Citizens to city council: Routine arrests ugly, hateful
David Tulis, Chattanooga’s “blogger with the biggest pen,” shows city council the narrowness of Tennessee transportation law in Title 55, warning that many abusive police arrests occur as officers operate outside its commercial scope. (Photo NoogaRadio on Facebook) Avery Gray is the angry mother of a girl arrested during an illegally arranged repossession of a […]
City’s poor get relief, cops avoid liability suits — fruits of administrative notice
East Ridge, Tenn., having been notified about limits of the state transportation law, should act to protect its officers from litigation if they over-enforce Tenn. Code Ann. Title 55, which grants police powers only over commercial users of the roads. (Photo East Ridge city government) Tennessee has a reasonable and just transportation law. But East […]
Citizens appear to reject ‘double nickel’ police stop reform
Chris Perry and Payten McClain Perry. (Photo Facebook) The changes required in Tennessee traffic enforcement will be long in coming because of popular opinion that defends abusive mechanisms that harass blacks, the poor and strangers in the land. Common people of the sort who use Facebook universally reject the idea of a transportation stop reform […]
Traffic court misuses statute, bullies poor people, upholds fiction about ‘transportation’
Christina Wright, a fast-food shift manager, is unable to get a license because the test keeps changing. She travels the roads freely, but faces arrest under an abusively used statute directed solely at licensees. (Photo David Tulis) Traffic court is a venue for maintaining among the commonest people the idea that no liberty of travel […]
Will Hammond obey law, or follow black robes? Key question in race
Sheriff Jim Hammond talks to the Hamilton County school board about armed attacks against students and teachers. Sheriff Hammond has been notified that transportation stops against private travelers are outside the scope of Tennessee transportation statutes, and constitute an oppression. (Photo Hamilton County sheriff’s office) The main question in the race between Sheriff Jim Hammond […]
Omerrieal Woods faces phony ‘driving’ charges in East Ridge city court; his defense?
State traffic laws put commerce under police jurisdiction, such as enforcement by Tennessee Highway Patrol, whose badge makes clear his authority over commerce. East Ridge resident Omerrieal Woods faces East Ridge city court judge Chris Helton on the charge of “driving without a license.” Mr. Woods, a VW worker on the late shift, has never […]
Civil asset forfeiture law yields private cars to highwayman, shields commercial vehicles
Private cars and trucks are subjject to the state forfeiture statute, but not vehicles in commerce. (Photo Gribblenation) The distinction in Tennessee law between travel and transportation is found everywhere. Today I am talking with state Rep. Mike Carter regarding reform in the civil asset forfeiture statute that pares back some of the evils of […]
7 reasons mayors, sheriffs will refuse adding single question to traffic arrest protocol
Jeremiah resisted false prophets who rejected warnings from God because they had always done things the same way and could not change, even if for the better and obedience to their creator. (Image from woodcut from Eduard Bendemann, Museum Kunstpalast) The universal abuse of Tennessee driver’s license law cries for reform from the ground up, […]
Berke would make enemies if takes tough action over roadside abuses
Mayor Andy Berke of Chattanooga celebrates residents’ creativity in his state of the city speech April 19. (Photo Andy Berke) Ending police abuse of the traveling public in Chattanooga and beyond is an exciting prospect that will increase freedom and liberty in the area, draw more people to live and prosper here, and become an […]
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