The daughters of retired Bradley County Jail Administrator Christian Robert Jensen are suing the county, the Sheriff’s Office and unnamed deputies claiming the wrongful death of their father in June 2022 at the hands of deputies.
The lawsuit, filed June 7 by Kelsey Miles and Olivia Jensen in the U.S. Eastern District Court, is asking for $3 million in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages for what the lawsuit claims was the Sheriff’s Office and county’s failure to adequately train deputies in “proper use of force” in situations involving persons with mental health emergencies.
The lawsuit further claims responding deputies should have known the incident could have resulted in a “suicide by cop” and prepared to deal with it accordingly.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press reached out to the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office for comment, but it declined.