Hargrove opened without ceremony.
He explained the purpose of the hearing, the scope of the inquiry, and the evidentiary record under review. His voice was the voice of a man who had run enough proceedings to know that clarity at the beginning saved confusion at the end.
Then Voss began.
She walked the panel through the dash-cam footage first. It played on the chamber's main screen, the same footage the world had seen in fragments, now shown in full, unedited, with the audio timestamps visible in the corner.
The gallery watched in silence.
Clark watched the table in front of him.
His union representative made a note.
Then Voss presented the prior complaints, not as a list, but as a timeline.
Each incident mapped chronologically, each complainant's account summarized, each supervisory closure documented alongside the language used to justify it.
She did not editorialize.
She did not need to.
The pattern assembled itself in the room the way patterns do when the evidence is allowed to speak without interference.
When she reached Marcus Webb's complaint, she noted that Webb was present in the gallery and had submitted a written statement for the record.
When she reached Antoine Cellers, she noted that his attorney's unanswered letter had been entered as Exhibit 14.
Clark's union representative objected twice during Voss's presentation. Both objections were noted and overruled.
Then it was Clark's turn.
He answered questions for 40 minutes.
Hargrove led, methodical and unhurried, working through the timeline of the stop with the patience of someone who already knew the answers and was simply building the record.
Clark's responses were consistent.
He had observed a moving violation. He had conducted a lawful stop. He had acted within department guidelines.
He said "within department guidelines" seven times.
Briggs counted.
At one point, she asked him to explain the absence of a dispatch log for the stop.
Clark said he had intended to log it after completing the citation process.
Briggs asked what citation process, given that no citation had been issued.
Clark said he had exercised discretion.
The gallery did not react audibly, but the quality of its silence changed.
Osai asked the last question.
He was quiet about it, almost tentative, as if he was still finding his footing in the room.
He asked Clark whether, having now reviewed the dash-cam footage and the bystander videos, he believed his conduct during the stop had been appropriate.