Posted on 01/31/2014 4:02:45 PM PST by Altariel
FORT WORTH, Texas -- A Fort Worth police officer will not face charges for fatally shooting a 72-year-old Texas homeowner while investigating a burglary alarm at the wrong house, a Tarrant County jury decided Wednesday.
The decision to "no-bill" R.A. "Alex" Hoeppner in the death of Jerry Waller came a week after prosecutors began presenting the case to the grand jury.
Waller died May 28 after being shot multiple times by Hoeppner as the officer and a partner searched for a possible burglary suspect after being dispatched to a burglary alarm call across the street.
Family members have said Waller, suspecting a prowler was outside, grabbed his gun and had gone to investigate when he was shot.
**** "I think the community can rest assured that this was the correct decision and Hoeppner is a fine young officer," Lane added. "He has been back at work and he will continue to protect and serve the people of Fort Worth."
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Previous thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3117499/posts?q=1&;page=1
Evidently. You have it from the horse’s...mouth. I would use another word but..
Of course. Graduates of the Fullerton Police Academy are always innocent of murder.
Entering someone’s home without their permission should be rare and when you have a warrant one should be extremely careful to be at the right address.
Anytime someone mistakenly enters the wrong house, they should automatically be at fault for anything which happens unless there is unusually strong proof that they were innocent.
Didn’t they say that 007 had a license to kill, looks like every cop in America has that same license. Notice that the only time a cop can hit his target is when it is an innocent man?
/johnny
The police aren’t De even going to have a fake investigation of itself?
I thought he killed an innocent man on his own property. Guess I was wrong.
I read it happened inside the garage where the coroner found him. Cops removed the brass before investigators showed up.
here is your chance to get here early wolfie.
>> “Hoeppner is a fine young officer,” Lane added. “He has been back at work and he will continue to protect and serve the people of Fort Worth.”
Whether they like it or not.
Well, I guess that incompetence and idiocy are not crimes.
Serve the people of Fort Worth? He is out there killing them.
Waller’s relatives have accused police of misrepresenting the facts, stating that
Waller had never even stepped out of his garage when he was shot multiple times just
feet from his kitchen door.
“He was shot multiple times in the chest only a few steps away from the doorway to his kitchen,” Waller’s son, Chris Waller, told the Star-Tel
egram the day after the shooting.
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/01/29/5524097/grand-jury-declines-to-indict.html#storylink=cpy
He obviously forgot the third step!
COWER — There is no redress for any “wrong” done to you: this is because the action of a government agent is always right, his judgment correct, and his intellect unsurpassed.
They found a loophole to kill and they enjoy it.
It's always been a small comfort to imagine there still being somewhere the young'uns could bug out to if/when the need arose . . . d:^(
I would be careful, the Lord knows the difference.
A police officer cannot be guilty of anything in his relationships with the non police population. He is given the power of life and death at his whim over ALL non politically connected non police people.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.