I don't care if they hate country music, no reason to put a gun to the guy's head.
If someone had me lay face down on the floor, I’d be thinking, “It’s over!”
I would think the officers were confronted and asked what their story was. Evidently it wasn’t credible. And they are now unemployed or worse.
It would be interesting to hear how they could justify this.
I guess these cops take their foosball seriously.
I bet there’s more to this story than meets the eye.
I read about this when it first happened and am glad to see this recent information; however, I am surprised to see the two cops are only being charged with a misdemeanor. From what I read earlier, they committed a felony or more.
Fired?
They should be in jail.
And, this is one more reason why only cops shouldn’t have guns, and an even greater reason why cops shouldn’t be equipped with SWAT teams and paramilitary gear.
Foosball eh? Sounds kinda gay to me.
Foosball is a blast. I used to be quite good.
From a couple of weeks ago.....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947492/posts
Dallas police ask DA’s office to prosecute 2 officers after country singer incident
Dallas: Men say pair held them at gunpoint at country singer’s house
09:00 PM CST on Wednesday, January 2, 2008
By TANYA EISERER / The Dallas Morning News teiserer@dallasnews.com
The Dallas Police Department is asking the district attorney’s office to prosecute two officers accused of holding Dallas country music singer Steve Holy and a friend at gunpoint in a Dec. 27 incident...
...An attorney representing Mr. Holy has said that the singer had taken time off from his tour for the holidays on Dec. 27 when he and a friend went to a Greenville Avenue bar not far from his house. At the bar, Mr. Holy saw an off-duty Dallas officer he knew, and that officer introduced him to two other off-duty officers, now identified as Officers Anderson and Loughridge.
...Officer Anderson began climbing the stairs, yelling at Mr. Holy’s wife. As his wife stood at the top of the stairs, Mr. Holy tried to get up, but Officer Anderson yelled at him to “ ‘get the [expletive] down’ and pointed his gun at him again,” the records state.
...He came back down the staircase “with the gun no longer in his hand and stated to the Complainant [that] he would kill him if he said anything about the incident.” He also told Mr. Holy to have his wife call 911 back and say they didn’t need to send anybody. The two off-duty officers then left.
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Link to entire article at the Dallas Morning News:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/010308dnmetcopscharged.22f9f86.html
That depends.
Some country music can be really, really annoying.
I'll wait to pass judgement until I hear some of his music.
: )
I’m sure that the cops-can-do-no-wrong crowd will come up with a reason, maybe several.
Well at least they didn’t shot the dog.
Woe be to us and our liberty when our law enforcement officers become just as morally bankrupt as the rest of the population. It has already started to happen.
I spoke to someone on Holy’s management team just after this happened. He’s not gay. His (frightened) wife was upstairs. Seems like a nice guy (I met him once at a function at which my daughter was also performing). His friend the cop introduced him to the other cops and they continued the drinking back at his place. I think Holy’s only mistake might have been drinking a bit much and trusting folks he didn’t know. I’d like to hear from the cop that left. The two a-hole cops should be prosecuted.
If this is the guy that did “Achey Brackey Heart,” it was justified.
Wonder if the cops were drinking and carrying their guns. Were they on or off duty. I assume off. Cops can carry off duty but I doubt they are supposed to drink. But who know I am a peon to the privilaged.