Drug Dealer Ambush or Defense Against Home Invasion?
Diry from de jump.
I find this "jump" business suspicious.
Who jumped off of what.. or jumped onto who?
Did they jump on a bed or out of an airplane or what?
We really need some clarity on this "jump" business.
According to three law enforcement sources, one focus of the investigation is about the validity of a purported controlled buy of suspected heroin in the 7800 block of Harding Street in southeast Houston. In a search warrant affidavit, the case agent wrote that a confidential informant purchased a brown powder substance known as “boy,” the street term for heroin, on Jan. 27.
“...we will leave no stone unturned to determine the good, the bad and the ugly...”
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Sadly, I suspect there is little besides bad and ugly about this “operation”. The Houston PD needs to be entirely honest with this investigation.
The official story smells and raises more questions than it answers. Why was no “black tar” heroin found in this den of supposedly very dangerous drug dealers (well, I assume they were very dangerous and an immediate threat based on the choice to do this kind of raid)? Were the cops even at the right address? Were all the injured cops shot by the homeowner, or (as happens too often), shot by their own colleagues?
Well gee, this is most interesting.
When officers showed up, they didn’t see any suspicious activity, but stopped a passerby to ask if she’d called 911. She hadn’t, but - according to what Acevedo told reporters at a Jan. 31 press conference - the woman allegedly turned back to her phone call and said, “Hey the police are at the dope house.”
for later
Have they released the body cam video? Then again, I read a report they did not utilized body cameras.
The a-hole media turned it into a racial thing.
No body cams = dirty cops.
No audio = coverup of dirty cops.
Maybe if they questioned the suspects they were serving the warrant on....oh wait. Nevermind.
Houston can’t afford Bullhorns?
Maybe dirty cops ... I don’t know.
But one thing that I’m certain of is that one or more of the officers were shot by a cop rather than by the resident.
The resident had a .357 revolver (instead of the 9mm referenced in the warrant.) It is extremely unlikely that his marksmanship was so good that, under the stress of a home invasion with live fire initiated by the invaders, five out of his five shots struck the invading officers. A video of the house after the raid shows about ten bullet holes next to the front door, which the narrator says are from the outside into the house. I don’t know whether that verbal description on the video is correct, but it seems to be the likely cause of several officers’ injuries.
The 9mm wasn’t in the house. The heroin wasn’t in the house. Significant amounts of cash weren’t in the house. The house did not have a surveillance system. Just two dead bodies, a 50-something year-old Navy vet with no police record and his wife.
Who knows? I sure don’t trust the would-be gun-grabbing police chief.
Diry Cops are far better than the notorious Dairy Cops.
According to this, both were quiet people and Trump supporters, no criminal records.
https://heavy.com/news/2019/01/dennis-tuttle-rhogena-nicholas/
I see some ardent supporters of this raid are strangely missing from this thread.....
I will leave my thoughts from the original raid thread here.
“No knock warrants are dangerous, of dubious constitutionality (not legal for this instance until 1995), and should only be reserved for the most severe cases. In ‘81 only 3000 no knock warrants were signed. In ‘05 alone 50,000 no knock warrants were signed and carried out. A number which has certainly grown since then.
I personally do not care about the people in question, nor this particular raid in general. I care about the rights of my fellow Americans, and the seemingly constant eroding of those rights under the guise of safety, or for our own good, or for the children. I reject those arguments outright.”
And this quote, which I found somewhere (not sure of the author).
“Police-state style assault forces being used to violently enter a persons residence when that person is not actively engaged in violent acts are incompatible with life in a free society.
As it is better a hundred guilty go free than one innocent person be imprisoned. So too is it better a hundred guilty destroy evidence of their guilt than one innocent person’s life be risked or worse ended by an extremely violent breach of the peace initiated by agents of the State.”
Update
It’s not clear what role the officer played in the Jan. 28 bust at 7815 Harding, but law enforcement sources said his suspension comes amid a probe centered on questions over whether the sworn affidavit used to justify the no-knock warrant may have contained false information.