Dog the Bounty Hunter’s police officer son sues police for ‘retaliation’

Dog the bounty hunter‘s son Gary Chapman –WHO was fired and subsequently reinstatedof a police force in Alabama last year – is suing the department… He says they only punished him to teach him a lesson for calling a dirty cop.

Remember, Chapman’s employment was terminated last year after his involvement in a fatal high-speed chase. He was later reinstated, but he says he should never have been fired in the first place.

In court documents obtained by TMZ, Chapman claims the police, along with the mayor of Priceville, Alabama Sam Heflinused the tragic incident as an opportunity to smear his name and get rid of him – something Chapman claims they had been working on for some time.

Chapman claims it started when he filed a formal complaint about a fellow officer’s unprofessional conduct. In the papers, Chapman claims that department leadership dismissed the complaint, questioned why he was so concerned about another officer’s actions, and began fiddling with “previously undisclosed, minor issues to put his personnel file on paper.”

In the documents, Chapman claims that things escalated when he blew the whistle on an officer who planned to take a departmental K-9 as his personal pet when he left the department.

When the tragic accident occurred, Chapman said the mayor and police deliberately made him the public’s face, defaming him and causing him “catastrophic reputational damage.”

Chapman says he subsequently missed out on a promotion and has been unable to land another job in law enforcement because no agency wants to hire an officer whose name is in national headlines because of a fatal incident.