Another officer, Bryson Bell, was suspended in January for 15 days for performing a full body strip search during a traffic stop in July 2024.
Donnie Stoner was charged in July 2023 with multiple counts of sex abuse, rape and sodomy. He has pleaded not guilty.
Last month, the harassment charge was dismissed as part of an agreement in which John Perkins accepted a diversion program, meaning he had to comply with orders from Family Court, complete a domestic violence intervention program, only carry a weapon for work and stay out of trouble.
Three employees at the Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex were fired and one suspended for 30 days last June for tasing inmates or preventing officers from using tasers on inmates who failed a drug test while in custody.
It took more than three months before Officer Terry Henderson was charged in January with official misconduct and drunk driving – his third DUI charge since 2019.
Police said all three students are charged with terroristic threatening.
4 LMPD officers suspended for failing to report colleagues convicted for throwing drinks at citizens
The chief has recommended another officer involved be terminated, but the decision is under appeal and the department has not released any other information.
The lawsuit claims LMPD dragged its feet, not even bothering to question the officer for several weeks, in essence unofficially punishing him by “deliberately extending his suspension period.”
The University of Louisville has suspended head basketball coach Chris Mack for six games to start the 2021-2022 season, the university announced today.
The city paid Joseph Bennett $35,000 earlier this year to settle a lawsuit filed in December claiming Officer Manuel Cruz "aggressively confronted" and then "sucker punched" him.