Incidents

Robert Jablonski, age 50, was shot by Fairfax County Police. He survived.

A male Hampton Police officer shot a 31-year-old unarmed Black man.

(The victim did not initiate their encounter nor attempt to escalate prior to being shot by the police. In a statement released by police, the officer said he shot the man in "defense" of a female Sergeant present. According to her and the male officer, she had just been "hit" in the head with a baseball bat that the man had been holding while she initiated and pursued an "encounter" with him, which the male officer witnessed; the details of which are not publicly known.)

The male officer fired five shots at the 31-year-old Black man, who was hit by three of the bullets. He was taken to the hospital. He survived.

On its website. Hampton Police issued a one-paragraph statement with the police account of the shooting. The officer who committed the shooting was not named.

A 2022 lawsuit was filed alleging unnamed VCU Police officers assaulted and pepper sprayed a man while he stood outside the hospital waiting for his ride.

Longtime VCU Police officer Polly F. Griffin was arrested, charged, indicted, and subsequently decertified as a police officer after assaulting an individual while on duty and in uniform. Griffin appealed her decertification status to the CJSB Executive Committee; her certification was reinstated on November 17, 2022 without the public taking much notice.

Lieutenant Tiffany Bratton-White was arrested for embezzlement. She was terminated 'for cause'.

"Mr. Brothers was terminated from the Sheriff’s Office after an incident on April 3, 2021, in which Mrs. Gail Frenzley made a 911 call requesting assistance with her adult son, Justin, who was having a mental health crisis... Chief Williams indicated to Mr. Brothers that his eligibility as a law enforcement officer had been reinstated."

Sgt. William Kelly of Norfolk Police Internal Affairs gained attention in the press after leaked data revealed he contributed to a fundraiser for far-right figure and murderer Kyle Rittenhouse in Wisconsin, using his official Norfolk Police email address.

Officer Kyle Albert shot 30-year-old Jiyoung Lee.

While conducting a traffic stop, Norfolk Police officer Vincent Tocco dragged a woman named Ebony Moss out of her car and punched her in the face.

Senator Louise Lucas files a $6.75 million lawsuit against Sergeant Kevin McGee and Chief Angela Greene after controversy when McGee slaps her with "injury to monument" charges under an antiquated law and assaulted, then arrested her during the George Floyd Uprising on June 10, 2020. After the event, McGee drafted a heated email about events that he sent to the department.

Mawyer was named in a complaint for "excessive force, wrongful arrest, and damage to person or property." An Internal Affairs investigation (Case # 202106160002) overseen by Sergeant Lemons was launched on June 16, 2021. By June 28, the police had completed their investigation of themselve. They ruled the complaint unfounded.

Mawyer had another complaint filed against him the previous year.

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.

According to court filings, a person was wrongfully handcuffed to a bed then assaulted by Carilion Clinic Police in Roanoke (Officers D. B. Moore and William Hodges were named).

According to a Notice of Eligibility for Decertification form submitted on behalf of Mr. Paul L. Brothers IV )obtained by FOIA request by OpenOversightVA.org), Deputy Brothers was fired from the Westmoreland County Sheriff's Office on May 20, 2021.

The document can be found on page 22 of Brothers' DCJS case cinder.

Isaiah Brown, unarmed, was shot over eight times by Spotsylvania County Sheriff's Office deputy David Turbyfill.

Officer Solomon Simmons shot and killed Donovan Lynch at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront. The ensuing court case was controversial, with an investigation revealing the officer's bodycamera had been off and that Lynch's body had been moved.

A civil lawsuit accuses Officers Michael Johnson Jr., Jonathan Farrar and Zachary Miller of excessive force. Police shot Steve Rucker Jr. with a stun gun while he was on a horse, and then hit him with a police car, the lawsuit alleges.

On March 8, 2021, Lamonta Gladney field a civil rights lawsuit against Tyler Timberlake and Kyle M. Schaefer.

As Gladney's lawyer alleged, he "suffered serious physical injury caused by Timberlake’s unlawful taser attack. Additionally, Gladney suffered and continues to suffer mental anguish, humiliation, and psychological pain...

The Defendant’s misconduct, done under the color of state law, as described below, was recklessly and deliberately indifferent to the life, safety, bodily integrity, well-being, liberty, and civil rights of Lamonta Gladney.”

Gladney presented three claims for relief. The first claim alleged deprivation of civil rights and violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments; the second with police brutality and excessive force; and the third with false arrest.

The case concluded in June 2022. Officer Timberlake and Fairfax County admitted no wrongdoing, but they agreed to pay Gladney a $150,000 settlement.

Chesterfield Police shot Bruce W. Terry, 50, in his home