WARREN Officer's wife files report on cops

The safety-service director says the woman's complaint needs to be checked.
By PEGGY SINKOVICH
VINDICATOR TRUMBULL STAFF
WARREN -- The wife of a city police officer has filed an internal affairs report saying she was treated rudely by other officers.
Paulette J. Edington of Warren, wife of officer Terrance Edington, filed the complaint Nov. 7. It has been assigned to the internal affairs department.
"This matter needs to be looked into," said Fred Harris, safety-service director.
According to the complaint, Mrs. Edington was driving near Commerce Street around 7:30 p.m. Oct. 30.
"As I came to the exit of the Commerce Street apartments, four cruisers were speeding up with their lights and sirens on," Mrs. Edington wrote in the complaint. "I put my car in park at the exit because I thought someone was hurt or that something bad had happened, so I did not want to drive through."
Mrs. Edington said she got out of the car and noticed a canine officer and another officer with a tall young man who was face down on the pavement. The canine officer had his knee on the man's back, Mrs. Edington's complaint states.
"I was surprised because I did not see a major outburst or situation," the complaint states. "I only heard the canine officer and another officer saying, 'Who has the eggs?'"
Around Halloween, police had received calls about juveniles' throwing eggs.
Ordered to leave
The complaint notes that a few minutes later one of the officers asked her what she was looking at, and when she told them she was watching them, they ordered her to move her car.
The officers told her that her car was blocking traffic, the complaint says.
"I was told again that if I did not move my car right now, I would get my car towed, and I said again, 'You don't have to holler at me like that,'" the complaint states.
"At this time an officer came across the street walking very fast. He was hollering, 'You better move your car right now! Can't you hear? Why do we have to tell you people things 15 times?"
She identified the officers involved as Tim Parana, Sean O'Rourke and Sgt. John Yuricek.
The officers could not be reached.
Mrs. Edington said she left the scene a few minutes later.
"I left that scene very hurt, frustrated and threatened by the way the officer talked and showed his out-of-control behavior," Mrs. Edington's complaint states.
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