MILWAUKEE — Newly released body camera video shows a former Milwaukee Police detective lying to fellow officers about having her firearm after a drunk driving crash.

Detective Nicole Swenson was fired from the Milwaukee Police Department after the March 2024 incident at Hawley and State streets. The body camera footage, released after TMJ4's year-long investigation, shows Swenson denying she was the driver and that she had a firearm in her car when officers asked during the crash investigation.

"Is there any firearms in there?" an officer asked Swenson as she gathered belongings from her SUV.

"No," Swenson replied twice when pressed by officers.

However, open records reveal a detective who reviewed the body camera video saw Swenson remove a "holstered firearm from her center console …

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