Kyle Chrisley has filed a $1.7 million lawsuit towards Rutherford County in Tennessee, in addition to two sheriff’s deputies, over a September 2024 aggravated assault arrest.
In paperwork obtained by native outlet WSMV on Tuesday, August 19, Kyle, 33, and his spouse Ashleigh allege that he was falsely arrested at his house in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, final 12 months following an altercation with a “disgruntled mechanic,” who they stated was “offended over a fee dispute, confirmed up uninvited, kicked at their doorways, threatened violence, and used his automobile as a weapon by ramming their SUV and practically working Kyle over in entrance of a number of neighbors.”
Kyle and Ashleigh declare that as a substitute of arresting “the person who brought about the chaos,” Rutherford County Sheriff’s Workplace deputies as a substitute arrested Kyle, ignoring “clear proof that he was the sufferer, not the aggressor.”
The submitting additional alleges that deputies “disregarded eyewitnesses, neglected accessible video footage and ignored Tennessee’s self-defense legislation” when making the arrest.
The doc claims Ashleigh was “threatened with arrest and ordered to cease recording” after she started filming the arrest on her cellular phone “to doc the officers’ conduct.”
“Kyle and Ashleigh Chrisley carry this lawsuit as a result of no household ought to face felony prices or threats of arrest for defending themselves at house or for exercising their constitutional rights,” the lawsuit reads. “This can be a case about false arrest, extreme drive, and retaliation for making an attempt to carry law enforcement officials accountable.”
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The couple declare that “a number of officers” acknowledged Kyle as “a member of the Chrisley household, who’re broadly recognized from the fact tv sequence Chrisley Is aware of Greatest and related public controversies,” and that the officers “appeared desperate to arrest [Kyle], treating the encounter as a possibility to make headlines by arresting a well known determine.”
They declare the “arrest was motivated partly by animus towards Plaintiff Kyle Chrisley primarily based on his notoriety, previous public controversies, or perceived privilege, reasonably than on the details or legislation surrounding the September 9, 2024, incident.”
Kyle’s lawyer, Wesley Clark of Brazil Clark, PLLC, stated in an announcement to Individuals on Tuesday: “Our hopes for this lawsuit are accountability and alter as a result of no household ought to should endure what the Chrisley household endured on this terrifying situation.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Kyle’s lawyer and the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Workplace for remark.
Let the cameras roll. Chrisley Is aware of Greatest is actually not with out drama, however its stars have been on the heart of extra controversies than a single actuality present can deal with. Followers met Todd Chrisley, Julie Chrisley and their youngsters — Chase, Savannah and Grayson — when the sequence premiered on USA Community in March 2014. […]
Kyle’s lawsuit comes simply three months after his dad, Todd, and stepmom Julie have been pardoned by President Donald Trump in Might following their 2022 conviction on prices together with financial institution fraud and tax evasion. (Todd shares Kyle and daughter Lindsie, 35, with ex-wife Teresa Terry. He additionally has three kids — Savannah, 28, Chase, 29, and Grayson, 19 — with Julie. Todd and Julie are additionally the adoptive dad and mom of Kyle’s daughter, Chloe, 12.)
On the time, Kyle stated he was “ecstatic” in regards to the information, including, “Really. I simply discovered just a little bit in the past and I nonetheless simply can’t imagine it.”
