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DA threatens to subpoena police for names of informants behind deadly Harding Street drug raid
Houston Chronicle ^ | Thursday, June 20, 2019 | St. John Barned-Smith and Keri Blakinger

Posted on 06/22/2019 4:02:59 PM PDT by abb

Harris County prosecutors are threatening to issue grand jury subpoenas to the Houston Police Department for details about confidential informants used by narcotics officers at the center of the botched Harding Street drug raid in January that ended with two residents dead and five officers injured.

After police failed to fulfill a previous request for the information in May, Harris County Assistant District Attorney Natasha Sinclair sent a one-page letter Thursday demanding HPD turn over a trove of information relating to the bust, including the identities of informants used by Squad 15 since 2014, the names of those who signed off on informant payments and details about alleged buys.

The demand letter comes amid escalating tensions between police and Harris County prosecutors and suggests that the police department has dragged its feet in providing records despite promises from Chief Art Acevedo for an open and transparent investigation.

The letter also indicates the DA's office may be conducting a wider review than the internal investigation by HPD and a readiness to involve a grand jury in the process.

Acevedo responded hours later Thursday to the letter with a statement saying police had turned over their investigation into the shooting in mid-May and pledged to continue to work with prosecutors.

The district attorney's office, however maintains that the requested records about Squad 15 are relevant to their probe of the failed raid.

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bootlickers; donutwatch; goines; houston; jackbootlickers; jbt; police; policestate; texas; warondrugs; wod
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1 posted on 06/22/2019 4:02:59 PM PDT by abb
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2 posted on 06/22/2019 4:03:51 PM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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I’m wondering if the consumer quantities of drugs found were planted by the cops. After this cluster****, it wouldn’t surprise me if they had to do something to avoid severe disciplinary action, up to, and including, criminal prosecution.


3 posted on 06/22/2019 4:07:04 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: abb

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6163790-DA-s-letter-to-HPD-on-Harding-Street-raid.html


4 posted on 06/22/2019 4:08:45 PM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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Fire Arthur the Asshole.


5 posted on 06/22/2019 4:11:13 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: abb

I smell a DA that is looking to make a name for himself at the expense of law enforcement in order to seek higher office. An investigation, sure, but six years of records?


6 posted on 06/22/2019 4:11:39 PM PDT by oldbrowser (The government did not create the people. The people created the government..)
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HPD brought it on themselves. All they had to do was tell the truth from the getgo, but they chose the coverup route.


7 posted on 06/22/2019 4:12:44 PM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: oldbrowser

“An investigation, sure, but six years of records?”

Probing a pattern of perfidy?


8 posted on 06/22/2019 4:17:59 PM PDT by oldvirginian (Winning isn't everything, it's the ONLY thing)
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9 posted on 06/22/2019 4:18:51 PM PDT by null and void (Stamp out philately!)
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I certainly hope no Muslim terrorists were profiled in that sweep. You know just because they blew up some people with bombs.

We must not call it “Islamic terrorism”.

After all, 09/11/2001 was where “some people did something”. /Democrat Ilhan Omar


10 posted on 06/22/2019 4:26:39 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Time to fire Art!


11 posted on 06/22/2019 4:40:35 PM PDT by Lockbox
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To: oldbrowser

I’d wager it means they have a reason to suspect it’s been going on at least that long. Perhaps since the hire or promotion of a certain key individual?


12 posted on 06/22/2019 4:40:56 PM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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To: Zhang Fei

“the raid itself only turned up a small amount of cocaine and marijuana — but none of the heroin police expected to find”

If the toxicology is negative then something is very wrong.


13 posted on 06/22/2019 5:09:07 PM PDT by the_daug
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This is obviously a screw up and a cover up. Odds are the couple were misidentified, totally innocent or any wrongdoing, the cop in charge lied to get the warrant, the cops went in like D-Day and killed the occupants, and any drugs found were planted by the cops. This whole thing stinks. Read Sidney Powell’s book “Licensed to Lie” for a sense of just how corrupt the Houston Police Department is.


14 posted on 06/22/2019 5:20:44 PM PDT by myerson
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I smell a DA that is looking to make a name for himself at the expense of law enforcement in order to seek higher office.

I smell a bootlicker that is willing to go along with coverups of years of criminal misconduct by dirty cops.

15 posted on 06/22/2019 5:31:47 PM PDT by PAR35
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A Hummer, with someone in the gunner’s turret aiming a rifle at the person with the camera?

And they wonder why people don’t like them.


16 posted on 06/22/2019 5:36:24 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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I smell a bootlicker that is willing to go along with coverups of years of criminal misconduct by dirty cops.

Oh come on, that's nothing. There were people on here that defended the murder of Daniel Shaver. Remember the female cop that entered the wrong apartment and shot the real tenant? People on here defended what she did.

There are sadly some people on here that will defend everything the police do, no matter how morally wrong, or outright illegal it is.

17 posted on 06/22/2019 5:41:45 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: wastedyears

Absolutely no idea.


18 posted on 06/22/2019 5:42:32 PM PDT by null and void (Stamp out philately!)
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To: wastedyears
Remember Alaska Wolf? There's a reason his nick is the very first screen name on the JBT ping list. More than that, he is the reason there even is a JBT ping list.
19 posted on 06/22/2019 5:45:37 PM PDT by null and void (Stamp out philately!)
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To: myerson

I seen the Autopsy reports. Better than even money the wounded police were from friendly fire.


20 posted on 06/22/2019 5:48:43 PM PDT by the_daug
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