Black people in Chattanooga live in fear of police. There is a culture of intimidation among officers who believe that they can carelessly charge people on nonlegal pretexts to harass them and show them their place. By David Tulis / Hot News Talk Radio Such charges may seem trivial in the workaday world of the cop, but they bring untold trouble to working men and women in our city, especially people such as Hanson Melvin. If perjury laced police reports are prosecuted as crimes in which there is a real victim, officers will exercise greater lenity upon the people and … Continue reading Pinkston asked to press ‘walking while black’ case vs. tough cop