The most memorable quotes in the Chattanooga Times Free Press for May 3-8.
“I have never met a single gang member who is being held accountable for being a gang member [who admits] he is a gang member. It’s the same reason that when police find heroin in your pants they’re not your pants.”
— Chattanooga Police Chief Fred Fletcher, after Olivet Baptist Church pastor Kevin Adams said police working in the city’s violence reduction initiative put monitoring bracelets on men who had gotten out of gang life
“I’ve never been to a cockfight where there weren’t children. And I’ve been to a heck of a lot of cockfights.”
— Retired FBI agent and animal fighting investigator Tom Farrow, on a new Tennessee law that raises penalties for animal fighting and for bringing children to such events