Posted on 08/27/2019 3:38:50 AM PDT by marktwain
U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)-Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg has announced felony murder charges for former Sergeant Gerald Goins of Narcotics Squad 15, the Houston Police Department (HPD), in the homicides of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas. The married couple, who lived in their modest Houston home at 7815 Harding Street for Twenty years, were killed with their dog in a no-knock raid on January 28th. DA Ogg also announced former Houston police officer Steven Bryant has been charged with second-degree tampering of a government document.
Both officers retired two months after the raid, as the investigation into the raid proceeded.
The video of the press conference is 26 minutes long, courtesy of ABC13 Houston.
At every turn of the investigation of the 28 January raid, where the married couple was killed, and four officers wounded, more questions are raised and more disturbing facts uncovered.
We know the no-knock warrant was fraudulent. Both Houston Police Chief Acevedo and District Attorney Ogg acknowledge this fact. We know no significant amount of drugs or cash was found at 7815 Harding Street. We know most of the neighbors did not see anything suspicious and knew Dennis Tuttle as a medically discharged Navy man, and Rhogena Nicholas as a caring, believing Christian wife, who sent a prayer to her mother every day.
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Goines is on your left, Bryant on the right in the picture.
Cops gotta figure out how not to be idiots.
They should enjoy prison.
Problem is that law enforcement today isn't what it was 20, 30, 40 years ago, and many departments are reducing standards to keep their numbers up. This includes reducing or removing drug testing. Most of these cops we hear about have an almost carnal bloodlust and live on the belief that what they see in the movies and on TV is more true to life than it really is.
The other side of this is that law enforcement has to put up with a lot more crap than they used to. A combative, distrustful public doesn't make their jobs any easier, but a no-knock raid on a married couple? Terrifies me to think that all it takes is one call from a neighbor or even an online adversary could net you a dead dog and possibly the loss of your own life because the DA doesn't scrutinize the details. Sad.
And the left wants red flag laws? RIP the Republic.
Houston Police Chief Compares Cops To Nazis
The HPD's problems start at the top.
I’d rather see the scumbagpos’s get the Needle in Huntsville!!!
Or a Firing Squad.
Gee ... I wonder why "the public" is "combative" and "distrustful". Why do you suppose that state of affairs exists? You don't suppose the police have brought that upon themselves, do you?
And the media has not labeled the cops as “racists”? I’m confused.
The most is prison “justice”, the least is acquittal with a nice retirement.
I do not agree with or support the tactics that many law enforcement agencies use nowadays, but that has to do with the leadership. There are still good men and women out there doing a job they truly believe in. And as much as I'd love to see a self-policing public, law enforcement will remain a social necessity, because some perps just need to be removed from society, by force if necessary.
I talk to a lot of active and retired military men and women in my line of work, and many of them voice similar beliefs when it comes to today's military: they don't always agree with the mission but believe in the cause. However, you occasionally run into that one meathead who exemplifies what the media and the left say we embody, and that person should never be allowed around a bottle of booze and a rifle; but you're always going to have bad eggs.
If the media would cut it out with the sensationalizing of the bad and focus more on the good, we might see that, by and large, law enforcement is a force for good.
Somewhat unrelated, but this reminds me slightly of David Koresh. If you want to arrest him, or them, why not wait until they leave the home and swarm them?
I hope they burn in hell after a life of misery in prison.
A few bad apples does not make all law enforcement bad. Stop it with your lumping them all in together as being "bad." You look stupid doing so.
All of this leads back to the 1970s/1980s....as police organizations start to add more cops as the public felt that crime was growing. Cops may have been arresting folks, but the prosecutor/judge pattern might not have been fully employed.
So as they brought in more cops....they simply lowered the recruitment expectations. I would guess and say that a quarter of all the cops we have today....probably are more of a problem, than an asset. Some of them have moved into management, and readily recruit more personnel lacking the right skills.
The irrational “war on drugs” empowering gov’t and robbing citizens of their life.
No-knock raids should be almost non-existent.
Because then you don't get to use all that fancy tactical gear and pretend to be military.
The overall evidence is this married couple were simply decent citizens that were wrongly targeted.
They lived in the same modest home for 20 years. They were good neighbors. The neighbors did not believe they were drug dealers, because they were not.
The chief investigator, Goines, seems to have been the main culprit.
It is very hard to know exactly why this couple was targeted. It might have been an error; it might be Goines simply needed another case to get his supervisor off his butt.
It will likely come out. Several investigations going on.
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