Complaint Review: Blount County Police - Maryville Tennessee

WARNING - DO NOT CALL 9-1-1 unless you are prepared to go to jail! Only Blount County would think of establishing a policy like "whenever 9-1-1 is called, someone WILL be arrested." Unaware of this moronic and short-sighted policy, which gives the police way too much power and basically ensures the Attorney General maintains a bottomless caseload with the accompanying increase in income, I called Blount County 9-1-1 for help with my schizophrenic daughter. I am a 61 year old woman with a 32-year old daughter who has been diagnosed with paranoid delusional schizophrenia. She had balled up her fist and was about to strike me, which is why I called 9-1-1. After I made the call, my daughter calmed down so I got into my car and drove home, phoning 9-1-1 on the way to cancel the emergency. I had no idea the Blount County police have a policy that someone must be arrested whenever 9-1-1 is called! My daughter was angry with me for taking back my coffee table, but that was a personal family matter, not a police matter. Unaware that my daughter had accused me of domestic assault (she claimed in one story that I picked her up--she weighs 230 lbs.--and threw her off of the coffee table, and in another story that I picked her AND the 54 lb. coffee table up and flipped her and the table over. Never mind that I am a 61 year old woman and could not possibly lift her, much less her and the coffee table.), I told the 9-1-1 dispatcher and the police that I saw no reason to return to my daughter's apartment since the emergency had passed and I was in the middle of moving into a condo and had a thousand things to do. I have made similar calls to 9-1-1 over the years for help with my daughter and NEVER had the officer order me to return to the scene without any explanation of why. Within an hour, I was shocked to find myself surrounded by police cars in the driveway of my new condo with all of my neighbors looking on as I was arrested for domestic assault, placed in handcuffs, and hauled away to jail for the first time in my life. I was released the following night on my own recognizence, but I am now facing criminal charges and possible incarceration for a crime I did not commit based on a lie from a known paranoid delusional schizophrenic. Now my son won't speak to his sister or brother-in-law, so this is tearing my family apart. If I am convicted of this, I will no longer be able to help my daughter who is also blind, diabetic, and married to a lazy, abusive pothead who has lived off of her Section 8 and SSI for years though he earns $50,000 a year. She is nothing but a free meal ticket to him, and he makes her go without her insulin and medications until she is so sick she has to be hospitalized, out of her mind and defacating on herself. This is unconscionable! At the initial hearing, my muscular 31 year old son told his sister in Mike Flynn's presence that he could not lift her and the coffee table and flip them over without difficulty, so he knows I couldn't do it, so it is obvious her story is a lie. Mike Flynn quickly hurried my daughter and her useless husband away from her brother. Mike Flynn's motivation for pushing my daughter to go to trial no matter the price to me or my family is that he only gets paid when a case goes to trial. The police and the attorney general are supposed to serve their community, not put innocent citizens in jail!!! Blount County citizens must demand that this unjust, arbitrary policy of putting someone in jail whenever 9-1-1 is called be stricken and removed from policy. This policy is unjust, wastes the tax payer's dollars, and needlessly destroys the reputation and livelihood of innocent citizens. Mike Flynn and Hatcher, who signed the arrest warrant, should be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail.