A Connecticut State Police trooper admitted he "messed up" shortly before fellow troopers took him into custody on a DUI charge last week, according to body camera footage and audio released Thursday. It was around 12:50 a.m. on Monday, March 16 when Troop A in Southbury got a 911 call about a state police cruiser parked on the right shoulder of I-84 west in Waterbury. The 911 caller said the vehicle had its hazard lights on and that the driver was either "asleep or unresponsive," according to the 911 recording, released by state police on Thursday. In that cruiser was Trooper Shaquille Williams. Assigned to the patrol division out of Troop I in Bethany, Williams had been with state police for two years. While troopers are allowed to use their assigned vehicles while off duty under the police union contract, state policy prohibits state police from having any amount of alcohol while driving their department vehicle. The troopers can be seen on body camera footage approaching Williams' cruiser, before one of them - identified verbally as a sergeant by the other troopers - knocked on the driver's side window. The troopers have a brief conversation with Williams before the sergeant told Williams that he had to take field sobriety tests "based on everything." Williams was off duty at the time of the incident.
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