Mini-Post: Mouthing Off

Two Republicans are going at it here in Connecticut and it is being investigated as a bias crime.

Alleged ‘hate incident’ between two CT political figures caught on video. Police are investigating.

Hartford Courant

By Livi Stanford

August 30, 2025

The Waterbury Police Department is conducting an investigation involving two political figures after an incident that was captured on video.

The video reportedly shows former state Rep. Victor Cuevas confronting and making homophobic comments to Efrain Torres, a Republican Board of Aldermen candidate.

“We are investigating the report of a disturbance that occurred on Grant Street on Friday and both of those parties are involved in that investigation,” said Waterbury Police Chief Fernando Spagnolo.

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Noujaim claims that Cuevas “acted irrationally, provoking and stalking my candidate using homophobic slurs.” He also called it a hate crime and said that it should not have taken place.

So welcome to Republican politics!

The Democratic candidate said...

“What we have seen over the last two plus years from leadership of the Republican Party is a focus on insults over ideas and this certainly seems to be a symptom of that and our choice this fall will not just be on policy, but how we want to treat each other in Waterbury,” he said. “To build our city up we don’t have to tear each other down.”