A Tennessee police department is under fire by its own top cop after officials raided a home of an innocent family while investigating a 16-year-old boy who had moved months earlier, officials said recently.
Interim Police Chief John Nashville of Metro Nashville said in a press release Wednesday that he was expelling three police officers and instructing the department’s Office of Professional Accountability to conduct a full investigation into Tuesday morning’s search, according to a press release. All three members – a lieutenant, a sergeant and an officer – will remain suspended until the investigation is completed.
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From now on, all applications for search, submitted by an MNPD officer, must be approved by a Deputy Chief of Police, instead of simply by the officer’s supervisor, the release states.
Drake’s orders came just days after police searched the Edgehill home shortly after 6 a.m. Tuesday – and rushed to find another, innocent family who had lived in the apartment for four months, police said.
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“No innocent family in Nashville, anywhere, should be subjected to what the mother and her two children went through on Tuesday morning,” Drake said. ‘They were awakened by a team of officers who knocked on their door and eventually smashed it with a window. It turns out that the mother did not get the right time to get to the door before she was broken into. ”
Drake also said that members of the ‘West Precinct’ department did not ‘exercise due diligence in confirming’ that the teenager in question was still living at home. Upon further investigation, department officials determined the 16-year-old and his mother had moved last summer, police said.
Officer Michael Richardson; Lt Harrison Dooley (MNPD)
But the officers used a database that “had not been updated since November 2018,” the release states.
“There seems to be a lack of confirmation by other means, including surveillance or checking with human resources, that the 16-year-old lived there,” Drake said. “We need to be better than that, and I can absolutely assure you, we will move forward.”
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Of the three members who were kicked, lt Harrison Dooley, a 12-year veteran of the Army, while sgt. Jeff Brown is 21 years old and Officer Michael Richardson is five.
Police provided photos of Dooley and Richardson, but said they could not release a picture of Brown because he was doing undercover work.
