Report: No evidence troopers retaliated against protester 

HARTFORD  — A newly released Connecticut State Police report says there is no evidence that three troopers retaliated against a protester at a sobriety checkpoint by filing bogus charges against him. State police released the report Wednesday evening in response to public records laws complaints filed by The Associated Press and the Journal Inquirer newspaper. The investigation centered on the 2015 encounter in West Hartford between protester Michael Picard and the officers. The