Charges were dropped on Wednesday morning in the controversial mistaken traffic stop case involving State Treasurer Denise Nappier.
Since the Sept. 1 incident, Hartford police and the state treasurer have presented different versions of what happened last night.
Nappier said she had just dropped off a friend in a state-issued vehicle when she was stopped on Barbour Street.
She said she explained who she was and why she was driving a state vehicle. But the car had a standard license plate, and not the official state plate, which Nappier said she keeps in her trunk. After all that, Nappier said she was given a summons for operating an unregistered vehicle, the car was ordered towed and Nappier was forced to walk home.
Nazario Figuero, vice president of the police union, told the Hartford Courant that officers offered to drive Nappier home after confiscating her vehicle.
The New Haven Register posted police documents online that mention nothing about police offering to drive her home.
The copy of the police report says only that police asked Nappier to call someone to pick her up and that she became irritated and said police were harassing her because she is black.
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Officials from the Department of Motor Vehicles said they failed to properly enter registration information for Nappier's car into a computerized database. Because of that, the police check turned the car back as unregistered.
Hartford's State's Attorney has said there is no basis for the motor vehicle charges and the state chapter of the NAACP said it was monitoring the case.
The charges were dropped on Wednesday morning.
