Posted on 11/10/2019 5:59:18 AM PST by abb
A forensics expert hired by the relatives of a man shot in his home during a botched drug raid by Houston police in January determined he was shot in the back, the Houston Chronicle reported.
Investigator Mike Maloney said Wednesday that Dennis Tuttle was shot three or four times in the back during the raid, probably while retreating to the rear of his house on Harding Street in Houston after initially being shot by officers near the front of the home.
At least one shot traveled up his body, through his chest and lodged in his head, probably inflicted while he was lying on the ground, Maloney said.
Tuttle and his wife, Rhogena Nicholas, were shot and killed by officers who raided the house looking for drugs. Officers entered the home without knocking, expecting to find a heroin den. Instead, they uncovered small amounts of cocaine and marijuana.
Maloney initially released some findings in July that suggested police may have fired into the house without being able to see inside of it and questioned if Tuttle ever fired back. He said Wednesday that his examination suggests that officers may have been at the doorway and were able to see inside the house when they fired the rounds that killed Tuttle, the Chronicle reported.
Attorney Mike Doyle, who is representing the Nicholas family as it plans a lawsuit, said the evidence uncovered by Maloney contradicts what Houston police are reporting.
“There’s every indication that the story they gave about what happened is not true,” he told the newspaper. “Everybody is ignoring what happened at the scene, because they don’t have this.”
Police Chief Art Acevedo would not comment due to the pending investigation, but Houston Police Officers’ President Joe Gamaldi said he believes what police investigators are saying.
“I would trust a report from the Houston Forensic Science Center, the Texas Rangers or the Houston Police Department,” Gamaldi told the Chronicle, “not a report from a private entity that is hired by future plaintiffs.”
Officer Gerald Goines is accused of lying to get the warrant for the raid and was later charged with felony murder in the case. His partner, Houston Police Officer Steven Bryant, faces a charge of tampering with a government record.
Goines needs to spend the rest of his life in prison with a tattoo across his forehead stating he was once a cop.
It's sad that this is so laughable. Yes, believe the HPD that murdered, lied, falsified evidence and attempted to plant evidence. Not ONE dirty cop, but an entire team of cops who had apparently been getting away with it for years. And the "Texas Rangers"? The same ones who testified under oath that a cop who murdered an unarmed man in his own apartment while eating a bowl of ice cream "committed no crime" and "should not have been charged"? Police have squandered any credibility they once had when it comes to investigating their own officers. It's NOT the 5% of "bad cops" that are the problem. It's the 95% of "good cops" that cover for them.
The Police Chief, Art Acevedo, is a member of this:
http://lawenforcementleaders.org/members/
Which is mostly comprised of current and former - mostly former - police chiefs, attorneys, etc.. Three former Seattle Police Chiefs are members, and many others suspect in several problematic situations. One appears to be the current head of the Border Patrol. One may be able to predict behavior of these law enforcement heads after studying the list.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3724357/posts#1
Original bootlickers can be read on this thread. Even when it became obvious, there were multiple boot shiners on that thread.
That said, I hate that I don’t know if I really trust them anymore.
I have to think about it now and hope for the best for the dogs and me, too, if I should ever need to call them.
I don’t see what these poor people did to deserve to die in a gunfight with police in their own home.
I hope the punishment for their killers is excessively harsh in every way possible, but unfortunately it will be the taxpayers who pay all of those bills.
Problem solved.
Seems to me that we don’t need to be robbed, raped, beaten , and murdered by the same people who are supposed to stop criminals.
I'm not sure what you're saying here - how is this not part of the WOD?
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