BANGOR, Maine (AP) A Maine lawmaker rejected findings from the Maine State Police that it had not meant a top award given to a trooper accused of racial profiling in traffic stops as a rebuke to the Black Lives Matter movement.
The Bangor Daily News reported Thursday Maine Rep. Jeffrey Evangelos demanded that the state’s Department of Public Safety conduct a “credible investigation” into how Trooper John Darcy was given the 2019 Trooper of the Year despite allegations that he racially profiled a man in a traffic stop.
Public Safety Commissioner Michael Sauschuck had told Evangelos that a review found the allegations against Darcy “were not substantiated” in connection with the Trooper of the Year award.
