City council rapt as Gray tells of iffy arrest, injuries to girl
Avery Gray, center, talks with broadcast journalist Marie Mott and Isaiah Moore, a repentant and married former gang member. (Photo David Tulis) A tearful Avery Gray recounts to entranced city council the arrest of her daughter in June, dragged by a city cop from a parked car downtown in a legally sketchy arrest. Mrs. Gray […]
Police powers notice to fight for place in county records
Police officers in Chattanooga conduct a transportation stop against a traveler who, under legal presumption only, is involved in transportation. (Photo David Tulis) County attorney Rheubin Taylor and county register Marc Gravitt are resisting entry into the county record books a document called transportation administrative notice. The notice has powerful implications for police and sheriff […]
Will Mayor Berke rule — or overrule — violent department?
This chart on Page 17 of the latest CAFR — the comprehensive annual financial report — for city government shows clearly that police serve Mayor Andy Berke. Noah McLemore stands with a broom in the entrance of Footworks on Highway 58, where he was seized and harassed by fearful and anxious police officers serving Mayor […]
Notice project exploits fissure between law, TN policy, creates cause of action
People chat in front of Chattanooga city hall, wherein Mayor Andy Berke has been advised of the limits of Tenn. Code Ann. § Title 55 and asked to halt enforcement against noncommercial users of the roadways such as hiphop artist “C-Grimey” Cameron Williams, photo below, giving me an interview at Wildflower Cafe, a man whose […]
Cops, ATF aim guns at 6 children in wrong-house military raid near Eastgate
The six children of Tameka Parker were held at gunpoint as U.S. agents and city police demanded to search a house in a fruitless hunt for a fugitive. (Photo David Tulis) Jesse Parker is a gospel minister and public school teacher whose private house was raided without a warrant, and who was bullied into giving […]
Doctor’s 1966 warning vs. Medicare prophetic: ‘You’ll become clerk’
Dr. Curtis Caine, 96, residing at Morning Pointe of Hixson, has defied the state-owned medical establishment all of his professional career, at the start of which he refused to participate in Medicare. By Curtis W. Caine JACKSON, Miss., May 1, 1966 — Dear esteemed colleague, the time has come. You will now decide whether or […]
Journalist-teacher fights for driver license as system gridlocks on poor
Keelah Jackson is under a civil death sentence. The state tells this city court petitioner she cannot use a car privately, but must buy a license to drive or operate a car in commerce. But she is too poor to pay court fees and fines to end a state block on her getting a driver […]
Judge, clerks refuse ‘client’ restricted license, offer costly path for regular one
Jennifer Collins, a clerk at city court, talks Sept. 27 with Keelah Jackson about the Chattanooga woman’s civil death sentence — a pretended ban on using a car unless she has a driver license, one she cannot afford to renew, with F$800 in fines. (Photo David Tulis) Journalist and justice advocate Keelah Jackson met with […]
Tempers flare as new city attorney Noblett ripped on open records rebuff
Anthony Byrd, city council member in a chat after Tuesday’s meeting, says he sides with police in a noxious arrest of a girl dragged from her family’s car by a cop assisting in a repossession action by used car lot M&R Motors. (Photo David Tulis) Tempers flared at city council after 92.7 FM broadcast journalist […]
Tires, engine, steering wheel do not motor vehicle make
I stand before a family car, a RAV4, and wonder if its engine and its tires and body make it a “motor vehicle” subject to police powers. Or does the use of the car create liability for obedience to police intervention under Title 55? (Photo David Tulis) Are you traveling down the highway in a […]