Grace King

The Knoxville Police Department looked into claims last year that a female officer was sexually assaulted by a fellow officer, despite its insistence it was not aware of such an incident when a city councilwoman raised concerns last week, a 10News investigation shows.

A KPD sergeant recalled in February 2020 that he told the department’s Internal Affairs Unit about the claim, according to a transcript of his interview included as part of a separate investigation into allegations of racism and a hostile workplace within the department.