says that they found a frantic man a quote frantic man who identified
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himself as someone who had only known Lauren for about 3 days the man said he had been doing chest compressions after
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being instructed to do so by the emergency operator on the phone the man was trembling and visibly shaken anded
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now we should note here that the man's name is given in some news reports and and purposely not given in most news
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reports so this man tells police that he arrived at Lauren's home the night before she invited him over to her place
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for what was to be according to him a first date according to this man the two were having a good time they were
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drinking shots of tequila for part of the night but at some point Lauren became ill and went to the bathroom to
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get sick but then later Lauren decided to continue drinking so now she's feeling better and they go back to
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having a good time the man says they drank more teila with mixers played some games ate some food and watched a movie
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Lauren lived in an apartment on Plymouth Street in a busy part of Bridgeport at some point during the
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night Lauren's brother stopped by her home to collect clothes from her now from my understanding Captain he doesn't
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come to the door I the way it sounds to me is he pulls up somewhere outside and Lauren kind of rushes out to meet him
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right it even sounds to me like the man wasn't really certain who Lauren was meeting with but whatever happened she's
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outside of the apartment for a brief period of time speaking with somebody the man says he doesn't see whoever
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Lauren is talking to and what Lauren's brother says is that he's not even aware that that she's on a date so the brother
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doesn't go inside he doesn't even realize that there's somebody inside it sounds like right when Lauren comes back
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into the apartment the man says that Lauren went to the bathroom and she was in there for about 15 minutes a short
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time later Lauren fell asleep on the couch and the man was still at the apartment at this time he says he
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carried her to bed and then fell asleep next to her now he says when he woke up that morning he could see blood coming
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out of her nostril he then called 911 to request help medic arrived and pronounced her dead their report
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indicates that Lauren had been dead for maybe an hour or so and not that it matters too much but I believe he stated
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at some point that he woke up around 3:30 and she was snoring and then when he woke up again around 6:00 or so when
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he went to use the restroom or something that's when he realized she wasn't breathing officers say that they
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collected several items as evidence and that they would take that with them before leaving and securing the
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apartment and next for reasons unknown the police failed and I say failed not by attempting and striking out no they
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failed to notify Lauren Smithfield's family of her untimely death failing to do so because from where I sit it
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appears very little to no attempt at all was made to contact her family so from statements from the family they're
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saying they they didn't find out that she had passed away till a day and a half later when they went to visit her
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apartment yeah and the way that this goes down here Captain is we have a family that at some point they try to
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reach out to Lauren they have no clue that anything terrible has happened when they're trying to reach out to their
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daughter or their sister the family eventually goes to her apartment and when they do so they find a note the
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note's not from the police it's from the landlord Lauren's landlord who says that
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hey you need to contact police or contact the landlord because Lauren is no longer with us she she's she's now
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dead at this point this is 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 bizarre from the outside
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looking in there's all kinds of question marks when I see this thing right and I
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see that this thing is blown up on Tik Tok and we get several people emailing us dozens of people emailing us and
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saying hey do you know what's going on here in Connecticut and unfortunately I didn't at the time and I'm going to say
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I'm even more saddened to know about it now after looking into this incident looking into the situation there in
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Bridgeport and we'll get into that more as we go through uh this case and this story but here we have a situation that
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for whatever reason this family is not notified and then of course they're going to have questions about their
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loved ones death why is she dead you know what what happened to this woman was it investigated if you didn't notify
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us we we have no reason to believe that you've done any other work on this case and she's found in the company of a man
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that we've never met we do not know this guy we don't know who he is and we don't
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know his involvement in her mysterious death like we said according to the mail and this situation they only were
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talking for the last few days so obviously she didn't bring this up to her family I don't think it's that odd
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that she didn't tell her brother hey I have a guy over cuz sometimes that's the stuff you just don't share with your
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siblings so I don't find that odd but she's in good health she's young she is not a known drug user to the family so
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this just seems so out of left field she's attending college she has her own apartment things seem to be on the up
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and up with our victim Lauren here now we do have the police report which could offer some more detail tale as to the
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events of that night in the morning when she's found and I think we should pour over those details here now Captain so
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according to this the responding officer was dispatched to Plymouth Street and this was on the report of a
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non-responsive female Medics and fire were dispatched there as well upon arrival and this is directly from the
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report upon arrival a knock on the door was answered by a frantic man later identified as blank now he his name has
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been redacted from the police report and again some news outlets are reporting his name and some are purposely not I do
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not know what side of the fence to fall on here so what we're going to do just so we quit saying the man will refer to
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this guy as Matt going forward so a frantic man Matt answered the door he directed me again this is from the
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officer's point of view he directed me to the rear of the apartment to a bedroom there I observed d a young adult
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black male lying on her back on the floor she had dried blood in and around her right nostril she did not appear to
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be 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 3 days and came here for the first time last night they
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met on the dating site Bumble fire and Medics arrived on the scene and began life saving efforts for Lauren when
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asked Matt stated that after meeting on Bumble he found out that they had a mutual friend via Instagram and they
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began to chat there she invited him over for a date asking him to give her $40 to
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get her nails done and to bring a bottle of tequila he said he arrived at her home at approximately 9:30 p.m. and
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tried to contact her via Instagram twice but she did not answer he said that he does not have any direct contact
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information for her you know a cell phone number Etc he only has this Instagram and Bumble information yeah a
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lot of times when somebody meets online they'll continue to communicate with whatever method they originally met and
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they want exchange like cell phone numbers and stuff until maybe they know it's going to be more serious at first
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he says he thought he was stood up and he left but then Lauren called him to come back a short time later saying that
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she didn't answer his call because she was putting on her makeup he went on to say that they began drinking shots of
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tequila and Lauren became ill she went to the bathroom to vomit and was apologetic when she returned they then
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decided to drink the tequila and mixers they played some games ate some food and
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started to watch a movie Lauren was texting with someone and then told him that her brother was going to be
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dropping something off to her she went outside for a few minutes he says he never saw the brother when she came back
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in she went straight to the bathroom and she stayed in there for approximately 10
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to 15 minutes he 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 Kasa 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 3:00 a.m. to use the restroom and Lauren was snoring at that
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time he 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 911 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
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that communication okay then we continued our conversation on Instagram okay let me see Instagram let me see
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that conversation let me see your phone and then let me see her phone we know her phone's there but did they try to
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access it and maybe they couldn't because of passwords or whatever but you could at least have him access those two
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things and you can take screenshots of those and then send those to the officer's phone well there's all kinds
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of missteps that are going to be taken here in my opinion here captain now this responding officer is not the same as
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the detective so I think where we start messing things up is once this is handed
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off to the actual detective it looks to me that this officer and again I'm not familiar with Bridgeport Connecticut
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Police Department procedures but it appears to me that this responding officer is doing all the
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normal stuff right talking to the people on the scene right securing the scene making observations taking a report now
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the report goes on to say what this officer's actions were after this young woman unfortunately is pronounced dead
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so it would be at 6:49 a.m. when the madx told the officer that Lauren had been dead for at least
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an hour maybe more Matt gave a written field statement to his account of the events of that evening this officer the
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reporting officer notified a sergeant and request the detective Bureau supervisor be notified via dispatch so
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this is just simply a responding officer that's doing their job and now they're going to have to hand it off to the
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higher ups right we got to get a sergeant involved I'm going to notify the detective Bureau that we got a
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mysterious death we have a death investigation that needs to happen and they're you're handing off the ball and
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hoping that they run with it and run with it in the right direction goes on to say that this officer contacted the
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medical examiner and the officer found a US passport identifying Lauren as Miss Lauren Smith Fields male with the same
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name on it inside the apartment a MasterCard with that name on it and 1,34 $45 in cash there was a cell phone on
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the couch that Matt identified as Lauren Smithfield's phone there's also some mail to some other people here and I
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don't feel comfortable mentioning their names because I don't know how they fit into this situation they could have been
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form her roommates yep or she could have been house sitting or or collecting somebody's mail could have been any
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number of things right the um the detective and Sergeant were notified and the sergeant Morales and Detective
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Cronin arrived on scene at 8:12 a.m. and the medical examiner arrived on the scene shortly after it goes on to say
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that the officer made contact with a Hector Torres he is the landlord and lives on the second floor he said that
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Laurence smithfields has lived there for almost a year he knows that her mother stops by occasionally but does not know
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her and has no contact information for her he was issued a complaint service form and asked to give it to Lawrence
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Miss Field's mother the next time he sees her detective Cronin gave Mr Torres his contact information before he and
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Sergeant Morales left the scene after the body was removed I located a key that fit the front door I made sure all
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windows and doors were secure and all lights were off and locked both locks on the front door and left Miz smithfields
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money key passport MasterCard and cell phone were all turned into the property room for safekeeping slf further
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investigation now it still seems like they could do some kind of background check on her and and find maybe some
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phone numbers that they could try to call so they could try to reach out to her family yes yes it certainly does
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seem like they could have done that but uh or even look up prior addresses that would be in the system and and Drive by
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to see maybe that's her parents house and I'll read something directly from a CNN article here and there are several
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good news outlets that we found in regard to this case this from CNN the police did not notify Smithfield's
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family of her death instead the family found out a day later after visiting her apartment and finding a note from the
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landlord on Smithfield's apartment door quote the mom had been calling because Christmas dinner was supposed to be at
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Lauren's house that year they drove over there found a note on the door from the
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landlord that said if anyone was looking for Lauren call me the landlord the police never tried to reach out to the
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family they just took her body out of the home the family describes the detectives aign to the case as quote
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rude and one of them saying that the detective treated the family badly when they called and met with police seeking
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answers about Smithfield's death during a meeting earlier this month so this would be January police told them that
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they did not find anything suspicious at the scene and a detective allegedly told
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them there was no blunt force trauma I believe also they were told to stop calling the police yeah exactly and this
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again from that same article uh Miss smithfields mother Chantel Fields said that she didn't find out about her
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daughter's death until a day and a half later on the evening of December 13th and police did not notify her about it
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instead Miss Fields said it was her daughter's landlord who put her family in touch with Detective Cronin who
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offered very few details over the phone and even hung up on them in a subsequent
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call uh this is Miss Field's quote here my son I'm presuming that this is the the same son that would have went over
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there that evening to meet with Lauren well in some of the news reports when the family is speaking with reporters uh
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I believe there's two brothers that are been interviewed perfect so she says my son talk talked to him meaning the
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detective detective Cronin and asked him what happened and Cronin said that she met a white guy on Bumble but don't
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worry about that he's a really nice guy end quote detective Cronin said he would
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meet with the mother of the deed and her son at Miss Field's apartment they say that they waited for an hour and a half
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or more than an hour and a half and when they called him you know hey we're here
00:29:27
waiting where are you are you on your way detective Cronin told them to stop calling she later the mother later had
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to beg the police to collect evidence from the scene and that's according to her lawyer this is absolutely
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unacceptable your job is to Serve and Protect and obviously you're not [Music] serving
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on that bar and just go to town let your anger rise all right Captain we have a a
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serious issue here we have a crime scene that I don't believe that was looked at
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to you have a situation where you have a mysterious death and as far as you know
00:32:52
as a detective until it's ruled other you have to deter determine what actually occurred here and as you
00:33:00
pointed out before we went to break you also have a man that is here at This Woman's apartment when you find her body
00:33:08
yes we read how this story and what went down air quotes to Lawrence smithfields
00:33:15
the night before according to the news reports and then we even covered the police report from Bridgeport themselves
00:33:23
of what went down with Lawrence smithfields but we need to remind everybody that
00:33:29
unfortunately a big problem with both the police report and how this story is reported is we don't have Laurence
00:33:39
version of the events from that night we only have this person that we're calling
00:33:43
Matt we only have this Matt guy to tell us what happened the night before and in
00:33:49
the morning when he woke up and he says he finds her unresponsive and believed to be dead at that time when he wakes up
00:33:55
at at 6:30 :30 in the morning yeah if I'm the investigator I'm first wanting to know
00:34:02
is this matte guy telling me the truth okay so like I said where our communication was on Instagram and on
00:34:11
Bumble well let me see that communication is he willing to show me that communication I think it's a red
00:34:17
flag the fact that he moved her from the couch into the bedroom why are you doing that if I just
00:34:24
met somebody a couple days ago and I woke up and they were carrying me to my bed I'd go what are you doing the normal
00:34:33
reaction there would just put a blanket on them if you go lay in their bed and fall asleep that's fine but you didn't
00:34:39
have to move her the other red flag is she's throwing up earlier from drinking and she goes back to drinking now if
00:34:47
that's me I'm going I I don't know you that well and that's not the appropriate reaction to throwing up is let's let's
00:34:57
go back to drinking I'd go hey uh you're not feeling well I need to check myself
00:35:04
out of this situation yes if your date carried you to your bed I would I would have some questions about that as well
00:35:11
big biceps she had big biceps you see the shoulders on that woman but what what we do know is that he also made the
00:35:18
911 call so if I'm in the investigator I want to listen to that 911 call we know
00:35:23
that he was doing chest chest compressions based off of the 9911 operator telling him to do so he then
00:35:31
hangs up the phone when they get there that's normal proper procedure but I'm going to go hey Matt who else knew that
00:35:38
you were here who knew that you were talking to Lauren I want to talk to them I want to check your criminal record if
00:35:47
he has one well I just want to yeah I just want to check to see if there is a record uh what's this guy's background
00:35:54
what's his work history did anybody see you come into the apartment are you willing to come down to the station and
00:36:01
to do a proper interview there are you willing to take a lie detector he claims that there was no sexual intercourse
00:36:10
okay well why why isn't there any test done and the the big red flag is they find and what the reports are saying a
00:36:20
used condom in the trash in a trash can I Believe In Her Bedroom Let's test that
00:36:27
DNA because if he lied to you about that if if that DNA comes back to him well now he's he's fibbing on his story now
00:36:36
the question becomes are you fibbing on your story to just protect yourself or are you some actual criminal well if he
00:36:45
lied about that if he lied about that part of his story then his credibility has gone completely out the window and
00:36:52
you cannot believe any of the rest of his statement now while we sit here and defend Lauren saying unfortunately she's
00:36:59
not here to give her side of the version of events we should also defend our person that we're calling Matt as well
00:37:07
because unfortunately we just don't know if she were here she may tell us yes that's exactly how the Knight went down
00:37:14
and he's perfectly innocent in this whole thing what we need to put the microscope on though is everything you
00:37:21
just said Captain are all the right questions that the detectives should be asking themselves and looking at the
00:37:27
scene and talking to this person that was there he's the only witness according to his story as to how things
00:37:34
went down you need to shake that tree see what falls out and see if you think that this guy is is credible based off
00:37:42
of evidence what we have here is a situation where the detective tells the family uh that you know that guy that we
00:37:48
found in in the apartment at your dead sister's apartment uh yeah he seems like a nice guy don't jump to any conclusions
00:37:56
with him I wouldn't jump to any conclusions with him he seems like a nice guy no no no the statement should
00:38:01
have been look we're looking into every aspect of this we're looking to see if a
00:38:07
crime was committed and if so who committed that crime well right now again let's just assume that Matt had
00:38:14
nothing to do with this he he shows up at a girl's house that he doesn't really know too well she's getting sick she
00:38:22
ends up falling asleep or passing out she stops breathing this is a devastating event cops don't do their
00:38:29
job now this becomes national news world news now your name is in most of the reports and people are saying this is a
00:38:40
suspicious death possibly a murder well you're number one suspect so not only did the cops not Serve and Protect
00:38:48
Lauren and her family but they didn't Serve and Protect Matt unfortunately we know that in many situations anybody
00:38:55
that's watched D line listen to to this show for any long long period of time you know that when we have a case
00:39:01
especially of a a woman who is is murdered often it is the husband or the boyfriend and I'm here to tell you it
00:39:08
sounds to me that if you were a husband or a boyfriend looking to off your your loved one your spouse you should
00:39:16
probably live in Bridgeport and and request detective Cronin show up to the scene because apparently detective
00:39:24
Cronin if you if you seem frantic and panicked and if you said that you did chest compressions and you were the one
00:39:32
that called 911 well he's going to deem you to be a nice guy and not want to jump to any conclusions yeah you know
00:39:38
who else seemed to be a nice guy Ted Bundy you know who else seem to be a nice guy when they're doing their
00:39:44
sermons on Sunday BTK John Wayne gasey was charismatic as hell yeah the medical examiner ruled Lawrence Smith's Field's
00:39:52
death was accidental and caused by acute intoxication due to the combined effects
00:39:57
of fentanyl promethazine hydroxyzine and alcohol and if I mispronounce any of those I want you to
00:40:05
know they have revoked my medical license yes um but he's still studying and doing research on computers now the
00:40:15
family obviously is upset about a number of things but specifically uncollected evidence or stuff that could be possible
00:40:22
evidence if in fact a crime was committed here and their alleges that the family found a used condom as the
00:40:30
captain pointed out a sedative pill and bloodstained sheets and overturned plate
00:40:36
of food and bottles of alcohol so the blood stain sheet I'd like to see this for myself because we do know that the
00:40:43
victim was bleeding through the nostril and if it's just a little bit of blood then that would explain you know to say
00:40:49
blood stain sheet or sheets makes it sound like it was a blood bath and I can't believe that that would be the
00:40:55
scene yeah but but here's the difference if if you tell me oh I found her and her
00:41:01
her nose was bleeding but but that blood stains by her knee right well now we have an issue right and then on top of
00:41:09
that this family look and not all family members know what everybody in their family is doing is it possible that she
00:41:18
used drugs from time to time where she has experimented she might have never experimented until that day
00:41:27
so but when the when the family says look she wasn't a known drug user to us how the hell does she have fit and all
00:41:36
in her system and that's what they don't explain to you that they're not telling
00:41:40
you that how that fit and all got into her system was it ingested orally was it ingested through the nasal was it what
00:41:47
did she shoot up is there track patch yeah is there track marks and then these prescription
00:41:53
pills well let's let's look look through the house and to see or let's contact her doctor and were these prescribed
00:42:02
medicines given to her right by a physician or were these prescription medication that she was getting from
00:42:10
somebody now now again that leads you to evidence if you go well she she had all
00:42:16
these prescription drugs in her system but there was nothing to show that she had a
00:42:23
prescription then you then go back to Matt did he have a prescription for these how did these get into her system
00:42:31
I think is a big how did they get into her system was was she drugged how did these items get into her apartment and
00:42:38
the thing is look let me run a scenario by you that is a possible scenario in the situation you have a family that
00:42:44
says our loved one did not do drugs we we or at least to our knowledge did not do drugs right and we have a man here
00:42:54
who says that consensually he spent the night or was at her apartment at least leading up to her falling asleep and
00:43:01
then wakes up and finds her dead in the morning calls 911 don't worry detective Cronin says he seems like a nice guy but
00:43:09
now we run we run Matt's information into our computers and find out this guy's got a whole bunch of drug charges
00:43:16
right stemming back years now don't you start to go okay well maybe we have a situation here the thing is with these
00:43:24
items that I just mentioned none of these items were collected originally as evidence or even possible evidence or
00:43:31
photographs taken of any of this stuff as well we have one thing that I can point to again I'd like to see the sheet
00:43:38
the bed sheet because it's it's left very vague the description of this bed sheet but that aside we have this
00:43:47
overturned plate of food this might indicate that something else was going on differently that night than what were
00:43:53
being told by the only living person that is in the apartment when we arrive there to try to save this young woman's
00:44:00
life my big issue is test the damn condom because if you test that condom and it goes back to Matt and this guy's
00:44:08
a lying piece of [ __ ] that feels the need that he has to drug somebody in order to have sex with them and and then
00:44:15
also during the autopsy why not run a rape kit I don't know that could have been done that could have been conducted
00:44:21
in all fairness from my understanding I looked for the autopsy report there are several news outlets that state that it
00:44:28
has been sealed and it's not been released to the general public well here's the thing if you're ruling a
00:44:35
accidental overdose then it's case closed and guess who gets to see those Case Files the family but you're not in
00:44:43
communication with the family you're not being respectful for the family so shame
00:44:48
on you oddly enough though Captain this is not the only story that ends up this way coming out
00:44:56
of the same area strangely enough we have Brenda Lee Ross who is found dead the same day and again her family is not
00:45:06
notified of her untimely death as well and this is this is all going on not just in the same City of Bridgeport but
00:45:14
the same neighborhood but we don't believe the same officers were connected to that case no I believe that it was uh
00:45:22
different officers so a little background on this other story is that M Ross worked as a customer service
00:45:29
representative for most of her career her sister describes her as a family person who was extremely funny she loved
00:45:36
to laugh and make jokes uh even in bad times she would make a bad situation into a funny situation now it's unclear
00:45:44
to me and i' I've searched high and low and it it doesn't seem like any new information has come out in regard to
00:45:51
Brenda Lee Ross but it's unclear how she died there was no physical signs of trauma from my understanding or even
00:45:58
Foul Play the medical examiner would be in charge obviously of determining the cause of death on December 14th after
00:46:08
realizing that Miss Ross had stopped responding to their text messages and phone calls her sisters and some other
00:46:15
relatives decided to go to her apartment she wasn't there so they went a few doors down to one of their
00:46:21
friends Apartments there at his apartment he told them that Miss ra died 2 days earlier in his home after he was
00:46:29
unable to wake her up in the morning it's it's Eerie how similar these stories are he calls 911 and her body
00:46:37
was taken away he handed some of her clothing to her family when he's telling them hey she she passed away but again
00:46:46
they were not notified by the police and Miss Ros lived just 2 miles away from Lauren Smith Fields who died on the
00:46:54
morning of December 12th so this is all happening within days of of one another and they're just sad I mean horribly
00:47:02
despicable stories to learn of a loved one the loss of a loved one and then learn that nobody even bothered to tell
00:47:09
you like the the right precautions the right precautions or the the right attempts were all there by the persons
00:47:18
that were with the person when they when they were found deceased calling notifying 911 police on the scene Medics
00:47:26
on the scene yet that's as far as it goes that's as far as it goes in Bridgeport you know some are speculating
00:47:33
that 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
00:47:40
that other officers and other people in the community were trying to warn people
00:47:45
about this is their lack of effort when it comes to a black victim but it's absolutely pathetic police work
00:47:57
and there's a lot of great cops out there and there's a lot of great detectives trying to do the right thing
00:48:03
doing their job serving and protecting and these scumbags give everybody else a bad name but in this case like I said
00:48:12
Lauren is a victim but if if Matt is innocent then he's a victim as well mhm and they should have done their due
00:48:20
diligence to figure out where he stands because look so and you can get more into detail they
00:48:29
suspend both of the officers and they go hey we're going to investigate the investigation and we're going to
00:48:36
reinvestigate the death okay now the at least the department is trying to do the
00:48:40
right thing so kudos to them but now what happens if Matt goes well this is national news now I better get a lawyer
00:48:48
then people are going to speculate that oh well he got a lawyer he lawyered up so now he's guilty which
00:48:55
I me I mean anybody look initial the initial investigation be open with police and if you think that they think
00:49:03
you're suspicious of something get a lawyer to navigate you through the questioning here's the other problem too
00:49:11
but at this point he would have to be an absolute [ __ ] not to lawyer up here's
00:49:16
the other problem too for everybody for everybody is that the detective does not
00:49:23
know [ __ ] at that time right on that day doesn't even bother to notify the family
00:49:30
now we have to sit and wait for the medical examiner to come to a conclusion on cause and manner of death what if
00:49:37
days later the the medical examiner comes back and says rules of a homicide you let all this time go by you didn't
00:49:46
collect evidence you didn't do any type of investigation you didn't take any type of photographs where does your case
00:49:53
sit if it does turn to a homicide it sits it sits as a pile of [ __ ] right in the trash can since these terrible
00:50:02
tragedies Bridgeport mayor Joe ganam says he's working on the situation and issues a public apology we have that
00:50:09
clip here for you now I once again want to express my condolences to the families of Lawrence smithfields and
00:50:16
also the family of Brenda Lee RWS after reviewing these matters even more closely I've now directed deputy
00:50:24
chief baraha of the Bridgeport Police Department to immediately put on leave the two officers who are the subject of
00:50:32
the Bridgeport Internal Affairs investigation and disciplinary action for their lack of sensitivity to the
00:50:38
public and their failure to follow police procedure in the handling of these two
00:50:43
matters let me be cleare effective immediately both detective Lanos detective Cronin are suspended from
00:50:52
duties and put on administrative leave from the bridport police department Department until such time as the oia
00:50:58
investigation and disciplinary cases have been completed regarding Lauren smithfields and Brenda Lee's Brenda Lee
00:51:07
RS cases the Bridgeport Police Department has high standards for officer sensitivity especially in matters
00:51:14
involving the death of a family member it is an unaccepted failure if policies were not followed to the
00:51:23
families friends and all all who care about human decency that that should be shown in these situations in this case
00:51:31
by members of the police department I'm very sorry in addition the officer who was in
00:51:37
charge of always seeing these matters has retired from the Department as of this past
00:51:43
Friday to again make it clear both to members of the public and to the department
00:51:50
insensitivity disrespect in action or deviation from policy will not be tolerated by me or others in
00:51:59
this Administration my disappointment and demand for accountability in these and
00:52:05
all other matters brought to my attention will remain until all the questions are answered to the
00:52:12
satisfaction of all it should also be noted that the untimely death of Lawrence smithfields
00:52:20
and Brenda Lee rolls are both still under active inv investigation and have been re assigned to members of the
00:52:26
bridport police department to resolve I want to thank attorney Crossland and the
00:52:32
family and the thousands of others for reaching out and asking the questions that needed to be asked and that still
00:52:40
need answers I as mayor but also as a father canot fully comprehend what must be going through I can only pledgee my
00:52:51
continued support to try and ease your pain by getting answers and holding those responsible
00:52:58
accountable yeah again like I said it's absolutely pathetic just the lack of of care again you can do an investigation
00:53:08
but you lost precious time and you lost precious resources once you have access to her house once you put her into an
00:53:16
ambulance to have her go to the hospital you now have access to the full crime scene and now they've lost that ability
00:53:25
so again I think there's still going to be question marks later and that doesn't
00:53:29
do service to Lauren that doesn't do service to Matt that doesn't do service to the community or her family and you
00:53:36
have to applaud her mother when something like this happens and and you and you have a
00:53:43
sense that there's something wrong here her family should be applauded for pointing out hey there's something not
00:53:51
right here yes both families Brenda Lee R's family and lawen Smith family smithfields family should be applauded
00:53:58
here because they are not just they're not just trying to solve and create a solution to this problem the problem
00:54:07
that affected their families they are bringing a attention in my opinion to a problem that is Citywide right this is a
00:54:17
huge problem and ongoing problem in the city and I have to I have to read part of this article this was a brilliant AR
00:54:25
article gangbusters work by the good people over buzzfeed.com this article was posted just last Friday the article
00:54:32
is by uh citha Saran Caroline odonovan Stephanie bear and Andrea click and basically the article is about racism
00:54:44
within the police department itself and the article is titled black officers have tried to sound the alarm on the
00:54:51
police department overseeing Lauren Smith Fields case for years BuzzFeed saying that the lawren Smith Fields case
00:55:00
is just the latest in a string of troubling incidents for the department and I agree after reading this article
00:55:07
listen to what they have uncovered BuzzFeed says in recent years complaints from black officers have offered a
00:55:14
window into the Department's internal culture and accusing top leaders of racist conduct back in August of
00:55:22
2018 captain struble a top Aid to police chief with more than two decades at the
00:55:30
agency stepped down after complaints of racist text had surfaced in one text later published in court
00:55:39
documents this officer Captain strable he referred to a local juneth event that he was asked to attend as an
00:55:50
n-word parade in another text he said he asked a black Captain who was running to become police chief
00:55:58
his name is rodri Porter if seeing the film Planet of the Apes made him homick these are from court documents this is
00:56:06
unacceptable he also called African-Americans a cancer in text and said he hoped for a race war well that's
00:56:14
that's really intelligent of you there sir strable himself later argued in a suit in a lawsuit that his comments were
00:56:22
part of a widespread culture in agency perpetuated by the former Chief who he accused of regularly using racial slurs
00:56:32
talking about genocidal fantasies in reference to members of the black race and saying that the former Chief was
00:56:40
even drunk at work okay so before I go back to the article let's just address this this is horrible despicable
00:56:49
Behavior by this this Captain he gets called out on it obviously he's racist as hell and when he gets called out on
00:56:57
it he he's admitting to doing it but says you know I did it because the chief did stuff like that too oh yeah the old
00:57:06
like that's like very second grade of you there sir to go oh yeah of I did it but it was only because these other guys
00:57:13
were doing it too well not only should the black officers be pissed off but the other white officers should should be
00:57:20
equally pissed off if not more pissed off because this is painting your whole department dep as a bunch of racist
00:57:26
clowns well what it appears to me based off of the statements of this Captain who admits to what he has done Captain
00:57:37
[ __ ] it's confirming that yes the higher ups in this department at one time and likely still are behaving this
00:57:47
way are conducting themselves in this type of of manner they should be fired and they should not get a pension and
00:57:54
this is the reason reason why you your your salary your pension your retirement your your health coverage all that stuff
00:58:01
is paid for by the taxpayers that you swore you're going to Serve and Protect and you have not done so you have you
00:58:09
have you have decided which citizens to Serve and Protect and which ones you want I would question if they're serving
00:58:16
any of the citizens at all if they're behaving this way correct um so the the chief that we just talked about this is
00:58:24
uh our o Perez resigned in 2020 and went to prison for obtaining his position through an exam rigging scheme since
00:58:34
then about a dozen black officers have filed internal complaints about lack of training and opportunities for promotion
00:58:41
hostile work environment and retaliation for speaking up and this comes from a Devon polite the president of the
00:58:49
Guardians which is an organization for officers who are people of color so good for them they have some kind of
00:58:57
representation here Devon polite who is half Italian and half black was granted probation in 2018 after facing second
00:59:06
deegree assault charges for allegedly dragging a man from his car and beating him after the man struck his Mercedes
00:59:14
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 look
00:59:22
Devon Polly's probably trying to do some work I don't know that I want a police force where we have guys that are higher
00:59:29
up in the force that have assault charges or assault convictions I don't want racist on my police force either
00:59:36
especially higher up in the police force or in any Organization for that M I don't even care if you're the janitor if
00:59:43
you're racist you're gone one day the janitor is going to run this garage you watch your filthy mouth yeah it's there
00:59:49
there's no place in society for this ignorance and and I don't understand why again I if you're a white officer and
00:59:56
you've set by and let this stuff happen you're just as much of a part of the problem you you saw the burning building
01:00:03
and you didn't call for help you didn't pick up a bucket of water and try to do something it's it's pathetic is what it
01:00:09
is the Department's only black captains have both filed lawsuits against the agency they say their responsibilities
01:00:17
were curtailed after speaking up against leaders now one of them this is rodri Porter was a finalist for Chief in
01:00:25
2018 in lawsuits and complaints with the state he argues that the department passed him over and favor of Perez
01:00:33
because he had opposed strable racist comments he also accused the agency of a racially hostile work environment and
01:00:43
says Perez tried to hide strable racist messages after he learned of them and failed to investigate then in
01:00:52
2019 a spokesperson for mayor gam said he was outraged by the racist remarks of strael but in court filings the city
01:01:03
denied that Perez was aware of the contents of these text messages and said Internal Affairs Affairs did investigate
01:01:12
the matter at the time noting that strable was put on administrative leave the city also denied that Porter was
01:01:19
more qualified for the job of acting Chief saying that Perez qu was a police officer longer and had more experience
01:01:27
in command positions and was well liked in the community end quote now the mayor
01:01:33
denied participating in Perez's scheme for advocating for him to become Chief now I don't I don't question that one
01:01:41
bit but after Perez stepped down pleading guilty and went to prison Porter was the only remaining candidate
01:01:47
for the job of acting Chief from the previous list of finalist but the city chose captain Rebecca Garcia instead
01:01:56
Garcia is the current captain from my understanding here Captain last November a judge found her promotion was also
01:02:03
part of Perez's exam rigging scheme so like most places you know this is this is fairly common from my understanding
01:02:11
in a lot of these law enforcement agencies they use these exams as the primary reason for why one person would
01:02:20
get a promotion over the other however we're seeing in this situation this has been ruled by by a court this is not the
01:02:25
colonel here coming up to his own conclusions it's been ruled by the court that this was there was some illegal
01:02:32
rigging of this exam and of this of this process to put Perez in the position of
01:02:40
police chief and probably promoting others along the way as well so what you're seeing here is this Police
01:02:47
Department is screwed up from top to bottom after 300 community members marched to the mayor's office demanding
01:02:56
action in Lauren Smith Field's case mayor ganam demanded that the department present him with three new finalists for
01:03:05
the police chief job within 150 days I would like to go back to that after we examine the rest of this buzzfeed.com
01:03:13
article in court filings the city said that the Undisputed facts demonstrate that Porter was not subjected to hostile
01:03:21
work environment and that the decision not to select him as the chief of Bridgeport Police Department the acting
01:03:28
Chief or the assistant deputy chief was not based on his race or color a representative for the city this is
01:03:35
Scott applebe said that promotions within the police department are conducted by a civil service exam
01:03:42
process well we need to change that process because it's broken we've already seen how it's screwed up the
01:03:47
department so far the article goes on to say quote regarding any discrimination complaints the City of Bridgeport and
01:03:53
the police Police Department take these matters seriously applebe said in via email the city immediately refers each
01:04:01
complaint to an outside firm that specializes in employment matters for independent investigations end quote
01:04:09
okay so they give when we have these matters that come up when we have complaints that come up we hand this off
01:04:15
to an outside firm that's smart that's smart let's let somebody that doesn't have a dog in the fight examine the
01:04:23
situation and issue a ruling so we can figure out if there was wrongdoing and if so who do we penalize that's great I
01:04:31
applaud that that's smart however according to this article these cases are still open and these are months and
01:04:37
months old maybe it's time to get a new outside firm to look into this situation
01:04:44
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
01:04:49
conclusion as to what happened if there was wrongdoing or not bring me in for a weekend and I'll tell you who's a [ __ ]
01:04:55
bag and who's not according to this article racial discrimination within within the Bridgeport Police Department
01:05:02
is nothing new quote it goes back to the 70s 80s and 90s end quote this is according to Captain Porter uh quote we
01:05:11
were under special Master Federal oversight for a number of years now the Bridgeport Police Department operated
01:05:18
under this Federal oversight from 1983 to 2010 for nearly 30 years the agency's issues with race were so
01:05:27
blatant in the 1980s that 33 black officers all but one patrolled the most dangerous
01:05:36
neighborhoods putting all of the black officers basically on the front line in in the in the danger zone if you will
01:05:43
while the white officers get to patrol the less dangerous neighborhoods yeah or sit behind a desk and do nothing but
01:05:50
tell horrible jokes so a federal judge had a assigned a special Master to ensure equal opportunity with powers to
01:05:58
administer assign and discipline officers which the agency had to pay for but ever since the agreement dissolved
01:06:07
the agency has been in a downward spiral this according to the local NAACP president black officers have been
01:06:16
calling for federal oversite to be reinstated for months and they have been joined by Advocates and City council
01:06:24
members uh one in particular is Maria Pereira again Bridgeport city councilwoman Maria Pereira says quote
01:06:33
Bridgeport Police Department has by far the largest budget in the state of Connecticut and what we get for it is a
01:06:42
police department that is in shambles it's chaos end quote now in all fairness to that
01:06:49
statement all of that statement to me yes it's her opinion but it appears to to be true to me uh this department is
01:06:56
in shambles and if she says that they have the largest budget then I believe it she's the city council woman but in
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all fairness we should point out that Bridgeport is the largest city in Connecticut so they should have the
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largest budget what we have here Captain though is a situation two where the one
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of the later lines in this article really needs to be underlined and echoed until this problem is solved and
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corrected it says this is by one of the officers one of the Bridgeport police officers says quote we need Court
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oversight if we are being mistreated in this department with our own people here
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you can imagine what is going on outside end quote and that's what we're seeing now what is going on outside where we
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have the media responding to the mishandling of the brander Lee raw's case and the Lauren Smith Fields case
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yeah they need to do a second investigation they need to do a second autopsy and they need to be in close
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communication with her friends and family to make sure that they feel comfortable about the investigation and
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that they feel that the investigation is as thorough as they wish well what needs
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to happen in these two cases especially in the Lauren Smith Fields case is uh because we have some more details in
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that case than we do the Brenda Lee Ross case so it's a little clearer to me what
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I believe should happen and I think that what needs to happen here is that an outside investigation needs to take
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place an outside agency needs to come in and conduct a proper and as you said thorough investigation into both of
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these situations and it should include a civil rights probe by the justice department by officials from the justice
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department uh into the Bridgeport Police Department itself I think that it's slightly
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respectful that mayor gam gave and issued an apology to the families uh we do have city council woman Maria Pereira
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who says look both of the families reject the mayor's apology and she says that he should have called them to his
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office and spoke with them in person I agree with that 100% I do want to point out something here I hold
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on that's what's so [ __ ] about people be a human reach out to them call them meet them face to face don't just
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get in front of a camera it's almost like a show like oh well I'm just going to go and I'm going
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to parade around in in front of the camera but why not reach out to them these are humans that lost their their
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daughter that lost their sister like that that shows no class well and I do want to point out something here too I I
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seem to I I think I like this Maria Pereira she seems to be a bit of a whistleblower she's calling things what
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they are and pointing out problems that they have I just hope that she is offering Solutions at some point she is
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a city council woman and I hope that her and the rest of the city council are a part of the solution and start creating
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Solutions rather than just pointing to things and saying hey that's a problem and this is why it's a problem and the
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mayor really look you you got to get your [ __ ] together my friend because here's the problem I understand that
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you're demanding that the department uh send you three candidates for a new police chief within the next 150 days I
01:10:35
believe it says no that's as lazy as what some of your upper staff in the department is doing present me with
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three candidates in the next 150 days no man you need to get in there and you need to get your hands dirty and do some
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damn work and get this straightened out because right now your city is [ __ ] and
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you are the fat filthy pig that is sitting in it that is just sitting in it your department is a disgrace and if you
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have these problems within your Police Department I cannot imagine the problems that you have in your other departments
01:11:10
that you oversee as mayor this needs to become your top priority and look this agency as messed up as as it seems to be
01:11:20
maybe they're not the best ones to be to be presenting candidates to you again I
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also I don't understand why some of this stuff takes so long you could sit down with everybody in the department and and
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speak with each one of them individually you know for just a small period of time
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to to to ask them face to face give me a couple names of who you think should be running these
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departments and you're going to see the same names kind of popping up because these officers the respected officers
01:11:53
and the ones that are 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
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law enforcement officers that wake up every day and they put their life on the line and they try to do the right thing
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and they protect people and they serve their communities no matter what race they are
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and it's just um I I hope that they can do a thorough investigation and and an investigation
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