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Tennessee Cop Files Lawsuit Fighting Sex Scandal That Got Her Fired: ‘I Was Sexually Groomed’ By Bosses

<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;&quest;s&equals;tennessee&amp&semi;post&lowbar;type&equals;post&amp&semi;&lowbar;gl&equals;1&ast;vtpod8&ast;&lowbar;up&ast;MQ&period;&period;&ast;&lowbar;ga&ast;MTY4ODEyMTEwMy4xNjc3Nzk2ODUy&ast;&lowbar;ga&lowbar;V2HX8YP3XL&ast;MTY3Nzg1MzQyNi4yLjEuMTY3Nzg1MzQzNC4wLjAuMA&period;&period;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>Tennessee<&sol;strong><&sol;a> police officer <strong>Maegan Hall<&sol;strong> is claiming she is a victim of the alleged sexual misconduct that got her fired&period; Hall has broken her silence after news broke of a sex scandal involving multiple fellow cops within her department and says she was &&num;8220&semi;sexually groomed&&num;8221&semi; by her superiors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking publicly for the first time&comma; Maegan Hall told <strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;newschannel5&period;com&sol;news&sol;exclusive-former-officer-at-center-of-la-vergne-pd-sex-scandal-speaks-out" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">WTVF<&sol;a> <&sol;strong>that she repeatedly attempted to thwart the sexual advances of Sgt&period; Lewis Powell at the La Vergne Police Department&comma; but added &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;he wouldn’t take no for an answer&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Hall Says She &&num;8220&semi;Gave In From The Pressure&&num;8221&semi; After Being &&num;8220&semi;Sexually Groomed&&num;8221&semi; By Fellow Male Officers<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Hall &&num;8211&semi; who is married &&num;8211&semi; said the affair with Sgt&period; Powell eventually led to sexual relationships with five other cop after she &&num;8220&semi;gave in from the pressure&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I know what most people are saying&comma;” Hall told the outlet&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You know&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;You could’ve said no&period;’ I get it&period; But my response to them is &OpenCurlyQuote;I did say no&comma; and he wouldn’t take it for an answer&period;’ Eventually&comma; I gave in from pressure&period;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>On Monday&comma; Hall filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the department and several members of its top brass&comma; with Hall claiming she was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;sexually groomed&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1630373891804725249" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Disgraced Cop Blamed Workplace Trysts On Troubled Marriage&comma; Accuses Department Of &&num;8220&semi;Not Protecting Me&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The 26-year-old blamed the workplace trysts on her troubled marriage&comma; and added that she was specifically targeted by the department&&num;8217&semi;s second shift of which she worked&comma; which was otherwise an all-male unit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She said that the department &&num;8220&semi;described the environment as a family&&num;8221&semi; when she was interviewing for the job&comma; but that when it came down to it&comma; they were &&num;8220&semi;not protecting me&comma;&&num;8221&semi; the outlet reports&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;When I was interviewing for the position at La Vergne Police Department&comma; they described the environment as a family&comma;” she told the outlet&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;However&comma; while I was aspiring to protect my community&comma; the La Vergne Police Department was not protecting me&period;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Hall and four other officers have since been fired&comma; including Police Chief Burrel &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Chip” Davis who is accused of contributing to the sexual harassment&comma; while two others were suspended over the raunchy sex scandal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1630760848653262848" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h5 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">RELATED&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;tennessee-female-cop-at-the-center-of-police-department-sex-scandal-offered-10k-to-strip-down-at-strip-club&sol;&quest;&lowbar;gl&equals;1&ast;1tq65tn&ast;&lowbar;up&ast;MQ&period;&period;&ast;&lowbar;ga&ast;MTY4ODEyMTEwMy4xNjc3Nzk2ODUy&ast;&lowbar;ga&lowbar;V2HX8YP3XL&ast;MTY3Nzg1MzQyNi4yLjAuMTY3Nzg1MzQyNi4wLjAuMA&period;&period;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Tennessee Female Cop At The Center Of Police Department Sex Scandal Offered &dollar;10K To Strip Down At Strip Club<&sol;a><&sol;h5>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Hall Says Supervisors Worked Together &&num;8220&semi;To Take Advantage Of Her Vulnerabilities And Mental Health&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Hall went on to accuse her supervisors of working together to &&num;8220&semi;take advantage of my vulnerabilities and mental health&&num;8221&semi; issues to elicit sexual favors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;My supervisors worked together to take advantage of my vulnerabilities and my mental health&comma;” Hall said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;And they used it for their gain and sexual favor&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>She added that she had no recourse in protecting herself &&num;8220&semi;when the chief of police is sexually harassing you&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Who do you even turn to when the chief of police is sexually harassing you&quest; How could I get justice when the entire system&comma; including the chief&comma; not only condoned such behavior but participated in it&quest;” she said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I was lost and I felt alone&period;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Hall said that before the scandal went public&comma; she &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;received harassing and threatening messages on my phone daily&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1631315663842148352" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I felt like I was terrorized&comma;” she said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I had no one to run to and I had nowhere to go&comma;” she said&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Hall&&num;8217&semi;s Attorney Claims &&num;8220&semi;She Was&&num;8230&semi; A Piece Of Meat To Be Sexualized And Exploited&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; a spokesperson for the city of La Vergne told the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nypost&period;com&sol;2023&sol;03&sol;02&sol;tennessee-sex-cop-maegan-hall-breaks-her-silence-i-did-say-no&sol;&quest;utm&lowbar;campaign&equals;SocialFlow&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;source&equals;NYPTwitter&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;medium&equals;SocialFlow" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>New York Post<&sol;strong><&sol;a> that they do not discuss pending litigation and declined to comment on Hall&&num;8217&semi;s lawsuit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Maegan wasn’t looked at like a rookie cop to be trained and promoted&comma;” Hall’s lawyer&comma; Wesley Clark&comma; told WTVF&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;She was looked at like a piece of meat to be sexualized and exploited&period;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>This is a developing story&period; Be sure to check in with <em><strong>The Shade Room<&sol;strong><&sol;em> for more updates as they come&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; center&semi;&semi;"> <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-container" data-ver&equals;"1&period;3&period;10" data-post&lowbar;id&equals;"114145" data-show&lowbar;count&equals;"true" data-enable&lowbar;share&equals;"onclick" data-behavior&equals;"regular" data-animation&equals;"true" data-share&lowbar;url&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;maegan-hall-tennessee-cop-scandal-lawsuit&sol;" data-secure&equals;"b58d235200"> <div class&equals;"wpra-call-to-action" style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;font-size&colon; 25px&semi;font-weight&colon; 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