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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.
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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Jervis Middleton (Image: Lexington, KY, Police Department)
A Black Kentucky police officer in the Lexington Police Department was terminated late last week after being accused of supplying information about the police to a Black Lives Matter protester.
According to
The Lexington Herald Leader, after a nine-hour police hearing and more than two hours of deliberations behind closed doors, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council announced its decision to fire police officer Jervis Middleton shortly after 1 a.m. Friday.
Lexington Police Chief Lawrence Weathers and an internal police disciplinary board based the decision to fire Middleton for allegedly violating department policies for providing information to a friend, Sarah Williams, who is a Black Lives Matter protest leader.
Lexington police Officer
Jervis Middleton was relieved of his duties on Friday, following several policy violations which included sharing department information and allegedly lying about it. He had also been demoted recently for using department resources to look up information about a woman he was once romantically involved with, per Fox News.
“Officer Middleton’s conduct during a highly stressful and potentially vulnerable time during the history of our community the most significant policing event in our community in 20 years demonstrates that he should no longer be a police officer,” said
Keith Horn, a lawyer for the city of Lexington.