Tanner Holt biography: 8 things about ex-Knoxville Police Department officer

Tanner Holt is a white man from Tennessee, United Sates. Here are eight more things about him:

1. He served in the Marines. _(a)
2. He was a Knoxville Police Department officer in Knoxville, Tennessee. _(a)
3. As a Knoxville Police Department officer, he patrolled Knoxville’s West District. _(a)
4. On June 26, 2021, he and Jonathan Toney, who is African-American, attended a wedding. Just before 9:00 p.m., he was knocked unconscious by Toney at a parking lot on W. Jackson Avenue in Old City, Knoxville. While heavily intoxicated, he said he “didn’t know they let black people in the reception hall,” according to Toney. _(a)(b)
5. He was off-duty when he was knocked unconscious on June 26, 2021. He was transported to the University of Tennessee (UT) Medical Center in Knoxville and no charges were filed. _(a)(b)
6. He was 22 years old when Toney knocked him unconscious on June 26, 2021. _(a)
7. On June 28, 2021, Knoxville Police Department chief Eve Thomas requested that the Internal Affairs Unit open an investigation about the incident on June 26, 2021 involving him and Toney. _(a)
8. On September 29, 2021, he resigned from the Knoxville Police Department. _(b)

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_SOURCES:

• _{a. Knox News}
• _{b. WBIR}