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Sept. 6, 2020 protest calling for justice after Breonna Taylor was shot and killed by police in Kentucky. Photo: MGN Online
Black police Officer Jervis Middleton was terminated from the Lexington, Ky., police force after a three-hour hearing, accused by officials of giving “sensitive” department information to a Lexington activist during last summer’s protests.
The Lexington City Council also announced it will review questions coming out of the Feb. 18 hearing about how the police department investigates racial discrimination in its ranks.
None of the information Mr. Middletown was accused of disclosing led to any harm to any officer, nor did it jeopardize any police operations.
Credit Lexington Police Department
Both the Lexington Police Department and the city s Urban-County Council agreed in February that Middleton should be dismissed over the contacts. But the NAACP argues the department set up the officer to justify his firing.
In a statement, the group says for years the LPD permitted racist taunts against the officer, leading to a hostile and unconstitutional work environment. The statement acknowledges Middleton violated agency policy, but says he did so because he was unable to disregard his identity as a black man in a workplace the group describes as akin to the good ole boys-all white fraternity culture.
Jervis Middleton has been fired for allegedly leaking information to a Black Lives Matter protester.
According to Kentucky.com. Middleton was accused of overall misconduct, sharing internal police information and being dishonest about his communication with Black Lives Matter protest leader
Sarah Williams. With an unanimous vote, he was found guilty of the first two administrative charges but not guilty of the third charge.
ACLU of Kentucky Executive Director
Michael Aldridge said in a statement, “The ACLU of Kentucky is concerned (the) Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council fired Officer Jervis Middleton amidst long standing calls for a radical transformation of policing and transparent relationships with the public.”
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