Posted on 02/07/2019 11:35:57 AM PST by abb
A veteran Houston police narcotics officer has been relieved of duty due to "ongoing questions" that have emerged over his role in a raid last week that ended in a deadly mid-afternoon shootout, police said Thursday.
"We have confirmed that at least one narcotics officer has been relieved of duty due to ongoing questions that cannot be answered until the case agent is interviewed," HPOU President Joe Gamaldi said in a written statement.
"The department made the decision to relieve the officer of duty while a thorough investigation continues. Nearly all officers relieved of duty return to work quickly after an investigation is complete. Rumors will undoubtedly continue until the case agent is able to be interviewed. Unfortunately, his gunshot wound has resulted in him being incapacitated while surgeries continue. Any assumptions or conclusions made prior to the interview taking place, are just assumptions."
The Harris County District Attorney's Office said Thursday it would conduct a civil rights investigation of the shooting and present the findings to a grand jury. Such investigations and grand jury consideration are standard with officer-involved shootings, according to spokesman Dane Schiller.
Ashton Woods, a local activist who criticized the department's handling of the bust as well as the union's fiery response afterward, on Thursday lauded news of the disciplinary action while still pushing for closer scrutiny.
"This whole situation has been suspicious from the jump," he said. "I'm glad that they're being investigated but it sounds like it's time for Houston police to bring in an outside entity to investigate the case."
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Diry from de jump.
I find this "jump" business suspicious.
Who jumped off of what.. or jumped onto who?
Did they jump on a bed or out of an airplane or what?
We really need some clarity on this "jump" business.
They jumped out of the frying pan into the fired...................
According to three law enforcement sources, one focus of the investigation is about the validity of a purported controlled buy of suspected heroin in the 7800 block of Harding Street in southeast Houston. In a search warrant affidavit, the case agent wrote that a confidential informant purchased a brown powder substance known as “boy,” the street term for heroin, on Jan. 27.
“...we will leave no stone unturned to determine the good, the bad and the ugly...”
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Sadly, I suspect there is little besides bad and ugly about this “operation”. The Houston PD needs to be entirely honest with this investigation.
Well, HPD or the FBI don’t need to be conducting it. I suggest the Texas Rangers.
Do you also suggest that they jump?
Should they be hopping all around?
Because "JUMP".
The official story smells and raises more questions than it answers. Why was no “black tar” heroin found in this den of supposedly very dangerous drug dealers (well, I assume they were very dangerous and an immediate threat based on the choice to do this kind of raid)? Were the cops even at the right address? Were all the injured cops shot by the homeowner, or (as happens too often), shot by their own colleagues?
What this sounds more and more like is that someone essentially “swatted” the house, calling in a fake report that it was a drug house. Then the cops sent an informant to the door who came back telling them what they wanted to hear, that he’d bought heroin and seen guns. Then they got a warrant and went in shooting. I suspect the next thing to come out is that most if not all of the cops were hit by friendly fire.
With the gun-grabber Art Acevedo as HPD Chief, you will NEVER know the truth. What you WILL hear is something about how citizens should be disarmed for the protection of officers, and other citizens.
No mention of citizens protecting themselves from other citizens, or dirty cops will ever be said.
Not in Houston...
The official story smells and raises more questions than it answers. Why was no “black tar” heroin found in this den of supposedly very dangerous drug dealers (well, I assume they were very dangerous and an immediate threat based on the choice to do this kind of raid)? Were the cops even at the right address? Were all the injured cops shot by the homeowner, or (as happens too often), shot by their own colleagues?
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IMHO the unfortunate couple killed by the police were the victims of a successful SWATTING.
Well gee, this is most interesting.
The police and their union protectors should be crucified - along with all city politicians who tolerated them.
When officers showed up, they didn’t see any suspicious activity, but stopped a passerby to ask if she’d called 911. She hadn’t, but - according to what Acevedo told reporters at a Jan. 31 press conference - the woman allegedly turned back to her phone call and said, “Hey the police are at the dope house.”
The peasants need to fortify their entrance doors with bullet-resistant panels that can be easily raised or lowered so that SWATkillers can’t get in to wreak havoc and commit murder.
for later
“IMHO the unfortunate couple killed by the police were the victims of a successful SWATTING.”
If true, that still doesn’t excuse the police, in my opinion. Particularly as we’re not talking about an emergency with immediately threat to anyone’s life. Unlike the cases where people have been SWATTED with 911 being informed that shots were fired, or people were dying. It’s also time that anyone SWATTING be held responsible for what results from their actions.
The first thing I thought, after reading the sentence, was that it sounded like a black expression that derives from the fact that a basketball game starts with a “jump ball.”
A jump is the start of things...
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