St. Paul Police Chief Todd Axtell announced today that five officers have been released after an incident involving officers responding to an assault and not intervening. Axtell calls it “a disappointing day for our department, personally and professionally, because I care so much about this great city.” Axtell says “our job now as a police department and my ongoing pledge to you our community is to move forward from this ugly day in our department’s history and once again get back to making deposits into a fully funded bank of trust.” Axtell says he learned about the incident last summer.