Six officer charge with crimes resulting from investigation of the no-knock raid on the Harding st address.
Goines and his partner Bryant are on the right side of the image.
Make all body cams so they must be armed at the beginning of a shift and cannot be disabled with out a mallet.
Six officer charge with crimes resulting from investigation of the no-knock raid on the Harding st address.
Goines and his partner Bryant are on the right side of the image.
This bodycam thing reminds me of the McDonalds’ ice cream machines that are rarely “working” as staff turn them off and tell customers they are (still) broken (again) because they have neither time, staff, or desire to do the unnecessarily complicated cleaning process they require on the proprietary machines.
> Police Chief Acevedo ordered body cameras turned off when he arrived at the scene. <
Some bad cops will charge innocent people with “obstruction of justice” when they can find no other charge. It seems to me that Chief Acevedo’s behavior here truly was obstruction of justice.
Giving that order, and complying with it, should both be felonies.
Any no-knock or 2:00AM style SWAT-ish enforcement operation MUST be on site attended by the judge signing such a warrant. That would end the bull$hit and legal messes.
Where’s gator?
I recall how he and others opined here when this happened
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harding_Street_raid
This Goines appears to be black. The couples’ neighbor SWATted them with repeated phone calls claiming the deceased were dealing drugs. Goines falsified information to obtain the warrant for the raid.
Goines had previously while off duty shot and killed a driver on the freeway and been wounded. He claimed the other driver fired first and was not charged or disciplined.
In a typical no knock raid, they broke in and shot the dog. The husband fired at the police. Four police were wounded, but some may have been by friendly fire. The couple were both killed. They found small amounts of marajuana and cocaine, but not quantities for dealing.
Other officers and the SWATer were also charged. Felony murder seems a little over the top for falsifying information, as the SWATer and others on the force were involved. Kind of what you expect with no knock raids.
Great verdict by a Texas jury. Studying about this case should be mandatory in every police academy in the USA.
Killed them before they could flush any evidence down the toilet. That is what No Knock raids are all about, the toilet.
There is very little detail of forensics and ballistics related to that event.
My suspicion is that police kicked the door in, and shot the dog. The shotgun was pointed close to the wife, who instinctively pushed it way while at the same time, hearing the shot the rest of the police opened fire, and the injuries were primarily cause by friendly fire.
Good news...
Justice prevailed. This crap by these type of cops needs to end and maybe a few prison sentences will serve these a-hole cops right.
Enjoy the rest of your day, sucker.
A Co-Conspirator does NOT have to have any knowledge of the crimes the other conspirators are going to commit, they only have to make an OVERT ACT in furtherance of the Crime.
PROSECUTE THE QUISLING JUDGE THAT SIGNED THE WARRANT.
When someone breaks into your house you have the right to defend yourself and family with deadly force if necessary. The intruder cannot use the excuse that he is a cop or that he’s at the wrong house. If he shoots the innocent individual he has committed murder.