Posted on 02/20/2019 4:58:45 AM PST by marktwain
The lead investigator and long term Houston Police Department undercover narcotics Officer Gerald Goines lied to obtain a no-knock warrant. The no-knock warrant lead to the death of a middle-aged couple, their dog, and the wounding of four officers, at 7815 Harding Street on 28 January 2019. From abc13.com:
The search warrant clearly shows the initial information used to obtain the no-knock search warrant involved a number of lies.
In the original warrant obtained on Jan. 28, the lead case agent, Officer Gerald Goines, wrote that a confidential informant bought heroin at the house the day before the drug raid. The informant also allegedly saw heroin and a weapon, which appeared to be a 9mm handgun, as he was buying the suspected drugs at the house.
In that warrant, the informant allegedly returned to Goines with a brown powder substance, telling him that it was called “boy,” which is slang for heroin. The confidential informant also said the substance he allegedly bought at the home was packed in a large quantity of plastic baggies.
The Houston no-knock raid was characterized as an ambush by drug dealers. The evidence did not support that conclusion.
The two homeowners killed had no criminal record. Dennis Tuttle was a Navy veteran. His wife, Rhogena Nicholas, was a supporter of President Trump. They had been married for 20 years and lived in their modest home in Houston for the same 20 years.
The gun battle started when police broke
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
Did he need another raid?
Was he "doing a favor" for someone else?
He had to have a reason for the deception. It took considerable effort.
The comments are interesting. If the victims had been black, this would be on the news 24/7.
When a crime is committed (lying on a warrant or robbing a store) and your buddy or the occupant of the home or business gets killed in the process as a result of your crime, you can be held culpable.
The mayor is black. The city is infested with rats at every level of government. It won’t make the national news cycle.
Officer Gerald Goines should do well in prison. /s
Murder by cop and yet no one will face any charges. The criminal politicians and criminal judges and criminal police captain and police leaders will protect the cops to the end.
I have no faith in government anymore. It is mostly populated with unethical people.
JoMa
>>The gun battle started when police broke
Who fired the 357? It was not recovered at the scene. Was the gun battle simply friendly fire from caffinated plainclothes cops?
the city lied in the immediate wake of the shooting saying that neighbors applauded the raid.
The coverup has been in place since day 1.
As with Jussie’s hoax, the lies were falling apart the first day.
Read more: https://www.ammoland.com/2019/02/houston-cop-lied-for-warrant-married-couple-killed-4-police-wounded/#ixzz5g4oPCgOG Under Creative Commons License: Attribution Follow us: @Ammoland on Twitter | Ammoland on Facebook As drugs were lied about (and small quantities were found in the lying officer's vehicle), can we trust the drugs found at the house, in two small baggies, were not planted by an officer, to cover the botched raid?
Precisely what I said when this first went down. I hope that if one of the cops planted drugs to cover for the botched raid, that they spend quality time at the State's expense.
Now expand that to the “russiagate” witchhunt by the DNC-WashPoo-FIB-CYA et al, it too was based on a fraudulent application which the media refuses to report...
The point is these people are empowered by a phony “Drug War” to violate the liberties, property and lives of citizens without Due Process.
If you want this to stop, you want the Drug War to stop.
With the KNOWN and AMITTED lie on the application and the unrelated drugs in the officer’s car, all cases he may have touched have been compromised and the convictions are cast in doubt.
Same as when the HPD crime lab was deliberately faking DWI bloodtest results to get convictions.
Has he been promoted to Chief of Detectives yet?
The focus of the reports in the wake of the raid was “guns in private hands are bad”.
The war being waged is anti-gun, not anti-drug.
And an earlier Houston “Republican” DA tried to infringe on state gun rights saying he didn’t care and would challenge it to the state supreme court if necessary...
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/DA-warns-handgun-law-won-t-relax-enforcement-1918787.php
2005
AUSTIN - Motorists arrested for carrying pistols in their cars without a concealed handgun license will continue to be prosecuted in Houston, despite a new law that purports to give them a legal defense, Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal said Monday.
...The law, House Bill 823, was supported by the National Rifle Association and the American Civil Liberties Union and opposed by various law-enforcement groups...
If they had drugs ready to plant, it indicates premeditation.
Forget "quality time at the State's expense", they deserve the gas chamber.
Officer Goines has been with the Houston Police Department for 34 years.
It appears nearly all of that time has been spent as an undercover narcotics officer.
He has an ongoing case where a 63-year-old man has been declaring his innocence for years, at great expense, and with witnesses.
How many undercover officers has Officer Goines trained? The first five people into the house at 7815 Harding were all undercover narcotics officers. Hmmmm.
“Republican” means nothing to me with or without quotes.
Pretending to defend guns and allowing suprise raids, automatic traffic stops and a federal government to declare a phony “war” against drugs (whatever those are supposed to be).
No, support of the Second Amendment is not enough:
-Government and Police must be reined in, by power of law and the purse.
I spent four months in Houston in ‘09, from March through June. Hated it.
Topping it all off, the last week I was there, I had a late dinner from a BBQ joint, just before they closed. Turned out the beef ribs were bad.
I barfed for four days. The motel trash can was filled half way with barf.
Hmm, is your trash can half empty, or half full?
Paid Police-hit.
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