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Officer under perjury investigation for muddled tale of uppity black

Dragged to court by a perjurous police report on the day of the birth of his third child, Hanson Melvin of Chattanooga exits the Hamilton County courthouse in Chattanooga on June 14, 2016. (Photo David Tulis) This document is a sworn statement, aka a “police report,” that tells of a “screaming” and “yelling” family man […]

Melvin’s solution to police state: ‘Waive the court,’ demand indictment

Hanson Melville inks a form that “waives the court” as he asserts his constitutionally protected rights. (Photo David Tulis) By his signature, the defendant “waives” a right to a lesser court to assert his right to a greater. (Photo David Tulis) Part of the paperwork when you are absorbed into the legal machine and ground […]

Cop arrests pedestrian who refuses to show driver license; he files complaint

Hanson Melvin stands at the spot near Northgate mall where Chattanooga police waylayed him without probable cause and arrested him. (Photo David Tulis) I faced a judge in city court Tuesday on charges of disorderly conduct, but the disorderly conduct was that of Chattanooga police officers who arrested me for being a pedestrian who refused […]

Notice aids fight to overturn slick ruling on travel-transportation

Arthur Jay Hirsch waits for the court doors to open before his trial as a constitutional user of the roads in Lawrenceburg, Tenn., Dec. 22, 2015. (Photo David Tulis) A remarkable chancery court case in Lawrence County, Tenn.,, seeks to overturn a negative court of appeals ruling which denies the distinction between travel and transportation, […]

Lassitude grips city council as members do busywork, ignore Berke violence

Sharee Robinson-James, left, talks with police official Danna Vaughn about private criminal activity outside a city nightclub while, background, city council member Erskine Oglesby, left, chats with a staffer for Mayor Andy Berke. (Photo David Tulis) A great lassitude seems to afflict the residents of Chattanooga and keeps them from being angry about the abuse […]

Transportation administrative notice Tennessee

Chattanooga police officers in two cruisers enforce Title 55 of the Tennessee Code Annotated against a man on state highway 153 who is, by rebuttable presumption, a driver and an operator of a motor vehicle — but who may just be a private traveler caught in a legal snare set up by local officials in […]

Across board, rise of executive military state brings death, destruction

Hanson Melvin sits in the waiting room of district attorney Neal Pinkston’s office, reading a perjured indictment Mr. Pinkston won against him that the DA dismissed the next day in criminal court. But Mr. Pinkston lets go two criminal cops who made abusive, perjured arrests, one of whom was aided by a conspiracy of officers […]

Berke’s press ban: ‘No matter what he says, he’s not media’

Andy Berke names David Roddy chief of police Aug. 4, 2017, before a group of local media whose members are unlikely to ask questions about the trouble police officers have in obeying state law and caring about citizens’ God-given and constitutionally guaranteed rights. A ban by the mayor’s office of a blogger suggests that the Chattanooga […]

Berke cites life-saving de-escalation as police ideal in naming Roddy

David Roddy is tapped as the chief of the Chattanooga police department. Mayor Berke is at left, and city council member Darrin Ledford is at right. (Photo WDEF.com) Mayor Andy Berke, heeding growing public interest in reform, tells of an encounter between a drunken husband and an officer that in times past might have ended […]