Prosecution rests on day 9 of Gerald Goines murder trial while defense calls witnesses (Houston PDd No-knock murder of Tuttles)
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ABC Houston 13 ^
| Thursday, September 19, 2024 6:37PM | Miya Shay
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Prosecutors have rested their case against disgraced former Houston Police Officer Gerald Goines after nine days of trial. Texas
Ranger Jeff Wolf finished three days of testimony on the stand. During his final hour, Wolf was asked to read out loud to the jury some of Dennis Tuttle's extensive medical history. Tuttle, who was in the Navy as a young man, had a lengthy medical history with the local VA hospital. According to records read in court, he suffered constant pain following an industrial work accident. The pain was often debilitating, to the point where Tuttle...
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Trial Starts for Former Houston Police Officer Charged with Murder after No-Knock Raid
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AmmoLand ^
| September 14, 2024 | Dean Weingarten
On September 9, 2024, the murder trial of Gerald Goines started in Houston, Texas, more than five years after the killings. The
former Houston Police officer, undercover officer, and narcotics squad leader, was charged with the murders of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nickolas.On January 28, 2019, undercover Houston drug police raided the residence of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas, both 58 years old. Both of them and their dog were killed. The raid was caused by a neighbor who lied about the Tuttles, and Officer Gerald Goines lied on an affidavit to obtain a no-knock warrant. From Houstonpublicmedia.org:During the hearing...
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Push to Limit No-Knock Warrants Falters in New Hampshire
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Boston Globe ^
| May 10, 2023 | Steven Porter
Police raised concerns, so lawmakers moved forward with a less-restrictive proposal — and now that version of the bill is likely to be defeated CONCORD, N.H. — An effort to restrict the use of no-knock warrants in New Hampshire is likely to fail this week, after a committee advised the full Senate
to reject the proposal despite its bipartisan popularity in the House. The original version of House Bill 135 had called for a complete ban on no-knock warrants, which allow police to enter a property without knocking and announcing their presence in advance. But lawmakers watered down their proposal...
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Amir Locke’s Father Pushes No-Knock Warrant Ban Through Legislature
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Fox9 ^
| May 9, 2023 | Corin Hoggard
A ban on almost all no-knock warrants is inching towards the Governor Tim Walz's desk with a push from the family of a man killed during the service of one. Legislators
got deep into details Tuesday with law enforcement veterans hoping to fine tune the ban on no-knock warrants. But they also heard the emotional side of the story from Amir Locke’s father. Minneapolis police were not looking for Amir Locke when they served a no-knock warrant at the home where he was sleeping in February 2022.
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No-Knock Warrant Restrictions Advance in Colorado
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Fox31 ^
| Gabrielle Franklin
Across the nation, policies were formed following America’s confrontation with racism in the summer of 2020. A
case that sparked protests and calls for change then is the force behind a proposal getting ready for a vote now at the Colorado Capitol. Lawmakers and law enforcement have been working on a policy regarding no-knock warrants for years. Their compromise is now steps away from the governor’s desk.
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Texas House Overwhelmingly Approves Restrictions on No-Knock Warrants
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Reason ^
| 5.8.2023 | Jacob Sullum
Conservatives who support the bill recognize the conflict between unannounced home invasions and the Second Amendment.The Texas House of Representatives last week overwhelmingly approved a bill that would sharply restrict the use of no-knock search warrants, which the state Senate is now considering. Both
chambers are controlled by Republicans, and the bipartisan support for the bill suggests that many conservatives recognize the potentially lethal hazards of routinely allowing police to enter people's homes without warning. That practice pits law enforcement priorities against the right to armed self-defense in the home, which the Supreme Court has recognized as the "core" of...
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News Summary Intelligence Report Thursday 8/4/2022 Hungary's Viktor Orban Blasts Globalists In Dallas Speech, Bank Of England Issues Recession Warning, Federal Civil Rights Charges Over Deadly Louisville No-Knock Raid
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Nextrush Free ^
| 8/4/2022 | Nextrush/Self
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte speaking of "good representation" by farmers in talks set for tomorrow over the climate change cow gas rules. Rutte
visited a farm today ahead of the talks that are being boycotted by major farm protest organizations... "The globalists can go to hell. I have come to Texas" Some of the speech from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas... In Arizona the vote count continues from Tuesday's Primary. In the Republican race for Governor Kari Lake endorsed by President Trump now leads Karrin Taylor Robson 46.8 percent to...
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Police Officer Won’t Be Charged in Shooting of Amir Locke During No-Knock Raid
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The Wall Street Journal ^
| 06 April 2022 | Jennifer Calfas
The Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Amir Locke, a 22 year-old Black man, while executing a no-knock warrant in February won’t face criminal charges, prosecutors said.Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Hennepin County Attorney Michael Freeman said in a joint statement Wednesday there was insufficient admissible evidence to file charges against
Officer Mark Hanneman. “The State would be unable to disprove beyond a reasonable doubt any of the elements of Minnesota’s use-of-deadly-force statute that authorizes the use of force by Officer Hanneman,” the statement said. “Nor would the State be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt a criminal...
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The police reform bill bans no-knock warrants
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CNN ^
| May 25 | CNN
Here's what is included in the bill passed in the House earlier this year: The legislation would set up a national registry of police misconduct to stop officers from evading consequences for their actions by moving to another jurisdiction. It
would ban racial and religious profiling by law enforcement at the federal, state and local levels. It would overhaul qualified immunity, a controversial federal doctrine that protects officers accused of violating the Constitution while on duty and that critics say shields law enforcement from accountability. According to a fact sheet on the legislation, the measure would allow "individuals to recover...
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UPDATE: Illicit Deadly No-Knock Houston Raid of Innocent Couple ~ VIDEO
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AmmoLand ^
| 21 March, 2021 | Dean Weingarten
Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas were the victims. Harris
County District Attorney Kim Ogg held a press conference on the 25th of January, 2021, to release details about new indictments from a grand jury in the ongoing investigation of the illicit no-knock raid which occurred on the 28th of January, 2019, in Houston, Texas, on Harding Street. A gunfight occurred when the plainclothes officers burst in and shot the couple’s dog.See video below of press conference by Harris County DA Kim Ogg, 25 January 2021.Dennis Tuttle and his wife, Rhogena Nicholas were killed in the raid.The coverup of what happened...
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Death of Maryland man shows continued out-of-control nature of SWAT, no-knock raids (DUNCAN LEMP)
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MSN ^
| Feb 2 | JAMES BOVARD | OPINION COLUMNIST
One of the most positive developments from last year's political strife was a stronger focus on police abuses and no-knock raids. Some
states and cities have imposed new restrictions, others are working toward greater transparency when it comes to police shootings. Unfortunately, Maryland, a state that has wrestled with some of the most egregious SWAT and no-knock cases in the country, remains mired in controversy. The state has a long record of SWAT debacles. After police wrongfully raided a mayor’s house and killed his dogs in 2008, Maryland required police to report every SWAT raid. Between 2010 and 2014, police...
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Governor Northam Signs Ban on No-Knock Warrants Among Police Reform Legislation (VIRGINIA)
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WDBJ7 ^
| 10/28/20 | Pat Thomas
Gov. Ralph Northam has signed new laws he says will significantly advance police and criminal justice reform in Virginia. Northam says he has been working with legislators on the measures since early summer, when the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor led to a national reckoning on racial bias in policing.
“Too many families, in Virginia and across our nation, live in fear of being hurt or killed by police,” said Northam. “These new laws represent a tremendous step forward in rebuilding trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve. I am grateful to the legislators and advocates...
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What you need to know about no-knock warrants in the DMV
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WUSA9 | 9/29
What you need to know about no-knock warrants in the DMVCannot be post, only link.
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Breonna Taylor might well be alive had a no-knock warrant been executed
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Flopping Aces ^
| 09-24-20 | DrJohn
What happened to Breonna Taylor was a tragedy. There
is no getting around that. Yet Black Lives Matter made things a million times worse by lying and lying and lying about what actually happened. For months we've been fed phony accounts from the media who swallowed whatever BLM and the Taylor family attorney told them to say. Please read: In the aftermath of the death of Breonna Taylor during a police raid on her Louisville apartment, many have questioned whether the police were at the right apartment in the first place.“Unwarranted raid, at the wrong house for a suspect that...
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BREAKING: Kentucky AG says search warrant executed in Breonna Taylor killing was NOT a "no-knock" warrant
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Twitter ^
| Sep 23 | Breaking 911
@Breaking911Kentucky Attorney General says search warrant executed in #BreonnaTaylor killing was NOT a "no-knock" warrant & officers announced their presence
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Breonna Taylor Settlement: What it means for No-knock Warrants
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Gun Watch ^
| 22 September, 2020 | Dean Weingarten
image from flickr.com U.S. Army Material Command John B. Snyder, Watervliet Arsenal, N.Y. CC 2.0 12
January, 2012. In Louisville, Kentucky, the City has reached a settlement in the wrongful death lawsuit rising from the no-knock raid on Breonna Taylor's apartment. Breonna's boyfriend thought the raid was a home invasion. An exchange of gunfire through the door resulted in Breonna being killed on 13 March of this year. (edit) the shots which killed Breonna were fired inside the apartment. Only one shot was fired by Breonna's boyfriend. Several shots were fired from outside the apartment to inside, but did...
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More Felony Charges for More Officers from Deadly 2019 Houston No-Knock Raid
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AmmoLand ^
| 11 August, 2020 | Dean Weingarten
On 28 January, 2019, a Houston Police Department Narcotics unit executed a no-knock warrant on an innocent Houston Couple, Dennis Tuttle, a disabled Navy veteran, and his wife Rhogena Nicholas, a devout Christian. The raid was based on lies told to the court, about drug sales that never happened, to obtain the
warrant. The couple were not drug dealers. When armed men burst into their home, without warning, and killed their dog, Denis Tuttle is said to have fought back with his .357 revolver.Dennis and his wife Rhogena and their dog were all killed. The organizer of the raid, then...
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South Carolina Supreme Court temporarily bans no-knock warrants
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WMBF News ^
| 7/11/2020 | WMBF news
<p>COLUMBIA, SC (AP) - The South Carolina Supreme Court has temporarily ordered judges to stop issuing “no-knock” search warrants.</p> <p>The announcement, signed by Chief Justice Donald W. Beatty on Friday, said circuit and summary judges cannot sign off on the warrants until they receive further instruction from the state’s judicial branch on
how to issue the warrants.</p>
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Rand Paul announces 'Justice for Breonna Taylor Act' barring No-knock warrants
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Fox News ^
| June 12th | By Louis Casiano
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., introduced a bill Thursday to end "no-knock" warrants like the one that led to the shooting death of an African-American woman earlier this year. The
Justice for Breonna Taylor Act would prohibit federal law enforcement from forcibly entering a home without announcing their purpose for executing the warrant and their authority. The measure is named after Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT who was fatally shot by Louisville officers on March 13 after they used a battering ram to enter her home. The officers were executing a drug warrant in search of a male suspect who didn't...
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Breonna Taylor: Another No-Knock Raid Legitimately Resisted by Armed Force
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AmmoLand ^
| 11 June, 2020 | Dean Weingarten
Image is a screenshot taken from video at WAV3.com. Cropped and scaled by Dean Weingarten On March 13, 2020, at about 1 a.m., in Louisville, Kentucky, five police officers, at least three who were in plain clothes, without body cameras, executed a no-knock raid, with a warrant naming Breonna Taylor. The warrant
had the right address and person. The officers were not wearing body cameras, because they were narcotics officers, and were exempt by policy.From usa.today: No body-camera footage is available because officers in the Criminal Interdiction Division who conducted the search warrant do not wear cameras, police chief Steve...
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