“May 2. Arrested Deacon Earl Simmons for obstruction. He asked why his son was being searched. Charge dropped 11 days later. Sheriff said, ‘That’ll teach him to run his mouth.’”Find Legal Aid
“June 19. Sheriff told me to write that Mr. Rufus Tate resisted. He didn’t. He was 71 and using a cane.”
Agent Greer read the pages slowly. His expression darkened with each page.
My arrest appeared to expose abuses far beyond one unlawful detention.
Then Miller pointed to the last entry, and his voice dropped to a whisper.
“This is the incident they told me never to mention.”
The last entry was dated fourteen months earlier, in August of the previous year.
Agent Greer read it out loud.
“August 9. Sheriff arrested Mrs. Hattie Greene, age 81, at her property on Cypress Creek Road. Charge: obstruction and disorderly conduct. She was standing on her porch telling surveyors from Pinecrest Holdings to get off her land. She was not disorderly. She was crying.Find Police Jobs
