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Former Houston Drug Cop Gets 60 Years for His Deadly Lies

That amounts to a life sentence for Gerald Goines, who instigated the no-knock raid that killed Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas by falsely accusing them of selling heroin.

Reason

Former Houston Drug Cop Convicted of Murder After His Lies Resulted in Two Deaths

The jury accepted the prosecution's argument that Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas died because of Gerald Goines' fraudulent search warrant affidavit.

Reason

Houston Officials Trusted a Dishonest Drug Cop for Decades Before His Lies Killed 2 People

But for a disastrous raid, narcotics officer Gerald Goines would have been free to continue framing people he thought were guilty.

Reason

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Houston Cop Who Lied To Justify a No-Knock Drug Raid Says He Is Not Responsible for the Resulting Deaths

Former narcotics officer Gerald Goines faces two murder charges for instigating the home invasion that killed Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas.

Reason

5 Years After a Deadly Drug Raid, Houston's Former Police Chief Might Finally Be Held Accountable

Since leaving Houston, Art Acevedo has bounced from job to job, continuing a spotty career marred by scandal.

Reason

No charges filed in shooting death of 14-year-old who told police: ‘Stop please, you got me’

Jor’Dell, 14, was shot and killed on 1 June in Aurora, Colorado following a convenience store robbery when responding officers believed he was armed with a 9mm pistol

The Independent UK

Police in Colorado release additional footage related to fatal shooting of Jor’Dell Richardson

DENVER — Aurora police on Monday released five additional videos of the events leading up to the shooting of 14-year-old Jor’Dell Richardson earlier this month.

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Black teen shot by officer during struggle was armed with pellet gun, not handgun, police say

Police in suburban Denver say a Black teen fatally shot by an officer was armed with a pellet gun and not a semiautomatic handgun as they originally had said

The Independent UK

'Catfish' cop used his father as a reference to get job as deputy

WASHINGTON — Austin Lee Edwards, the cop who “catfished” a 15-year-old Riverside, California, girl and killed her grandparents and mother before taking his own life, used his own father as one of three character references on his application for a job as a sheriff’s deputy.

Los Angeles Times

FBI finds US crime rate steady in 2021, but data incomplete

The FBI estimates violent crime rates didn’t increase substantially last year, though they remained above pre-pandemic levels, according to annual crime data

The Independent UK

John M. Crisp: What’s missing from the 77-minute Uvalde video?

It’s not easy to make sense of the 77-minute video shot from an overhead camera near the classrooms where 19 children and two teachers were murdered in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24.

Tribune News Service

Exclusive: Local law enforcement officials urge Senate to confirm Biden’s ATF director

WASHINGTON — A group of more than 100 law enforcement leaders on Tuesday endorsed President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the White House said, bolstering the nominee less than a week after his Senate confirmation hearing.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Police delays may have deprived Texas schoolchildren of lifesaving care, experts say

UVALDE, Texas — As the nation struggles to comprehend the horrors that unfolded Tuesday inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, one of the biggest unanswered questions is whether anyone could have been saved.

Los Angeles Times

Police face growing criticism over response to Texas school shooting as parents speak out

UVALDE, Texas — With criticism swelling about the police response to the Texas elementary school massacre, a law enforcement official said Thursday that the gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers entered the school “unobstructed” through an unlocked door 12 minutes after police were alerted about a man nearby…

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All 21 victims in Texas school shooting were killed inside one classroom

UVALDE, Texas — A gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school in one of the deadliest school massacres in U.S. history posted his intentions online before barricading himself inside a fourth-grade classroom, where all the fatalities and injuries occurred, state and federal officials said…

Miami Herald

Miami makes it official: Manny Morales named police chief, city’s fifth in last decade

MIAMI — Manny Morales, who spent the past five months navigating Miami’s tricky political terrain and reversing questionable personnel decisions made under his controversial predecessor, was named to the position permanently Monday — the city’s fifth police chief the past decade.

Miami Herald

Fired police chief sues Miami, claims commissioners tried to ‘weaponize’ cops against enemies

MIAMI — If Miami commissioners hoped they had heard the last from former police chief Art Acevedo when they fired him in October, they were wrong.

The Independent UK

Fired police chief sues city of Miami, commissioners

The embattled former police chief of Miami is suing his former employer and city commissioners, saying his public firing three months ago was in retaliation for him speaking out against corruption

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