LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — He has served more than 30 years in law enforcement, from stints at the Covington Police Department to a U.S. Department of Justice police trainer in Iraq.
But when Danny Jackson came back to Kentucky in 2022 to work as an officer for the Radcliff Police Department, he had to re-qualify at the state’s criminal justice academy in Richmond, just as he had done when he first began his career in 1989.
However, this time, Jackson was dismissed from the academy and told he was “unsafe on the range” and had “failed,” according to a discrimination lawsuit filed in Franklin Circuit Court last week against Kentucky state government…