Photo: Knoxville Police
An off-duty police officer (Tanner Holt above) was knocked unconscious with one punch at a wedding reception in Tennessee last month after witnesses said he made racist comments, according to police records.
Knoxville Police responded to a report of a simple assault involving 22-year-old Tanner Holt, an off-duty officer in the department, around 8:55 p.m. on June 26, police said in an incident report. Holt had reportedly said he “didn’t know they let Black people in the reception hall” before he was punched.
Holt is white. The man he was speaking to is Black.
In subsequent conversation, witnesses told police that Holt repeatedly stated he was “part of the Black community.” The man Holt was talking to asked him to “drop the race subject,” the report states.
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