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 […]
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 […]
Sun shines over Red Bank; city attorney refuses to admit TAN
Because Red Bank refuses to acknowledge receipt of transportation administrative notice, I file an affidavit of service. (Photo David Tulis) City of Red Bank is one that refuses to recommend itself to the larger world, and deserves what up through today is a rotten reputation as a municipality, a shaggy place full of empty storefronts […]
Charging, tasing woman, 87, wins sissy cop honor for chief, 2 cops
Lee University grad Martha Douhne and her grandmother, Martha Al-Bashara, talk with a Newschannel9 reporter in Chatsworth, Ga. (Photo Newschannel9) Chatsworth Police Department wins my first sissy cop award for extraordinary valor in offloading 99.98 percent of personal risk onto others and tasing an old woman so that the police chief and his two subordinates […]
Charlottesville suppresses political liberty in name of safety
To avoid a repetition of the protest of August 2017, as seen here in an exchange of digital gestures, Charlottesville city government is imposing a police state and voiding constitutional liberty. (Photo Wikipedia) CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — While it is appropriate that the government and the public work together to ensure that the tragedies of August […]
Rescuers tell prosecutors meaning of interposition to save preborn
Operation Rescue activists have the support of demonstrators. (Photo Operation Save America) Update on the Louisville Rescue and the F.A.C.E. trial by Rusty Thomas, National Director of Operation Save America. Read his official response to the federal prosecutor’s interrogatories. Brethren, I just received permission from our attorneys to release the questionnaire or what they call interrogatories […]
Residents could win huge refund if Gaddy right about Dunlap annex flaw
Steve Darnell, an administrative law judge from the Tennessee department of state, strolls about the old Sequatchie County courthouse prior to hearing a case seeking to overturn 1972 annexation claims by City of Dunlap, a municipal corporation. (Photos David Tulis) Ivan Condra, 84, elected property assessor seven times, served 28 years and is a longtime […]