The stories the Millersville conspiratorial cop tells about himself

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — With the Millersville Police Department now the focus of a TBI investigation, NewsChannel 5 investigates has uncovered new questions about the stories conspiratorial cop Shawn Taylor tells about himself.

Those new questions include stories Taylor tells about jobs he’s held in the past, stories about retaliation he says he’s faced, and stories that raise further questions about whether Taylor should have a gun and a badge.

According to the deputy police chief, he has been aware of a large international conspiracy involving some of the country’s most powerful politicians.

“We are getting closer to taking down the deep state,” he says in a video on his podcast.

It is a discovery that, he says, has continually kept him in his sights.

“Every time I go to an agency and start researching, every time I start showing them everything, they shut me down.”

That’s why Millersville’s deputy police chief says he’s had trouble holding down a job.

“You don’t become a gypsy cop by moving from one agency to another. You just don’t do it. It’s bad. But there came a time when that was what was forced on me.”

But our NewsChannel 5 investigation found that Shawn Taylor has left a trail of questions throughout his career.

His Facebook page states he once worked for the Williamson County Sheriff’s Department.

The agency says it has no record of him.

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In a job application, Taylor claimed to work for the Hickman County Sheriff’s Department as a “deputy sheriff” and “chief jail administrator.”

Hickman County officials say he “was just a corrections officer.”

Taylor claims to have had a nearly impeccable disciplinary record.

“I mean, literally, I’ve been ticketed once in my 25-year career and given a two-day suspension for a chase that went from one place all the way to downtown Nashville because I got caught in traffic on Sky 5, and it ended up being some guys that had stolen some people’s car.”

In fact, records show Taylor was nearly fired from the Columbia Police Department in 2009, following a complaint from a woman he was pursuing while he was married.

The woman claimed he “continued to call and text her” despite her objections, even calling her a “n…r lover” because she was friends with an African-American officer.

Investigators concluded he was guilty of harassment, stalking and trespassing.

Graphic by Bryan Staples/WTVF

Taylor initially denied the allegations, but later agreed to a 10-day suspension.

“It’s no secret that I was no angel when I was younger and I’m not going to hide because of it. My God, my Lord Jesus Christ, he knows what I’ve done,” Taylor said in a recent interview with right-wing podcasters.

“I’ve admitted everything I’ve done that was wrong, and that’s it, because that’s what a man does.”

But it’s not just about what Shawn Taylor has done in the past. We also uncover questions about the strange stories he keeps telling about how he became a victim of sinister forces who he believes would do whatever it takes to stop his investigations.

Taylor has declined to answer any of our questions about his wild conspiracy theories, but one of his favorites stems from a few months he spent working for a small police department in Saltillo, Tennessee, just across the Tennessee River in West Tennessee.

“Literally, someone showed up at my house and warned me. Literally a week later, I was involved in a head-on collision.”

There, Taylor claims he got so close to the truth about the conspiracies he had been investigating that, as he describes it, someone decided to take him out.

“I was warned literally several times and a week after being warned once, I was hit head-on in a car accident and survived.”

But NewsChannel 5 investigates I dug up the accident report for that crash, and it showed that rather than it being a deliberate crash, the other driver “ran a stop sign” and “both vehicles swerved to avoid each other” before colliding.

And Taylor showed no signs of incapacitating injuries, the report said.

Graphic created by Bryan Staples/WTVF

However, as he himself tells it: “And it left me out for about a year, a year and a half.”

Again, we obtained his personnel file, and it shows that several months after the accident, Taylor suddenly left a note with his badge and keys.

The note said that his “grandmother was sick.”

Taylor had given “no notice of his desire to resign and did not respond to calls or emails.”

Then, in the fall of 2022, Taylor’s story took another bizarre turn when she claimed her life was in danger because of the conspiracies she had uncovered.

“Oh, bro. Let me tell you,” he told a QAnon podcaster. “I’ve had a white van parked on my cul-de-sac two days in a row. That’s no joke.”

A few months later, before he was hired in Millersville, Taylor reported that someone had fired shots at his home.

According to a police report, Taylor suggested he may have been targeted because “it has been demonstrated that numerous high-ranking politicians and judges in the area are linked to money laundering and narcotics trafficking and sales.”

He showed images of the damage caused to his home by what he described as 9mm bullets.

“I mean it was an attempt to scare. It was an attempt to say, hey, you need to shut up.”

Back with his fellow QAnon podcasters, Taylor said they called the TBI and gave an agent permission to search his property for evidence.

But, he said, the officer went rogue and began searching without him being present.

“I told her she could pack her things and leave. So I basically put her in solitary confinement, right? She turned to me and said, ‘Well, I want to see who you’re going to hire to sort this out.'”

Which feeds back into their strange conspiracy theories.

“The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation cannot be trusted. I’ve spoken to people who worked at the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation on previous programs. We know where this is going.”

There were no witnesses, no one apparently caught it on home security cameras, and the shooter left no shell casings that could have been used to help investigators link him to a specific weapon.

The TBI says Shawn Taylor’s complaint about the shooting at his home remains under investigation.

Will this turn out to be a real threat or just another one of their conspiracies?

Neither Taylor nor Millersville police responded to NewsChannel 5’s questions.

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