From [HERE] and [HERE] A Black family of five has filed a complaint with the city's Office of Internal Affairs after a brawl with police that resulted in the 52-year-old father getting shot with a stun gun and police kicking down doors to arrest the entire family. Police Chief Joseph Gaudett (white man in photo) said he sees no need to place Oficer Rivera, Carrano or Sgt. Sean Lynch, who fired the stun gun, on administrative duty for the following conduct: 

The incident began after brothers Dennis and Eric Jennings went outside in the frigid temperatures for a cigarette break at their parents' Pleasant Street home Jan. 23. As they stood in front of their house, Police Officers David Rivera and John Carrano drove by and told them to stop hanging out. Horace Jennings, the father, said the officers only stopped and approached the men because they were black males standing in a Black neighborhood. But police said they pulled over to tell the Jennings to move along and stop "blocking free passage on the sidewalk" in front of the gate of the house. 

In their account of the fracas, the family claims Rivera and Carrano were hostile from the moment they approached Bernard, 29, Dennis, 27, and Eric, 23, and ordered them off the sidewalk. "We weren't causing any problems," Bernard Jennings said. "We didn't commit any crime."

But in his report, Rivera said Dennis Jennings cursed at the officers when they asked them to move. The officers grabbed Dennis, who was already inside the gated property by that point (complying with the officer's request), when he moved toward the home and refused to approach them when asked, police said.

This prompted the family members to come out of the house cursing and yelling, and the officers to call for backup, police said. Then, as Rivera apprehended Dennis, Eric Jennings ran inside to get his parents.

At that point, Horace Jennings was shot at close range in the back by Sgt. Sean Lynch with a stun gun after police said he grabbed Rivera's shoulder and reached for the electric gun in the officer's holster.

Horace, who works for the state Department of Motor Vehicles, said he didn't see the police report until Thursday afternoon; he said he was outraged he was accused of grabbing a police officer. He said the lies in the report are the reason Blacks and Latinos in Bridgeport don't talk to police.

"The same ones supposed to be protecting you are no good," he said. "When it comes to white people, it's protect and serve. But when it comes to blacks and Hispanics, it's track and hunt."

Eric Jennings said when he saw his father lying on the ground, he called 911. "Bernard said to me, `Why are you calling the police? They're the ones out there,' " he said. "And I said, `Yeah we need a new batch.' "

Police said they arrested Margaret Jennings -- the mother -- for taking items out of her husband's pockets despite police protests. She said she was searching for her husband's keys because by then there were dozens of officers at the scene and they were threatening to break down her front door.

She claimed she was arrested for looking defiantly at Rivera when the officer who had used the stun gun on her husband asked his fellow officer, "He tried to grab you, right?"

"The officer couldn't lie because I was looking him right in the face," she said. "Next thing I knew, I was handcuffed, going to a police car and thinking, `Is this really happening to me?' " She is now worried the arrest will give the city a reason to fire her after 17 years on the payroll with the Bridgeport Board of Education. "I've never hurt anybody," she said. "I don't want my life destroyed by lies."