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Following a lengthy debate, the city's Urban County Council agreed with a police disciplinary board that Jervis Middleton should be dismissed. The unanimous vote found Middleton guilty on two charges — sharing internal police information and overall misconduct.
City attorney Kevin Horn argued that, by passing along tips about police actions and names to demonstration leader Sarah Williams, Middleton was seeking not to de-escalate the situation but "inflame things." Middleton lawyer Keith Sparks described the harm caused by Middleton's actions as "imagined and created out of whole cloth to justify this fundamentally unfair result, which is to fire an officer who spoke out about racism."