1.   A federal trooper would still have to train the horse to be ridden in battle.

2.   During those assessments, troopers have to pretend they are sergeants and explain how they would make the type of decisions made by sergeants.

3.   Jostling for a better angle Tuesday morning, TV cameramen got into a collar-grabbing brawl that Connecticut State Police troopers had to break up.

4.   Racial profiling is a contentious issue in New Jersey, where state troopers have a history of stopping drivers based on the color of their skin.

5.   The state police superintendent, Col. Carson Dunbar, also testified Tuesday and pointed out that the minority troopers had all filed lawsuits against the agency.

6.   Troopers had to break into the locked car to get to the children, both of whom had been shot in the chest at close range.

7.   Troopers have a policy of conducting routine searches of all prisoners.