Sergeant Stowers appears in reporting as part of the department’s response/apology call concerning the Kitchen traffic stop. The issue is supervisory knowledge: whether AFPD documented and disclosed the incident as impeachment material in cases involving Detective Kitchen or related traffic-stop practices.
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