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Incident Oberholzer-Godfrey-Hudson-Young-Denault-Discipline
| Date | Jun 03, 2021 |
| Time | 12:00 PM |
| Report # | Oberholzer-Godfrey-Hudson-Young-Denault-Discipline |
| Department | Charlottesville Police |
| Officers | Scott Godfrey , Robbie Oberholzer |
| Address | Charlottesville, VA |
| Tags | Memorandum Opinion | Charlottesville Police | Robbie Oberholzer | Scott Godfrey | Rashall Brackney-Wheelock | Internal Politics | |
Incident Description
A lawsuit mentions a report of officers engaging in "unlawful, criminal, departmentally inappropriate, misogynistic, harassing, and racist behaviors" that sparked an investigation into Cpl. Robbie Oberholzer, Sgt. Scott Godfrey, Sgt.
Michael Hudson, Cpl. Steve Young, Officer Bethany Denault (Boury) by the police chief, for which she later claimed she faced retaliation.
After the Charlottesville Police Department, Oberholzer went on to work for the Augusta County Sheriff's Office while Godfrey went on to work for the Albemarle Police.
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Brackney-Wheelock v. City of Charlottesville
"Plaintiff alleges that an analysis of a forensic report for the email 'exposed several other suspected unlawful, criminal, and racist behaviors, as well as police violence, corruption, departmentally inappropriate, misogynistic, and/or discriminatory behaviors and harassment and threats within Defendant’s police department.'.... [A] survey emerged “because of Plaintiff’s recent investigation and disciplinary actions against former and current employees namely: Cpl. Robbie Oberholzer, Sgt. Scott Godfrey, Sgt. Michael Hudson, Cpl. Steve Young, Officer Bethany Denault (Boury)." - U.S. Western District Court of Virginia, Judge Norman K. Moon