Blacks in Chattanooga oppressed 10x
Hanson Melvin waits in the Hamilton County criminal court clerk’s office for a copy of his indictment. He had been kidnapped by a Chattanooga police officer, lied about and harassed by a gang of police officers after he’d made bail in May 2016. (Photo David Tulis) Tweet Pin It
Gaddy arrested, faces Dunlap jail cell as political prisoner
An assault case in Soddy-Daisy city court in a billing dispute with a garage owner brought Carol and Thomas Gaddy into a courts building in Chattanooga today, leading to her arrest in her property rights case in Dunlap, Tenn. , where she is under a judge’s finding of civil contempt. (Photo David Tulis) Carol Gaddy was […]
Gaddy says facing jail for cause of freedom, soldiers of foreign wars
Carol Gaddy stands next to a federal flag posted along the edge of her property along Coops Creek in Dunlap, Tenn. Her stand for God-given rights honors veterans and soldiers, she says. (Photo David Tulis) A feisty homeowner in Southeastern Tennessee who has defied a court’s order to voluntarily allow a search of her house […]
For cops, anything goes — DAs, cronyism, law shield abuse
Tennessee state Rep. Gerald McCormick sponsored a bill to give more legal favor to citizens on patrol (cop) by making an assault on an officer a “blue lives matter” felony. (Photo Twitter Gerald McCormick) “There is one criminal justice system for citizens — especially black and brown ones — and another for police in the United States.” […]
Engineer says Gaddy house ‘100% structurally sound’
An engineer’s inspection of the disputed Thomas and Carol Gaddy house in Dunlap, Tenn., says it is structurally sound — and thus not a threat to public safety, as alleged by town mayor Dwain Land, who demands their permission to inspect the house. The finding could lead to a break in the civil case in […]
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 […]
McMinn criminal court judge seals Fitzpatrick’s public ‘grand jury’ report
By Sharon Rondeau / The Post & Email (Jul. 29, 2017) — On Saturday, Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III received in the mail an order from McMinn County, Tenn., Criminal Court Judge Sandra Donaghy indicating that an alleged report produced by a three-person panel of the county grand jury was filed “under seal” so as to […]
Berke’s new police chief faces array of abuses, unfinished business
Chattanooga police acting chief David Roddy admires machine guns belonging to the federal military. Local base commander White is at left. (Photo, Fred Fletcher Twitter) Rochelle Gelpin of Hixson was arrested in her pajamas and groundlessly accused of “disorderly conduct.” Because she “sat on her rights” she was unable to sue for damages.(Photo David Tulis) […]
Humiliating TVA traffic stops show poverty of TN government
A TVA police officer, Scott E. Stone, gives me this business card after stopping a woman for having a motor vehicle tag that didn’t match her car. (Photo David Tulis) The TVA traffic enforcement story is raising alarm because it suggests how far down the state has sunk and, with it, its people. By David […]
TVA cops use TN statute to harass Highway 153, other travelers
TVA claims law enforcement jurisdiction as against the people in seven states, the authority to chase people down in traffic stops under the Tennessee code annotated even though expired or mismatched car tags do not endanger the public safety nor the operation of coal-fired electricity plants. (Photo Wikipedia) Tennessee law appears to allow for TVA […]