a morning almost two years ago, then-58-year-old David Shearon of Christiana, Tenn., was driving around Nashville running some business errands when his pickup truck was rear-ended. The driver of the 2001 Cadillac that had hit him from behind took responsibility…
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Beleagured Nashville DA Funk In Trouble Again
Nashville DA Glenn Funk now faces a federal civil rights lawsuit over his office’s handling of a high-profile domestic violence case. In that lawsuit made public Friday, developer David Chase accuses Funk and assistant DA Katy Miller of threatening Chase…
Read MoreHow Cops Twist the Law to Pursue Drug Suspects
Around 10 p.m. on April 14, 2011, two Metro police officers from the North Precinct’s Crime Suppression Unit approached the front door of a brick home just off Buena Vista Pike. They wore raid vests, according to court documents: “black…
Read MoreViolent Cop Haters Furious Cops Won’t Protect Them
The Black Panther Party is calling some Metro officers “pathetic” for their stance on BeyoncĂ©. The Fraternal Order of Police is urging officers not to volunteer to do security for the star’s concert here in May. This follows BeyoncĂ©’s controversial…
Read MoreLocal Cops Learn About Rights of Citizens They Serve
On the same downtown block where Nashville police officers carried a young John Lewis by his hands and feet to a paddy wagon for daring to take a seat at a whites-only lunch counter decades ago, today’s fresh-faced police recruits…
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