Crime & Safety
Fired Danbury Police Officer Found Not Guilty on Assault, Threatening Charges
The police officer was arrested after a traffic stop in March of 2013 and was fired months later.
A Superior Court jury ruled Thursday that former Danbury police officer Christopher Belair was not guilty of charges that he verbally berated and threatened to beat up an undocumented immigrant during a March 2013 traffic stop, the Danbury News Times reports.
Belair, who was an officer at the time of the incident, was charged in January 2014 with third-degree assault and second-degree threatening.
The officer was fired by Mayor Mark Boughton in June 2013 after a disciplinary hearing, the paper reports.
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On a cellphone recording, Belair allegedly told the victim that if there weren’t other cops present he’d beat the “(expletive) out of you.”
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