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Title: Former policeman sues Cornersville
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Marshall Country Tribune (Tennessee)
URL Source: http://www.marshalltribune.com/story/1646057.html
Published: Jun 30, 2010
Author: Karen Hall
Post Date: 2010-07-07 01:01:55 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 185
Comments: 14
A suit seeking compensatory damages of $500,000, as well as punitive damages and costs, has been filed against Cornersville by a former employee. Jason D. Lee's attorney, Clay Parker of Shelbyville, filed the civil suit last week. In addition to the city and its police department, the suit names Mayor Amos Davis, Town Administrator Taylor Brandon and Police Chief Todd Bone in their official roles and as individuals. As of Friday afternoon, Brandon had no comment on the suit, because he had not yet seen a copy. Lee lives in Cornersville and claims he was denied gainful employment, free speech and due process. The source of the friction between Lee and the town appears to have been speeding tickets, and Cornersville's reputation as an alleged "speed trap." According to the complaint in Marshall County Circuit Court: Lee was a Cornersville policeman from September 2008 to June 2009. He has been unable to find another job in law enforcement since Cornersville fired him and he has been told that "officials of Cornersville have given him bad recommendations up to and including, but not limited to, statements that he was terminated for falsifying documents and reports and sleeping on the job." "Chief Todd Bone told the plaintiff that he must write at least five tickets each shift." Lee alleges he was told the city "gets more money from speeding tickets than from enforcing criminal law," and claims he was counseled several times "to stop making so many arrests and write more tickets." "The plaintiff expressed at various times to management and other individuals that he believed a quota system for tickets in deference to enforcing criminal laws was unlawful and refused to turn his back on enforcing laws as was his sworn duty." Lee was suspended from his job in mid-June 2009 without being given a reason. A meeting of the city council voted unanimously to let him come back to work "on probation." "Plaintiff has information, based on conversations with two city council members, that the above defendants (Davis, Brandon and Bone) wanted the plaintiff terminated." Davis called Lee after the council meeting and told him "to come in to work and if he saw anyone, including other officers, committing criminal offences he was to turn his head and look the other way and not come forward with it. He also told the plaintiff that if he told anyone about the conversation the two had he would 'fire him himself.'" In any event, Lee alleges he was fired when he reported to City Hall the next day. The suit states that Davis said his termination "was based in part on his attitude on the phone the night before," while Lee asserts the conversation was "very amiable."
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
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"if I have all faith so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing." 1 Cor 12:31—13:13 this is a saver. thanks for the post. for anyone on Ca who wants to beat a revenue ticket i highly suggest the free site http://helpigotaticket.com .i 've beaten 8 tickets using the information i learned at that free site http://helpigotaticket.com
"if I have all faith so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing." 1 Cor 12:31—13:13 Jason D. Lee is yet another example of the widespread emotional arrested development that is America. Years ago in CA I explained to a young cop-hopeful why he'd better not ever tell a review board that he would arrest another officer for DUI. He actually thought that the law was supposed to apply to all equally! The hypothetical question often asked is, "What would you do if you stopped your SGT and he was drinking and weaving while driving?" The correct answer is to take his keys and contact your supervisor. (It's okay to ruin some civilian's life who is having a bad week or who just lost his wife, but you wouldn't want to ruin your SGT's career, would you?) Former Officer Lee in Tenn doesn't know it yet but it's perfectly legal and acceptable to run a revenue mill/speed trap and to hire people for that purpose. The taxpayers in his town didn't pay him to enforce state speed laws because it's the right thing to do. He was expected to pay his own salary and earn more besides while on duty, not arrest "bad people" who were wanted elsewhere. The town gets zip from such arrests. Let banks and 7-11 Stores handle their own crime problems because one arrest for an outstanding warrant can kill a whole shift when he should have been raking in the cash. What a dumb ass. He actually believes that cops do The Lord's work! I really despise those immature assholes who believe that they can win by exposing their employers' "real motives". After a while he'll realize why no one else will hire his dumb ass. If he'll rat out his own then he ain't a team player who will help bury the bodies. Who needs him?
Huh ???
Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
if you want to hear a short 10 minute interview with the owner of that site, go to youtube & type the name geo mccalip. its 'fighting the tickets for revenue scam with geo mccalip on truth brigade radio'. Christie is the host of the show. they actually start their convo talking about me since i introduced them, lol. they are like minded patriots. great stuff. on another site geo sells t shirts that read AL QAIDA STARTED THE REICHTAG FIRE!, just to give you an idea, lol.
"if I have all faith so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing." 1 Cor 12:31—13:13 They are Saving Lives, one citation at a time. Didn't you see that PSA where the uber-sergeant intones "Speed Kills!"??
__________________________________________________________ On top of this and largely/generally being a bunch of lying pigs, most are really pussies anyway that are too afraid to go tackle the real fucking crime in society. It's much easier to tag your fellow citizens for speeding that poses no fucking threat to anyone most of the time, because even those retards can read numbers off of a machine, write it down on a citation, and copy information from a driver's license accurately. Usually that is. Things that should be said every time we discuss cops.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
Good. Now do the right thing and go find an honorable job.
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Director, CIA 1973–1976 Nothing in the State, everything outside the State, everything against the State - Jan Lester, Escape From Leviathan "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone. - Zhuangzi
Police should not be allowed to give out traffic tickets under any circumstances.
St. Ausgustine on the State: "It was a criminal band that achieved legitimacy not by renouncing aggression, but rather by attaining impunity."
"I don't know where Bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him"
George W, Bush, 3/13/02 http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html
#2. To: X-15 (#0)
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"I don't know where Bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him"
George W, Bush, 3/13/02 http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html
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#4. To: Artisan (#1)
i highly suggest the free site
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#6. To: HOUNDDAWG (#3)
#7. To: Eric Stratton (#5)
"I don't know where Bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him"
George W, Bush, 3/13/02 http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html
#8. To: Eric Stratton, Jethro Tull (#6)
It's much easier to tag your fellow citizens for speeding that poses no fucking threat to anyone most of the time...
Obama is the miscegenated bastard of a white communist whore. True story.
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#9. To: Eric Stratton (#6)
It's worse than that even, these filthy moral pigs will tazer your for doing nothing, a simple "look" that they consider threatening in their sociopathic world of paranoia, costing you thousands in legal fees if not a criminal record on their nancy-boy little false statements.
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#12. To: Artisan (#7)
#13. To: X-15 (#0)
He has been unable to find another job in law enforcement
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