The Colorado Springs Police Department might launch an internal affairs investigation against a detective who sent City Hall critic Douglas Bruce a disparaging e-mail from work.
Detective Matthew Hulett, who works in the Financial Crimes Unit, admitted Wednesday that he sent Bruce a one-sentence e-mail on Friday asking, “Punch any reporters lately?”
But Hulett, a 10-year veteran, struggled to explain why.
“Yes, it was me, and basically it was just dumb. That’s about the best thing I could tell you,” he said.
The question posed by Hulett in his e-mail may be in reference to a 2008 incident in which Bruce, who was a state representative at the time, kicked a newspaper photographer during a prayer service at the state Capitol. Bruce was censured over the incident.
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