When then Area 2 Detectives Commander Rodney Blisset told Isaac Lambert that Lambert was losing his job as a detective sergeant and sent to work in patrol, he couldn’t give Lambert a reason for the demotion.
On the stand Tuesday, Blisset recalled a 2019 conversation with city attorneys after Lambert filed his lawsuit, when Blisset was asked several times about Lambert. The lawyers said Blisset’s boss, former CPD Chief of Detectives Melissa Staples, had told them that Blisset had complained about Lambert."I said, ‘The chief is a damn liar,’" Blisset said. "I never had a conversation with the chief about Ike’s performance or anything else," Blisset said, taking a long pause.
Tuesday opened the second week of testimony in Lambert’s case. The veteran detective was supervising detectives the night Sgt. Khalid Muhammad shot Ricardo Hayes in the early morning hours of Aug. 13, 2017, after Muhammad saw the teen, who has autism, running and skipping along a sidewalk in theMuhammad fired from inside his SUV after calling the teen over, telling investigators that he thought Hayes was reaching for a weapon.
Unmentioned in front of the jurors Tuesday was the fact that Blisset, who has since retired, sued the city over his own demotion in 2020, the result, he claims, of his outspoken defense of Lambert. Blisset’s case is set for trial in January.
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