Top police brass weigh results of Melvin false arrest probe
Lights flashing, Chattanooga police officers prepare to hop out of their cruiser to enforce a law. (Photo Wrcbtv.com) The legwork in the investigation of Chattanooga policeman David Campbell is complete, apparently without interviews of witnesses who saw him arrest Hanson Melvin on May 29 at his Hixson apartment complex. “It’s still in investigation,” Lt. Pedro […]
Top police brass weighing probe in Melvin false arrest caseMelvin false arrest
Lights flashing, Chattanooga police officers prepare to hop out of their cruiser to enforce a law. (Photo Wrcbtv.com) The legwork in the investigation of Chattanooga policeman David Campbell is complete, apparently without interviews of witnesses who saw him arrest Hanson Melvin on May 29 at his Hixson apartment complex. “It’s still in investigation,” Lt. Pedro […]
Charges against an innocent man dismissed, to be expunged
Hanson Melvin is in a cheerful mood outside the Hamilton County courts building in Chattanooga after having his case dismissed. (Photo David Tulis) A black pedestrian was cleared today of criminal charges that he caused a public disturbance when he stood his ground against police demands he produce a driver license and tell his social […]
Man refuses to bow; judge, prosecutor toss busted case
Hanson Melvin is in a cheerful mood outside the Hamilton County courts building in Chattanooga after having his case dismissed. (Photo David Tulis) A black pedestrian was cleared today of criminal charges that he caused a public disturbance when he stood his ground against police demands he produce a driver license and tell his social […]
Witness says Melvin did not raise voice during arrest
Donna Robertson is a defense witness in the state’s case against “walking while black” defendant Hanson Melvin. (Photo David Tulis) The case against Melvin Hanson pits a report by a Chattanooga cop, David Campbell, against the word of defendant Hanson Melvin and a group of witnesses such as Donna Robertson. Mrs. Robertson lives across the […]
Cop Campbell makes man ‘fear for my life’ in 2012 traffic stop
Hanson Melvin waits in the Hamilton County criminal court clerk’s office for a copy of his indictment. (Photo David Tulis) Chattanooga police officer David Campbell, hounding a hapless but uppity black through the courts, has in his record a citizen complaint for abusive treatment. Officer Campbell is under investigation today by his department for what […]
Meet Hanson Melvin, victim of police abuse, pending court case
Hanson Melvin talks with David Tulis and Mike Steel about his arrest and indictment premised on a false report by city police officer David Campbell, against whom an internal affairs complaint has been filed. The interview at AM 1240 Hot News Talk Radio tells of his coming hearing Friday before criminal court judge Don Poole. […]
Pinkston wins indictment in case in which cop perjures self
As people come and go, Hanson Melvin sits in the waiting room of district attorney Neal Pinkston’s office Wednesday, reading the indictment Mr. Pinkston won against him on a phony police report. (Photo David Tulis) Misled by bold fibbery in a police report, the Hamilton County grand jury has indicted Hanson Melvin, a father of […]
If you abolish police, you save lives, restore order under tried, true authority
Chattanooga police chief Fred Fletcher is an unelected enforcer of state statute, his standing army not responsive to the interests of constitutional liberty. (Photo police department Twitter, Wrcbtv.com). There’s a good reason why the founding fathers wanted sheriffs to protect the innocent and keep public order. The sheriff has to be elected by the people […]
EPA to regulate airline emissions; but feds’ sky striping program exempt
Government muddled or wicked? EPA plans to regulate airline pollution, but the U.S. official pollution program — also called strategic aerosol injections — remains unmolested, as here over Daytona Beach, Fla. (Photo Faline Spires, Geoengineeringwatch.org) A morning scene over Hixson, north of Chattanooga, in which an already noxious sky is highlighted by a jet trail […]