Rolling Meadows police Sgt. Carlos Saez is detained April 23 after a road-rage altercation in Elgin that left him facing felony charges. Courtesy of Elgin Police Department

Minutes after the road-rage altercation that left him behind bars and on unpaid leave, Rolling Meadows police Sgt. Carlos Saez told investigating officers he was defending himself from a “gang member” trying to disarm him.

“He was overpowering me, and I was in fear for my life,” Saez said.

Some eyewitness reports and surveillance video that captured the brawl in the middle of a busy Elgin road paint a different picture, one of two men engaging in a fistfight … until one used a gun.

That’s what we found combing through 119 pages of police reports, along with multiple videos, Daily Herald colleague Christopher Placek

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