{"id":5084471,"date":"2019-05-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctlatinonews.com\/police-officer-who-testified-on-harassment-assault-of-latinos-dies-of-brain-cancer\/"},"modified":"2019-05-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T04:00:00","slug":"police-officer-who-testified-on-harassment-assault-of-latinos-dies-of-brain-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/2019\/05\/20\/police-officer-who-testified-on-harassment-assault-of-latinos-dies-of-brain-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer who testified on harassment, assault of Latinos dies of brain cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former East Haven police officer Vincent Ferrara whose testimony on the harassment and assault of Latinos helped send four police officers to prison died this month, according to ctpost.com. He was 54.<\/p>\n\n\n

He died on May 11, 17 months after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n

In 2010, he helped the U.S. Department of Justice gather\nevidence of the systemic, department-wide pattern of abuse and corruption,\naccording to ctpost.com.<\/p>\n\n\n

He later filed an active federal civil rights case against the town, including East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr., which charged that he was the victim of retribution from fellow officers and town officials.<\/p>\n\n\n

Ferrara said he was shunned, called a rat and veterans of\nthe scandal told younger officers to stay away from him. His lawsuit also\nalleges that fellow officers, who were called to back him up in potentially\ndangerous street encounters either were slow to respond or simply failed to arrive.<\/p>\n\n\n

In January, Ferrara was fired for alleged misuse of his\nagency computer.<\/p>\n\n\n

Ferrara\u2019s attorney, James Brewer told ctpost.com that the\nlawsuit will continue.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cHe stuck his neck out,\u201d Brewer said. \u201cIt took a lot of\nmoral courage to stand up to people he knew were a physical and emotional\nthreat to him. I think he made a decision to not stand by and watch the abuses.\nHe was an honest cop. Some of these other folks should probably look in the\nmirror and ask what it takes to be a law enforcement officer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

In 2017, around the same time, Ferrara was suspended over the issues that led to his eventual firing, a series of headaches led to doctors diagnosing him with the same type of brain tumor that U.S. Sen. John McCain died from.<\/p>\n\n\n

Ferrara was on paid administrative leave for most of 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n

Brewer said that procedurally, Ferrara\u2019s estate becomes the plaintiff\nin U.S. District Court in New Haven.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t change anything,\u201d Brewer said. \u201cVince was adamant that we go to the conclusion. We have no doubt we\u2019ll win the case on the testimony of the defendants. Vince was a great guy, and he was treated like dirt by these people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

Source: <\/em>CTPost.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cHe stuck his neck out…It took a lot of moral courage to stand up to people he knew were a physical and emotional threat to him.”
\nJames Brewer, Ferrara’s attorney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[589,590],"tags":[1472],"ppma_author":[565],"class_list":["post-5084471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-law-order","tag-east-haven-policevincent-ferrara"],"acf":[],"mb":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Jermaine Smith","author_link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/author\/jay\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"\u201cHe stuck his neck out...It took a lot of moral courage to stand up to people he knew were a physical and emotional threat to him.\" James Brewer, Ferrara's attorney","authors":[{"term_id":565,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"news-editor","display_name":"News Editor","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"mfb_rest_fields":["title","uagb_featured_image_src","uagb_author_info","uagb_comment_info","uagb_excerpt","authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5084471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5084471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5084471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5084471"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=5084471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}