NASHVILLE, Tenn.
A former Nashville police officer who also was a Teamsters organizer has pleaded guilty to charges he broke into a children's camp to set up cameras to discredit members of a rival union.
Calvin Hullett, 45, pleaded guilty Tuesday during his trial as part of a plea agreement. It was reported that he faces between 10 and 16 months in federal prison.
Hullett was arrested in 2007 after authorities learned that he had installed cameras at the camp for disadvantaged children operated by the Fraternal Order of Police. At the time, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Hullett's employer, and the FOP were competing to represent Nashville police officers at the bargaining table.
The Teamsters took over representation of the police in 2005 but were decertified in 2007 after a petition drive by the FOP.
Investigators have alleged the hidden cameras were placed at the camp to try to discredit the FOP by catching officers engaged in some type of misconduct.
Earlier, former Shelby County deputy Joe Everson pleaded guilty to lying to investigators in connection with the incident.
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I want to first start this off by saying that we as citizens need to be more open minded as outsiders in this situation. First and foremost I want to know what is in fact on these tapes, before I say this is another bad cop! Not one time has any of the FOP members, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, or the Unites States Attorney's office said that the allegations at the camp are infact false. Me as a parent of a young child, want to understand why this is. If my child had ever at any point attended this camp, and I had known that someone found it imperative to set up sruveillance, and put his reputation on the line to catch what they believe to be misconduct and abuse of children, I WOULD WANT TO KNOW FOR SURE THIS WAS ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE! Futher more if it were taking place, HE WOULD BE PRAISED FOR HIS ACTIONS RATHER THAN PENALIZED. This man was a police officer from my understanding for several years, why would he go to the extent he did to prove this was the case if it werent in fact true. If the prosecutions case was so air tight, and they werent in any way fearful of losing their case, why then would they offer this man a plea if they werent fearful of something coming out? Could it be that there is actually more to this story than we are hearing, and its more than just an ex officer gone bad? As a rational person I believe there is and I also believe that due to the allegations, people in this world would go to great lengths to cover up the truth. It is much easier to run from the truth and take one person down, rather than facing the truth and taking down a whole organization! Come on folks, there is obviously way more to this story than we are being told, and I as a concerned citizen, and parent, want to know why. I want to know why our worries are not being squashed by a simple truth, or explanation. I pray that the truth, whatever that may be, truly reveals itself and justice is done.
There are four video links to YouTube Video's attached. Please watch these video's in order - there is audio in some of it that is very interesting. You will see what they did to my dad to cover this up. It's a shame that our justice system allows misconduct by a few cops and the prosecutors and they bury a man to keep their own from getting in trouble. My dad's name is Calvin Hullett. He was a well respected police officer, but he crossed the thin blue line to expose wrongdoing in his police department when nobody else would do it. And he ends up paying a huge price and the real culprits misconduct is never exposed - to protect the police and the prosecutors. We need help from around the world to stop this.
Please forward this to everyone you know and ask them to do the same. This is wrong and my dad needs help. If you know politicans, attorney's, respected leaders, or anyone who will stand up for what is right please make sure they know about this.
Thank you!
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