TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Nov 16, 2020

Metro Nashville Police Sergeant Michelle Hammond-Beville has filed a federal lawsuit against several high-ranking members of the police department, WPLN reports. Hammond-Beville says leaders in the Office of Professional Accountability violated her civil rights and punished her unnecessarily causing “emotional damage, career damage and financial losses.” Hammond-Beville was decommissioned in 2018 after a family member accused her of child abuse. She claims the department violated protocol by delaying her reinstatement for more than a year after she was cleared of the allegations.