Category: Bridgeport

2022-07-09@12:06am–#Bridgeport CT– Report of a person shot at Greene Homes building four. No other updates at this time.

2022-07-08 @ 5PMish– A GBT bus driver was pulled from the bus and beaten at the 1300 block of Main Street (between Grand and Frank Street). The driver has been hospitalized. News12’s Frank Recchia will have a report tomorrow.

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2022-07-08@3:49pm–#Bridgeport CT– Firefighters were called to a structure fire in the 1200 block of East Main Street. Firefighters found a fire in the wall and quickly extinguished the fire. Witnesses said there was welding taking place earlier.

Not to worry, even with a “manpower” shortage (shouldn’t that be staffing shortage?), Mayor Ganim will still pull an officer from duty to chauffer him around.

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2022-07-08@10:06pm–#Bridgeport CT– A battery mixed in with the cardboard is thought to have caused a fire at the carboard recycling plant at 1300 Seaview Avenue. Firefighters kept the fire contained to one of the compactors. There were no reported injuries. The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has been called to the scene.

OFFICIAL PRESS STATEMENT

The Bridgeport Guardians Organization Is Against Acting Chief Rebeca Garcia Taking The
Chief Exam Due to Her Illegal Appointment and Controversial Leadership.
The Bridgeport Guardians Organization would like to bring to light the fact that Acting Chief
Rebeca Garcia continues to show a pattern and practice of creating a hostile work environment
and retaliation against Black and White officers by launching frivolous complaints and internal
affairs investigations against Black officers she dislikes while favoring Hispanic officers with
high regards and respect. For example, Acting Chief Rebeca Garcia has handed out minimal to
no discipline against Hispanic officers and, in some cases, have personally removed their
discipline from the process of a mandated Loudermill hearing while unfairly targeting certain
Black officers of this organization, along with White officers, for unfair discipline by utilizing
the office of internal affairs to control the outcome of these illegal investigations, which fall
under the guidance of the Mayor and Board of Police Commissioners.

Under her poor leadership, it has been the worst in decades where Acting Chief Garcia has
created such a racial divide which has manifested into in-group favoritism as compared to the
days of past Bridgeport Guardians discrimination complaints where a federal consent decree
Bridgeport Guardians Inc. v. Delmonte was mandated under the remedy order to reform the
police department for civil rights violations and systemic failures.
As an organization, we fully support Lieutenant John Gale for his continued fight against racial
discrimination and equality for all officers within the Bridgeport Police Department and at the
hands of Acting Chief Rebeca Garcia.

It is for these reasons, the Ganim administration shall refuse to indemnify the unlawful actions
and overt discrimination exhibited continuously by Acting Chief Rebeca Garcia, and until this
occurs, she will continue to cost the city millions of dollars for her unlawful actions and
repugnant treatment against Black and White officers within the Bridgeport Police Department.

#Bridgeport CT– Officers Juan Bayas, Taequan Mitchell, Oscar Soler, Joseph Seagren, Natalie McLaughlin have resigned their positions at Bridgeport Police Department and taking their experience and service to other police departments. This brings the total of police officers down to 288 of a full force of 425.

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2022-07-06@8:40pm–#Bridgeport CT— Firefighters extinguish a rubbish fire at the corner of Barnum and Bishop Avenue.

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2022-07-06@12:15am–#Bridgeport CT– A woman has been pushed out of a moving vehicle in the 200 block of Bond Street and is currently unconscious. First responders on the way.

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2022-07-05@11:44am–#Bridgeport CT– Firefighters were called for an oil spill on Commerce Drive. Witnesses said a pick-up truck was carting a barrel with oil when it turned onto Commerce Drive from Fairfield Avenue when the barrel tipped over. The driver righted the barrel but left the spill behind. The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection was notified of the oil that flowed into the storm drain.