wrong house...
Posted on 02/07/2019 2:22:52 PM PST by slumber1
HOUSTON — A veteran Houston police narcotics detective has been temporarily relieved of duty due to ongoing questions about his role in last week’s drug search warrant that ended in a deadly shootout between two suspects and police. A department spokesperson confirmed that the senior police officer, who joined the department in 1996, must temporarily surrender his badge pending the outcome of an internal affairs investigation. “The department has made the decision to relieve the officer of duty while a thorough investigation continues,” the Houston Police Officers Union said in a written statement.
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* this is my shocked face *
I am surprised. I expected this one to be swept under the rug.
HPD in CYA mode.
HPD officer connected to deadly raid, shootout relieved of duty (raid where 5 cops shot)
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3726120/posts
You can rest assured that it will be. Everyone involved gets a paid vacation, then back to business as usual.
Too bad the canine wasn’t armed and trained to shoot back.
Where did you find “anonymous tip” in that article? I read they conducted a controlled buy of heroin from the house.
wrong house...
have we even found out who shot who yet?....it would not be the first time a swat team ahs shot eachother through a house...
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.”
A dirty cop.
So, he’s on paid vacation?
Where did you find “anonymous tip” in that article? I read they conducted a controlled buy of heroin from the house.
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.
They cite a 911 call made Jan. 8 from an anonymous woman who claimed her daughter was doing drugs inside the home with a large number of weapons inside.
Interesting that they suspended this officer, and only this officer.
I would like to know if the Officers were wearing their bullet proof vest? Since it was reported that there were many guns inside. If they weren’t. Why weren’t they?
Yes, it will be interesting to see if some of the uh... ardent supporters, plural, will come back to objectively revisit the subject.
Not that we'd want to single out anyone from Texas or anything like that...
Time will tell, though. No need for needless acrimony on the subject... it will play out in time. It would see to be a job for the Texas Rangers.
Four. Fifth guy blew his nee out.
100%
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