4 Danbury police officers have been disciplined following an internal investigation

DANBURY, CT — The Danbury Police Department has disciplined four officers following an internal investigation into their confrontation with a Long Island man at the public library.

Officer Ken Utter was suspended without pay for eight days and will undergo remedial training, the News-Times reported. Officer Paul Tibbitts was suspended for three days without pay and was required to take remedial training, Officer Christopher Dennis was required to take counseling and remedial training, and Sgt. John Dickinson received a written reprimand and was ordered to undergo training on how to operate his body camera.

The police were called in by a Danbury Public Library security guard to confront "First Amendment auditor" SeanPaul Reyes, of Bellport, New York, recording video inside the library.

The police requested the YouTuber cease recording and leave the library, and Reyes refused. The responding officers contacted Dickinson, who eventually convinced the YouTuber to leave.

A review of the bodycam footage showed that at one point, Utter said to another officer that Reyes would have been "dead" 20 years ago, and "his teeth would be missing," according to the News-Times.

"While I understand that you were clearly frustrated after a tense encounter comments such as these are never acceptable under any circumstances," Chief Patrick Ridenhour wrote to the officer. "They cause embarrassment to our department and can easily hamper our efforts to build and maintain positive relationships with our community."

For more, see the News-Times.