Berke admits travel- transportation distinction, claims new power on private movement

Mayor Andy Berke of Chattanooga,caught in the CV-19 panic, is admitting a key legal distinction he has previously ignored, one that is part of a racially sensitive police power reform. By David Tulis / NoogaRadio 92.7 FM The distinction is between private travel and licensed/privileged transportation. His executive order seizing authority over private movement by car and truck is based on the pretext of a medical statewide emergency. Mayor Berke has been under a transportation administrative notice for more than two years, and has refused to end the Jim-Crow system that uses the state trucking law to harass the black, … Continue reading Berke admits travel- transportation distinction, claims new power on private movement