Posted on 11/13/2013 9:01:44 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
For only the second time in 17 years, a Dallas County, Tex., grand jury has indicted a police officer for wrongly killing a suspect in the line of duty. Patrick Tuter is being held on an unusually high $100,000 bail after his indictment for manslaughter in the death of 25-year-old Michael Vincent Allen on August 31 of last year.
Prosecutors said they did not consider the fired Garland police officer a threat to flee, and were prepared to let bail go as low as $10,000. But Judge Lena Levario said that in her view, Tuter (pictured) posed a threat to public safety and needed to be locked up. Typical bail in manslaughter cases is about $25,000, the Dallas Morning News reported.
If he makes bail, Tuter is not allowed to hold any job that requires him to use a weapon.
From the facts of the case, Tuter appears not only trigger-happy, but also an inaccurate shot. He is accused of killing Allen, who was unarmed, after a half-hour chase during which speeds hit 100 miles per hour along a North Dallas freeway, ending up with Allen cornered in cul-de-sac in Mesquite.
According to one eyewitness to the shooting, Allen’s white GMC pickup was trapped between two cop cars. That’s when Tuter, according to a witness, shouted for Allen to get out of the truck but then without waiting more than a few seconds, opened fire.
He unloaded 41 rounds, pausing at least once to reload despite taking no return fire from Allen who was not in possession of a firearm. Three of those shots hit Allen, killing him. But 38 of Tuter’s shots missed their target.
The other officer at the scene fired no shots and actually took cover behind his squad car as Tuter continued to pump bullets at the immobilized pickup truck.
The chase began when Tuter noticed the pickup, which had been involved in a chase in nearby Sachse a few mights before.
Tuter crashed his vehicle into the pickup before firing. Allen, the father of one, died without getting out of the driver’s seat. Originally, police claimed that Allen rammed Tuter’s vehicle. But dashboard cam video showed that the reverse was actually the case.
“More and more, we’re learning that the account given by the police officer is not what actually occurred,” said Don Tittle, a lawyer who represents Allen’s family in a civil suit against Tuter for wrongful death. “That should be pretty alarming. It should certainly cause you to wonder in cases where there’s no video at all.”
Tuter faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted on the manslaughter charge.
Speaking of vanishing...
How’s that butt? Lightning hurt much? I sure hope so, asshat.
:)
I don’t know when or where Alaska Asshat (what an utterly vile and arrogant snidely jerk) got the ZOT, but here is the announcement:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3090941/posts?page=69#69
Sometimes bad things happen to bad people.
Ah thanks.
That was one well deserved righteous zot!
The guy was quite a snide twerp.
At least if he retreads, his style will give him away instantly to all the people he insulted and mocked.
Yes, they do. There is justice in Karma.
You are being to nice!! A ‘snide twerp’ is way to kind a description of that arrogant, conceited jerk. He went out of his way to try to belittle every FReeper that had the nerve(!) to call him out on his idiot support of any/all/every LEO....no matter WHAT type of crime that LEO might have been a part of. The LEO’s were NEVER in the wrong according to his warped outlook. When we voiced support for an LEO that was involved with some sort of ‘good deed’, (as many are/do. There are a lot of LEO’s that are wonderful men and women who act totally professional), he would try to twist that around to some sort of a negative. Then his long time, constant MO was to ask snotty questions in response to any FReepers comments like FReepers were on some sort of trial! Of course everyone saw thru that and wouldn’t fall for his B/S then he would get pouty and then ‘leave a puddle’ on his floor and slink off. Then I guess he put up some racist stuff and ZOT...that was that. Will he be allowed back to FR? I do not know, but based on his racist, (or so I heard, I did not read the post before it was removed but it’s content was told to me by another FReeper who had read it), posting I would think not. (Boss Jim and the Mods do not tolerate openly racist crap, and they never should. That is the sort of stuff the DUmp is famous for!!!), We will see I guess! Stay safe TOL!!!!
Why, thank you, sir. Not too many people accuse me of being too nice.
I don’t want to go too far over the top when berating a zottee and dancing in its guts and ashes.
This one was particularly annoying, inconsistent, and just plain wrong.
Maybe I should have brought out the big guns, but then I get a rash for being mean. Sigh...
NO profanity, NO personal attacks, NO racism or violence in posts. Does that have any meaning to you?
Oh, just suspended, huh?
Well, it didn’t have any meaning to you, and that is why you got slapped down.
You might want to temper your rhetoric so that you will no longer be universally hated.
The taunting that I posted to you is de rigueur after a zot. Can’t take the heat? Get out of the kitchen.
So vulgar, profane petty, inane, petulant, childish and totally uncalled for attacks on a longtime FR member for having a different opinion is acceptable? How does that square with this?
NO profanity, NO personal attacks, NO racism or violence in posts.
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