Captain of Special Investigations Edwin McPherson watches a sobriety check of a motorist on the lot at Kanku’s near Tunnel Blvd. Friday during the second night of a City-Wide Crime Saturation effort by Chattanooga Police.A police captain who intervened in a homicide investigation involving his niece was not disciplined by Chattanooga police chiefs during an internal affairs investigation for untruthfulness.
The actions of Capt. Edwin McPherson, a 20-year veteran of the department, prompted defense attorneys representing the four men charged in the homicide to file a motion to dismiss the case.
Internal affairs investigators with the police department issued a recommendation that McPherson should be disciplined for untruthfulness, but that was overturned by the department’s five chiefs during a disciplinary hearing.
“The facts were not there,” said Deputy Chief Tommy Kennedy, who oversaw the case.
McPherson declined to comment.