{"id":46129,"date":"2020-02-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/duplicate-3504444.findlaw4.flsitebuilder.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/tennessee-police-chief-fired-day-after-domestic-violence-charge-filed\/"},"modified":"2020-03-17T23:34:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T04:34:46","slug":"tennessee-police-chief-fired-day-after-domestic-violence-charge-filed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/blog\/2020\/02\/tennessee-police-chief-fired-day-after-domestic-violence-charge-filed\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee police chief fired day after domestic violence charge filed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you drive northeast of Chattanooga for about an hour, you will find yourself in Etowah. The McMinn County town of about 3.500 residents has a small police force that is now without its chief. According to news reports, the Etowah chief of police was fired after he was <a href=\"\/criminal-defense\/domestic-assault\/\">charged with assault by domestic violence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies responded to a call from a woman before 6 a.m. this past Sunday. Officers said she had a facial injury reportedly caused by now-former police chief Eric Armstrong, with whom she&rsquo;s in a relationship.<\/p>\n<p>However, Armstrong was not there when deputies arrived and the woman refused medical attention. She was instead taken to a family member&rsquo;s home.<\/p>\n<p>The McMinn County sheriff said deputies &ldquo;checked several locations but were unsuccessful in locating&rdquo; Armstrong and that they hoped to speak to him. &ldquo;It is difficult to deal with a domestic situation involving a law enforcement officer, especially someone you have worked your whole career with, but the incident must be investigated as any other domestic incident.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Etowah&rsquo;s city manager announced that Armstrong had been fired and that an interim chief of police was in place. The manager added that Etowah&rsquo;s police department will not take part in the investigation of the allegations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjhl.com\/news\/regional\/tennessee\/etowah-tenn-police-chief-fired-at-large-facing-assault-charge-after-domestic-incident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This case<\/a> is a dramatic example of what can happen to a person&rsquo;s career when they are charged with domestic violence. Many will undoubtedly wonder if Etowah acted too quickly, before Armstrong has even had a chance to address the charges.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that he faces an accusation at this point and has not been convicted of anything.<\/p>\n<p>Those facing similarly serious allegations should decline to speak to a prosecutor until they have talked over their options with a Chattanooga criminal defense attorney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you drive northeast of Chattanooga for about an hour, you will find yourself in Etowah. The McMinn County town of about 3.500 residents has a small police force that is now without its chief. According to news reports, the Etowah chief of police was fired after he was charged with assault by domestic violence. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-violence"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}