Continued silence from the John Geer case

[Chris0nllyn]

IN BROAD daylight and at close range, three Fairfax County police officers saw a fourth officer, Adam Torres, shoot John Geer once in the chest in August 2013. Two other witnesses, Mr. Geer’s father and a friend, also saw it. All five of those witnesses agreed that Mr. Geer, who had a holstered handgun at his feet, had his hands up at the moment Officer Torres pulled the trigger.

Mr. Geer, a 46-year-old father of two, committed no known crime that day. He had been speaking calmly with the officers for almost three-quarters of an hour when the lethal shot was fired. He then bled to death just inside the doorway of his home.

That was more than 17 months ago, and still there has been no accounting for Mr. Geer’s death. No charges. No indictment. No prosecution. And no information until last week, when the police, complying with a judge’s order, finally released thousands of documents.

The Wall Street Journal reported recently that Fairfax, one of the largest police departments in the nation, does not regard police-involved shootings as an “actual offense” and therefore does not report them to the FBI — part of a pattern among law enforcement agencies that results in no reliable statistics on the number of people police kill.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...7f5262-ab26-11e4-ad71-7b9eba0f87d6_story.html

 

[Hijinx]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...7f5262-ab26-11e4-ad71-7b9eba0f87d6_story.html

Strange. Geer had committed no crime ---That day--- what does that mean? Did Geer have a record? What was that record?
They talked to him for 45 minutes while he had this gun at his feet? Why? Why didn't one of the officers move to remove the gun?
Why talk to this man for 45 minutes? If they had moved toward him to arrest him what could he have done that would have caused any worse damage than what was done?
If he had then gone for the gun then they would have been justified in the shooting.

I can only surmise what happened ? Police were called to the scene, they tried to talk this man out to make an arrest.
One officer got tired of talking.

It looks bad for the officer, but this man doesn't appear to be a total innocent who got shot either.
The police by didn't handle this thing right from start to finish.

 

[Chris0nllyn]

Strange. Geer had committed no crime ---That day--- what does that mean? Did Geer have a record? What was that record?
They talked to him for 45 minutes while he had this gun at his feet? Why? Why didn't one of the officers move to remove the gun?
Why talk to this man for 45 minutes? If they had moved toward him to arrest him what could he have done that would have caused any worse damage than what was done?
If he had then gone for the gun then they would have been justified in the shooting.

I can only surmise what happened ? Police were called to the scene, they tried to talk this man out to make an arrest.
One officer got tired of talking.

It looks bad for the officer, but this man doesn't appear to be a total innocent who got shot either.
The police by didn't handle this thing right from start to finish.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...d36d96-339a-11e4-a723-fa3895a25d02_story.html

 

[Hijinx]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...d36d96-339a-11e4-a723-fa3895a25d02_story.html

That sure puts things in a different light doesn't it?

 

[GURPS]

The man, John Geer, was distraught and had been drinking — his longtime girlfriend had moved out and called police when he threw her things into the front yard —

to damn bad for the GF, she moves out and leave her cap behind, then calls the police because he throw the stuff out
I wonder how she feels now .... cop should be IN Jail, awaiting the needle

 

[HoosierDaddy]

cop should be IN Jail, awaiting the needle

THIS makes you no better than Sharpton and the thugs in Ferguson, MO. Justice requires that the cop gets all the benefits of American jurisprudence. Even than, it's unlikely he'd get the needle.