Traffic tickets by camera legally unenforceable; toss them
A Knoxville TV station confirms Rep. Andy Holt’s argument that camera-based traffic enforcement is legally unenforceable. “Do you really have to pay those red light camera tickets? Well, the answer we found was, NO!” — Amanda Hara, WVLT Knoxville By Rep. Andy Holt Folks, the truth about these societal leeches is slipping out, thanks to WVLT in […]
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 house solidly built, well renovated, engineer says
Barry Field, engineer David Tulis interviews an engineer who on July 24 inspected the Thomas and Carol Gaddy house in Dunlap, Tenn., and gives it a solid and safe review. “Subsequent to a thorough examination of the entire dwelling,” says Barry Field in a letter, “we found nothing that was not 100% structurally sound.” (Courtesy Noogaradio […]
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 […]
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 roadside traffic stops, arrests ‘provide value’ for people
TVA cop Scott E. Stone has used an LPR to seize a family traveling in Chattanooga to question them about a mismatched motor vehicle tag on their car July 22, 2017. (Photo David Tulis) A woman explains why a tag on the back of her car is mismatched on state records to an officer (barely […]
TVA arrests family in traffic stop as agency claims total TN jurisdiction
TVA officer Scott E. Stone gestures to an eyewitness at a “traffic stop” of a family sedan in Hixson on Saturday. (Photo David Tulis) Members of a family are let go after a “traffic stop” by a TVA cop near Chickamauga Dam on July 22. (Photo David Tulis) In this unmarked cruiser, TVA police officer […]
Gladden, Coonrod traffic stop typifies commercial enforcement
Anthony Gladden speaks to an officer from behind the wheel of a car. (Photo Times Free Press / Chattanooga police department) A traffic stop June 24 involving a car owned by city councilwoman Demetrus Coonrod is a picture of commercial government and its enforcement by police. The encounter on M.L. King Boulevard that night, city […]
Soddy-Daisy roadblock hits 2 nights over holiday
This video shows one of the escape routes for a roadblock tonight and Saturday near the Regions bank in Soddy-Daisy. (Photo David Tulis) Update. The city will run its roadblock tonight under the Highway 27 overpass in rainy weather 10 p.m. to midnight. DT Our earlier story: Soddy Daisy will be running police roadblocks tonight […]
Execution by firing squad: The militarized police state opens fire
Muzzle blasts from a police pistol slay Philando Castille in a notorious police execution. (Photo Facebook) “It is often the case that police shootings, incidents where law enforcement officers pull the trigger on civilians, are left out of the conversation on gun violence. But a police officer shooting a civilian counts as gun violence. Every […]