In what a defense attorney called a “sad day” for the court system, the state has decided to proceed with a case against a woman arrested for “interfering” with a cop who had a cellphone camera removed from her bra after she refused to hand it over to him.
Police charged the woman, Jennifer Gondola of Ansonia, on the Temple Street courtyard shortly before 2 a.m. on June 4 as she and others in a crowd watched and recorded cops arresting an unruly man leaving a bar.
Her arrest is the subject of an ongoing police internal investigation into whether the officer in charge, Sgt. Chris Rubino, violated department policy on the rights of citizens to photograph police and whether he used unreasonable force against the detained man. Rubino told the Independent he did nothing wrong; he said he was acting to preserve crucial evidence in a criminal case, the video footage Gondola recorded. (Click on the play arrow to watch the video.)
