The feckless LR mayor welcomed with open arms a bank that collaborated and supported the Third Reich and has been fined billions of dollars in fines and settlements.
Chase bank has also supported dictatorships in Cuba, Sudan, Liberia and Iran.
This is an example of the lack of concern the feckless mayor has for the plight of the ordinary man that is abused and manipulated by corrupt corporations like Chase.
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| LRFD fireman Christian Burton |
A complaint filed in federal court accuses Christian Burton, 35, of possession of child pornography with intent to view and receipt/distribution of child pornography.
A fire department spokesperson said Wednesday that Burton was arrested at work on July 2nd. He has been placed on administrative leave without pay.
A Little Rock police detective Amber Kalmer testified at a hearing July 12th that authorities found child pornography on Burton's phone and a photo that appeared to show his penis next to a sleeping boy.
Burton wanted to be released to his mother. But Judge Jerome T. Kearney rejected that idea and ordered him held in jail for the safety of the community.
Additional court filings indicate that there might be a witness, perhaps a child as Burton asked LRPD Detective Kalmer if a child had come forward.
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| Pulaski County Circuit Court Judge Herbert T. Wright |
In 2020 we filed four Arkansas Freedom of Information appeal from denial of rights lawsuits against the feckless Little Rock mayor and deadbeat police chief.
Two of the cases were assigned to Judge Wright and two were assigned to Judge Wendell Griffen.
Wright unsuccessfully tried to wrangle the two cases from Judge Griffen to no avail.
Initially, Wright failed to follow the law and set the cases for a hearing within seven days of the petitions being filed.
We had difficulty getting Wright to set a date for the hearing and that necessitated that we file a motion for his recusal.
That filing resulted in his setting a date for a hearing.
In that hearing the city attorney, Tom Carpenter, motioned that all four cases we filed be consolidated. This would require Judge Griffen to agree to step away from the two cases in his court (he didn't - more on those cases in another post).
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| Little Rock City Attorney Tom Carpenter |
So on March 3, 2020 the LR mayor and police chief appeared before Wright to answer for their refusal to turn over public records.
The first case involved copies of the non-exempt portions of each uniformed, plain clothed non-undercover LRPD officer's personnel record.
According to records LRPD had previously provided to us, they had approximately 529 non-undercover cops. In response to our request for copies of personnel files, they only provided 79 files and closed the request. Hence our appeal.
Wright ordered the city to provide those records to us by the close of business on the next day, March 4, 2020.
The other case was not addressed at the hearing.
On March 4th, the city provided us with a thumb drive containing 432 personnel files all jumbled up in 18 PDF's.
Five of the files were duplicates of files in the initial 79 files provided out of 529 files. We raised our concerns with the city attorney about the missing 23 files.
On March 5, 2020, the city filed a notice of compliance with the court in which they admitted to have not provided all the records as ordered.
Then COVID-19 happened and the courts for all practical purposes shut down.
When the courts opened back up in 2021 we asked for a hearing on our motion for contempt and for a hearing on the second case.
Initially Wright wanted to have the hearing via Zoom. That was fine, but he wanted us to be present in the courtroom while the defendants and city attorney could call in from their office or home. That showed a bias and preferential treatment for the defendants.
We objected.
After some additional court filings, Wright agreed to have all parties in his courtroom.
We must point out Wright's hypocrisy as he is a participating in a research project with Advancing Pretrial Policy and Research (APPR).
Here are some clips from the article about the project. The article is titled "Fairness and Efficiency Are at the Forefront of Reforms in Pulaski County".
The treatment we received from Wright was anything but equitable or fair.
At the hearing today he found no problems with the defendants not being present and would not hold the mayor or police chief in contempt and dismissed the second case.
That second case involved LRPD permitting an individual to have access to records (videos) that they refused to provide to us.
The message Wright sent out today is that his court orders are not worth the paper they are written on.
But the jokes on him.
We obtained all the records we asked for. We were given them last year.
In fact we almost skipped the hearing today. Wonder if he would have held us in contempt?
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As a result of the incident an internal investigation was opened.
No doubt the cops that responded to the call had Middleton's back. Look at this document.
At first Mrs. Middleton was very cooperative with the investigation. She even provided details about previous instance of his physical abuse.
But as many LRPD cop wives and girlfriends/baby momma's have done in the past, they stop cooperating or are unwilling to assist in the prosecution of the abuser because if convicted, these abusive cops would loose their jobs and the child support they would receive would be much less than if they remained on the job as a cop.
Notes in the internal investigation file indicate that Mrs. Middleton would not cooperate with the Prosecuting Attorney in the prosecution of her husband.
Cops like Middleton is one of the reasons citizens of Little Rock have little trust in the Little Rock Police Department.