Houston cop 'lied about drug dealing so officers could storm home'...

Daily Mail ^ | 02-15-2019 | Lauren Fruen

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Houston cop 'lied about drug dealing so officers could storm home' sparking a shootout which left a couple dead and five officers wounded

The Houston officer who led a deadly raid in which a couple were killed and five cops were injured lied to get a search warrant, according to the city's police chief.

Lead investigator Gerald Goines alleged an informant bought heroin at the house of Dennis Tuttle, 59, and Rhogena Nicholas, 58, the day before the January 28 raid. The informant had also allegedly seen a handgun in the home.

But according to an affidavit filed as part of the ongoing investigation into the raid and made public Friday, the informant told investigators he or she had not bought any drugs at the home and had not been involved in any work leading up to the raid.

[Mr.Unique]

'We have 5,200 officers and I would ask that nobody paint our department with a broad brush. This is not indicative of the greater work that goes on here,' Acevedo said.

Luckily all those other good officers stopped this guy.

[Mr.Unique]

Did Goines gave a personal issue with this couple?

It doesn't have to be personal. Cops are at "war" and "civilians" are the enemy.

[null and void]

Added. Welcome aboard!

[null and void]

It's Us vs Them.

If it were Us vs Crime, there wouldn't be a code of silence.

And We wouldn't be Them...

[Lurker]

“official oppression (or whatever the Texas equivalent is).”

18USC242 is the relevant Federal statute. The death penalty is available if the crime is committed while armed and under official authority.

The Feds should step in and use that.

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[ImJustAnotherOkie]

There you go, a motive.

[null and void]

What motive does a sociopath serial killer have for his (and it’s usually a his) murders?

[Leaning Right]

> The informant is in a tough place... <

I’d advise that informant not to meet with any cops in a remote location, especially after dark.

[ifinnegan]

So there was an informant (headline makes it seem cop just made it up out of thin air) who is apparently changing his story.

[ifinnegan]

It was called SWATIng.

[ifinnegan]

So more heroin dealers getting off scot-free?

[PapaBear3625]

Here’s my big question: WHY?

What was the motive for the cop to bypass procedure in order to raid this elderly couple with no criminal record? Did they piss off somebody? Did they have seizable stuff under “asset forfeiture”? What did the cop hope to gain, that overrode the risks?

I’m hoping we find this out.

[ifinnegan]

“Overwhelming majority of cops are good decent folks”

You are obviously a cop sucker.

[ifinnegan]

Yeah! Fight the power, comrade! Kappernick!!!!

Take that knee!

[beef]

I would like to be on the ping list. Thanks!

[PapaBear3625]

A bag of marijuana and a "small amount of white powder", which of course could also have been brought into the house after the fact by others...

Notice that more than enough time has gone by, for there to have been lab analysis of the "white powder". But no announcement.

[Cen-Tejas]

Acevedo, as Austin Police Chief, created and implemented the policy of 5 or 6 bull cops holding you down and forcibly drawing blood.

Of course you can just surrender meekly your right to not self incriminate yourself and the cops will keep playing poker back in the back room.

Acevedo is not a cop. He’s a Liberal Politician.

[waterhill]

The movie Training Day illustrates this.

[PapaBear3625]

There is a LOT of social pressure to shield a bad cop, shunning, no one wanting to go on patrol with someone they "can't trust", colleagues leave the cop bar when you show up, etc. Maybe one in 10 of that 85-90% can stand up to the possibility of shunning.

A cop who would encourage or even participate in shunning, or other acts of retribution against someone who exposes a bad cop, is himself a bad cop, even if he commits no other act of personal corruption.