The friends and family of Dennis and Rhogena Tuttle are sadly not able to share this news with the deceased couple.
“And if they’re so dangerous, why not wait until they come out of the house?”
3 needless deaths too late f___head.
The impediment to cleaning up law enforcement is that when an officer is found guilty of misconduct, the tax payers and not the officer are on the hook for any costs. The officer may lose their job, but the tax payer foots the bill.
So what can we do to fix this situation? Well as my old First Sergeant used to say; “Don’t complain unless you have a solution to the problem.” Well here is my idea.
Any and all monetary damages awarded to a plaintiff as a result of the actions of law enforcement officers, are to ONLY come from the offending departments or organizations pension fund.
Only when it hits home personally by weakening every officers retirement, will the good ones begin to turn in the bad ones. In time, department psychologists and training officers will do a better job of weeding out the nut jobs. Senior staff will do a better job of triple checking addresses before conducting a “no-knock” late night call to a suspect’s home. Officers will advise their partners that a course of action is not advised, rather than just going along.
And once this has happened, law enforcement might begin to gain some of the mountain of trust and respect that they have lost in past few years.
hope so. there will almost certainly be more dead officers (a tragic but obvious outcome)...if they try that kind of mindless kraptrick hereabouts
This case has many parallels with the Jussie Smollett case. The initial story of the corrupt Houston cops painted themselves as righteous and heroic. As more came out they were exposed as neither righteous nor heroic.
https://abc13.com/hpd-chief-recalls-struggle-that-left-suspects-dead-officers-shot/5110369/
He knows his department is gonna get its ass sued off.
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any police chief that sends (or lets) his officers in without knocking....is responsible for whatever happens to them.
thank heaven at least this police chief is stopping this insane dangerous practice!
any police chief that sends (or lets) his officers in without knocking....is responsible for whatever happens to them.
thank heaven at least this police chief is stopping this insane dangerous practice!
I agree use of these warrants needs to be very limited. The first reaction of many homeowners on being invaded without warning is to defend oneself.
God Almighty. This story makes me sick. So much so wrong in so many ways.
The militarization of the police and no-knock warrants is evidence that our “public servants” consider themselves our masters and an occupying force trying to tame the natives. If our government keeps sanctioning these knock warrants more good people are going to die on both sides.
If you actually want to capture criminals, the tap on the shoulder is far more effective than the charge with all guns blazing.
Many police departments have figured out ways to get suspects to come voluntarily to the police station, to ‘sort out a problem’. They’re not usually the brightest bunch.
If you live in Texas. Contact your Texas state congressmen and senators and ask them to support legislation banning the use of no knock warrants. It's way past time to end this unconstitutional practice.
If you live in Texas contact the Texas state attorney general office, Ken Paxton and urge them to conduct a full independent investigation. We must have accountability for the death of these two innocent people.
We were sitting around talking one day and the subject of these kinds of police raids came up. He said, "I'll shoot through the door if they ever try that sh*t at my house. I won't give 'em a chance to identify themselves. My house is my castle."
I was shocked that he would seriously say such a thing. But living long enough to see how some out of control swat teams, drug task forces and all these other special kitty wanna be "operators" kill people, pets and get away with it again and again, I'm seeing where he was coming from.
This is much better than just ignoring the problem as I see some police forces do on various and similar situations.
I am armed to the teeth. If you break down my door I have absolutely no idea who you are and will fight for my life and my beloved wife. If you are the cops and need to arrest me just wait near my mailbox, I will have a cup of coffee in one hand and if my wife is not around a cigar in the other hand. It would be a very easy arrest. I wonder if the cops would let me finish my cigar and cup of coffee?
It is very refreshing to hear a police chief speaking logically with common sense.
Hey boot licker.
Because there is a type of cop that just love the "dynamic entry"?
Lighting up some perps is just gratis.
City gets sued, Acevedo keeps his job (prick that he is), crooked cop forced to retire yet retains pension. Nothing to see here......