A woman has filed a brutality lawsuit against the local police, saying that an officer broke her arm after stopping her car and arresting her on a highway ramp in 2007.
The lawsuit was filed Wednesday at U.S. District Court in New Haven on behalf of Elba Caban, her lawyer, David Rosen, said Thursday. It was assigned to Judge Warren W. Eginton in Bridgeport. The suit asks for an unspecified amount of compensatory and punitive damages and other costs.
Police have no comment on the incident, said Officer Hugo Benettieri, a department spokesman. Details about Caban's arrest were not available because the charges against her eventually were dismissed.
According to a press release written for Rosen by a public relations firm, the clash occurred on Nov. 29, 2007, after Caban left her Sisson Street apartment "to remove herself from a domestic dispute with her brothers."
One of her brothers had called police, the release says, providing a description of his sister as being 4 feet 10 and 110 pounds.
Police stopped the car she was in on an I-84 on-ramp and removed her, the release says. Officers Christopher Vasseur and Darrell Drouin began to "interrogate" her, it says, asking questions about her education and marital status.
Officer John Dupont arrived and charged Caban with disorderly conduct, the release says. When Caban responded that she should not be charged with a crime, "Dupont became enraged," it says, grabbing her and wrenching her arm behind her back.
When she cried out in pain, the release says, "Dupont told her to 'shut up' and snapped her humerus in two."
Before she was taken from the scene in an ambulance, police charged her with assault on a police officer and "for behaving as a negligent pedestrian," the release says.
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