Posted on 02/14/2019 6:45:02 AM PST by marktwain
The Houston Police Department has released the inventory of items seized during the execution of the no-knock raid where 59-year-old Dennis Tuttle and his wife, 58-year-old Rhogena Nicholas were shot and killed. The raid occurred on January 28, 2019.
The married couple of 20 years died in a gun battle with police where four officers were wounded, and one was injured while taking cover.
The couple had no criminal records. They had occupied the house for 20 years. Rhogena was as a supporter of President Trump. Dennis was a Navy veteran.
The gun battle started when the police broke down their door and shot their dog. The wife, Rhogena, was unarmed when killed. Police claim she was going for a shotgun held by a wounded officer.
There were no body cameras worn on the raid. Neighbor's surveillance video was taken by the police.
The guns listed are unremarkable in every way. They are:
Search Warrant A 20 gauge shotgun is listed as a “Beretta ALS.” I have not found a Beretta of that model, but
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
At some point it has become data worthy. Look on the net for dogs killed by police for some info.
Here’s one example:
Cops in this country kill so many dogs each year that a specialist at the
Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) community-oriented program services office says
it has become an “epidemic.” The DOJ estimates that around 25 to 30 dogs are killed
by cops every day, with some numbers as high as 10,000 per year. The totals could,
in fact, be higher, since most police agencies do not formally track officer-involved
shootings involving animals.
In Detroit, cops killed at least 25 dogs in 2015 and 21 before the first half of
2016. According to police records, two detectives had killed at least 100 dogs
between them over the course of their careers. Meanwhile Metro Atlanta cops kill
on average 50 dogs per year, and a Buffalo, New York, news channel investigation
found that police there killed 92 dogs over three years, with one officer having
killed 26 himself.
Where are the “good cops” turning over the “bad cops?” They could do a lot of good for the whole country if they would tear down their Blue Wall of Silence.
Remember the saracen cop that fired his weapon right in front of his partner’s face, in the car, murdering an Australian woman? Why didn’t the partner say anything? Maybe he did, and it wasn’t disclosed, but we don’t know that.
It used to be that SWAT teams were dedicated tactical response personnel. They operated under very aggressive, confrontational high-risk conditions. They were not normal beat cops. Now the normal cops do double duty as tactical response and they wonder why the public is distrustful and even hostile to them.
If the quantities are small enough to flush, there is no justification for a no-knock warrant.
“If the quantities are small enough to flush, there is no justification for a no-knock warrant.”
Even if the quantities were great, what are they going to do with it? It has to come in or go out at some point.
That is NOT a stupid comment!!!
It is a horrifyingly ACCURATE comment!!!!
Cops were not militarized then at all
Or a CZ which looks similar
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised......the 70s ...lol
Simple mistake, They thought the House belonged to a guy who used to work for Trump.
I have limited but profound experience in this sort of police action
And these observations differ from what I’ve observed in real time
No tapes of the rats buy
No video of the buy....everybody today has a key fob camera and recorder....that’s what they use
No bodycams
No uniformed cops in the front of the raid
Immediate CYA in aftermath
Who knows except if cops handled it differently woulda been less killing likely
And no heroin yet it’s supposedly be a heroin house
And none of the big handguns the rat described
Something is amiss here no question
Same thing with younger Williamson county TN deputies
The most over policed (wholly unneeded) county in America
They are usually on the interstates looking for $$$$ in profile stops
The militarization of law enforcement here way precedes the War on Terror era
It’s borne of the drug war and urban blight
My guess
I first noticed it early 90s
It can be field tested immediately close enough
Toss a pinch in the vial solution and stick the strip in
Plus any cop knows if it smells like coke
Heroin has little smell
What were they looking for, drugs? And they found 1.5 grams of possible cocaine and 18 grams of marijuana?!?
Not even enough to charge someone with intent to distribute, probably not even enough for felony possession in most states. This was the supposed crime that justified an emergency “no knock warrant” to put the suspects’, officers’, and neighbors’ lives in immediate jeopardy?
Nice tight summation.
My heart breaks too often nowadays.
“I think in this case the officer probably relied on an unreliable informant.”
Yah think? Most informants are by nature unreliable, since most of them are criminals themselves, and they are under duress to come up with other people to turn in to the police so they themselves will be protected from arrest and prosecution.
I don’t remember that either.
People I used to trust and respect: priests, politicians and police.
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