Two months after a state trooper was captured on camera in a profanity-laced tirade during a traffic stop, a commemorative coin that honors him is circulating among his fellow troopers.
Trooper Matthew Spina, a 19-year veteran of the state police, was seen in video captured by the driver screaming profanities and commands as he orders the man out of the vehicle on the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge in New Haven in May.
“We’ve been made aware of a profane challenge coin that has the image of Connecticut State Police badge,” Brian Foley, an aide to Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection Commissioner James Rovella, said.