Calkins: This Memphis restaurant owner went to the police. You might be surprised by what he found.
C.J. Davis, the interim chief of Memphis Police Department, and members of her staff recently met with Brookhaven Pub owner Rick Spell after police took three hours to answer a call on Brookhaven Circle in East Memphis. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Geoff Calkins
Geoff Calkins has been chronicling Memphis and Memphis sports for more than two decades. He is host of "The Geoff Calkins Show" from 9-11 a.m. M-F on 92.9 FM. Calkins has been named the best sports columnist in the country five times by the Associated Press sports editors, but still figures his best columns are about the people who make Memphis what it is.
Rick Spell had questions for the police.
Spell and his wife Sandy own the Brookhaven Pub & Grill and both local locations of Babalu. After a recent incident near Brookhaven, the police didn’t arrive for three hours.
So Spell and his attorney John Bobango arranged a meeting with C.J. Davis, the interim chief of the Memphis Police Department, and members of her staff.
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