An off-duty Louisville Metro Corrections officer was injured when he was dragged by a car while trying to stop a shoplifter early Tuesday morning.

The officer saw a suspected shoplifter shortly after midnight at the Thorntons convenience store at the corner of West Broadway and South First Street, said Pam Windsor, a corrections spokeswoman.

After confronting the suspect out in the parking lot, the officer was dragged by the suspect's car for about half a block, Windsor said.

The suspect reportedly fled down the nearby ramp to southbound Interstate 65, said Louisville Metro Police spokeswoman Alicia Smiley.

The officer was taken to University Hospital with bruises and abrasions, and he was released later Tuesday morning, Windsor said.

The suspect was reportedly driving a gray car, Smiley said.

No arrests have been made.

A special prosecutor in Shelby County says he wants Kentucky State Police to investigate mayoral candidate and Metro Councilman Jim King as well as his daughter, District Court Judge Katie King.

Attorney General Jack Conway appointed Hart Megibben, the Shelby County Attorney, as a special prosecutor to look into possible criminal wrongdoing by the King's, related to campaign finance laws.

The Kentucky Registry of Election Finance called the donations Jim King made to his daughter's campaign a "non-knowing violation." But former mayoral candidate Ed Springston who has led the fight for criminal prosecution, says there was criminal intent all along.

"Jim King will be indicted. You can put that on record for all of your viewers out there, Jim King will be indicted. I will make sure of that," said Springston.

Megibben has read nearly 800 pages of evidence from the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance and has come to the conclusion that Kentucky State Police should be involved.

He's only a candidate for mayor but now Metro Councilman Jim King is upsetting the police chief saying he's ready for a change when it comes to the police department.

King says he has a long record of fighting crime and wants to re-vamp the department if he's elected mayor.

Now, Metro Police Chief Robert White is firing back.

Community activists and even a former FOP president joined Metro Councilman Jim King as he announced his platform for mayor curbing gang violence and street crime.

King wants to go back to how things were before Chief Robert White took the top spot at LMPD. That approach is causing a heated debate.

Mattie Jones, Community Activist, said, "When this gentleman, Jim King, a loving kind man a human being says enough is enough and we make a change in this community."

With a hug, Jones showed her support.

King announced he wants major changes in how the police department is run, saying, "I know we have flex platoons in the divisions but I'm looking for something more comprehensive in nature. I want to restore the gang squad. Gang violence is on the rise."

Jerry Abramson recently told WHAS 11 news "that he didn't know anything about claims that the city ran up $14 million in interest before settling a lawsuit with firefighters about overtime pay", but Metro Council Member Kelly Downard stated that the $14 million in interest is a direct result of the city's continued appeals. Appeals made at the request of Mayor Abramson and appeals that resulted in the court's consistently siding with firefighters.

The mayor's statement follows his abrupt decision to end the long standing court battle with firefighters and propose a $45 million settlement to be paid in three installments over an 8 month period. A settlement that will call for payments exceeding $100,000 to some firefighters.

Whether it was a change of heart or a call to get his house in order before the campaign for Kentucky's governorship begins full swing (The Latter), it can be reasonably assumed that a man who has made a career of micro managing his puppets departmental heads might not sound credible when he claims ignorance as a defense.