A judge threw out an “interfering” charge against an Ansonia woman arrested for refusing to hand over her cellphone to a sergeant she recorded stomping an out-of-control club-goer — setting the stage for a possible lawsuit against the city.
Judge Maureen Keegan took the action Thursday in state Superior Court on Elm Street.
She dismissed the interfering charge against Jennifer Gondola, the 36-year-old Ansonia woman who encountered Sgt. Chris Rubino in the Temple Street courtyard outside the Pulse nightclub in the early hours of June 2.
The case sparked an internal police investigation and a possible rethinking of the police department’s policy on the rights of citizens recording the actions of cops.
