“Any police department (or university faculty, or military unit, etc.) is only as good as the worst psycho they tolerate.” ~ H/T RedStateRocker
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.
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“Any police department (or university faculty, or military unit, etc.) is only as good as the worst psycho they tolerate.” ~ H/T RedStateRocker
HPD party ping
We’re not Americanizing Mexicans:
We’re Mexicanizing Americans.
Yeah, looking for drugs to steal and sell later.
>War on drugs.
Those damn (L) again.
It’s OK, there’s some Fascism\anti-Constitutional things the (R)N(C) just L-O-V-E-S
No,this is NOT the war on drugs. This is why people should no longer live in Democrat sh!thole cities.
Absolutely not. The problem is/was will be no-knock assaults on the private property of citizens.
Everything in this case smacks of police conspiracy, failure or intentional misleading statements of fact, judges assuming cops are telling the truth, CIs who are already suspect ( ought to require two or three witnesses to stablish any fact, as in the Bible).
Once the fireworks start, everything and everybody is expendable under this police paradigm.
even if there were illegal controlled substances truly found at this home, it has little to do with your meme of the WOD. I am of the opinion that the cops likely knew they screwed up big time and made certain there were suspicious things “found” to throw off the dogs of truth. Problem is, just as forensics do in criminals, it also does in the cops ( but I repeat myself in this case, as the evidence is clearly showing).
For many years Goines apparently has been on the take, working his own gig. TX/Feds really ought to be looking closely at his finances.
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.
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Who do these cops think they are, the FBI?
In order for the real drug houses to stay in business and continue to pay bribes to the various law enforcement and investigation agencies, the dealers have CI’s roll over on other low-end users.
Was a CNN Truck parked across the Street waiting for the Police to show up?
Never mind, wrong Raid. I was thinking of Roger Stone.
That’s part of the War on Trump.
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The Houston police officer at the center of the botched drug raid has been shot twice before. The facts of one of those shootings changed dramatically in the days after it.
Senior Officer Gerald Goines, 54, was shot in 1992 and 1997.
In 1992, Houston police said Goines had just completed a narcotics transaction when he stopped to urinate on a tree. The homeowner, who was worried about burglars, walked outside and spoke to Goines. Moments later, police said at the time, he returned with a pistol. Goines was shot in the jaw.
In 1997, what was first believed to be a narcotics bust turned out to be a deadly case of road rage on the Southwest Freeway, according to police. Days after the shooting that left Goines injured and another man, Reginald Dorsey, dead, police said the two were competing for space on the freeway. Dorsey pulled out a gun. Both men fired. Goines was shot in the arm and abdomen.
IIRC....
No drugs found at the property, but drugs found in lead thug cops car that were not registered with HPD. Probably intended to be planted, but the lead cop was shot and transported to the hospital never getting the chance for the “throw down”.
His warrant also claimed firearms in the home.
119 consecutive times he claimed that in the previous 119 consecutive obvious raids, but none found each time.
BAD NEWS COP
hope he enjoys his time in lock up with those he set up previously
Facts are helpful.
So, it sounds like they were just doing frame-up raids to boost their stats. I wonder what their selection criteria were.
Incidents like this definitely make generally cop-friendly people suspicious when they have to interact with police themselves.
This travesty took place back in January. At the time the officer’s attorney said his client — Gerald Goines — was going to retire from the force (no doubt with a ridiculously generous pension). This same officer has been involved in several shootings, one of which was simply a violent road rage incident which he tried to pass off as a drug deal gone wrong in the course of a narcotics investigation. Over a thousand narcotics cases are now being re-investigated because of this thuggish officer — no doubt an Affirmative Action hire — who is no better than the criminals he dealt with. His badge gave him immunity.
Another Simon says looser.
What are the chances of that happening in Houston drug scene raids? A consecutive 0 out of 119 gun finds? In Texas?
LOL!, Facts don't change, the reported facts might.
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