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Former Des Moines police officers now face state charges stemming from 2008 traffic stop

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DES MOINES, Iowa — Polk County prosecutors have filed charges against two former Des Moines police officers accused of assaulting a man during a traffic stop in 2008.

Former officers Mersed Dautovic and John Mailander have been charged with willful injury, felonious misconduct in office and perjury, according to The Des Moines Register (http://dmreg.co/Hxbz85 ).

The former officers are accused of beating Octavius Bonds with a baton during the traffic stop. Bonds and Erin Evans, the driver of the car, sued the city, which paid $500,000 last September to settle the case.

Three months later, Dautovic and Mailander were indicted in federal court for obstructing justice and violating Bonds' civil rights. Mailander soon pleaded guilty to the obstruction of justice charge and faces up to 20 years in prison. Dautovic, whose federal case is still pending, faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted.

Two weeks ago, Polk County prosecutors quietly added the new state charges. Both men each face up to 20 years in prison on the state charges.

Court documents say Dautovic and Mailander came up behind Evans' and Bonds' car on Sept. 13, 2008, with lights and sirens on while on their way to an emergency call. When that call was canceled, the officers stopped Evans' car to ask why she hadn't pulled over.

Evans reportedly did not immediately roll down her window and was slow to produce identification and was eventually threatened with pepper spray, pulled from the car and handcuffed.

The documents say Bonds was pepper-sprayed when he got out of the car, then beaten by both officers with batons, even when he was on the ground.

Bonds suffered fractures that required metal plating in various parts of his body and a head injury that required eight staples, according to the court documents.

Morrogh finds cop he doesn’t love. In other news, hell freezes.

Probe of fatal police shooting goes to federal authorities

By Justin Jouvenal/Post

The Fairfax County prosecutor has turned over the investigation of a fatal police shooting of an unarmed Springfield man to federal authorities, citing complications with the five-month-old case.

Commonwealth’s Attorney Ray Morrogh said the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia has agreed to continue the probe into the death of 46-year-old John Geer, who was shot during a standoff with Fairfax County police in August. No one has been charged in the incident.

“There is a conflict of interest that has arisen in the case,” Morrogh said Thursday. “And there is a second potential conflict of interest that has arisen out of my office. . . . This is the prudent thing to do.”

Morrogh declined to describe the nature of the conflicts because the investigation is ongoing. The U.S. attorney’s office said Thursday that it could not confirm or deny any investigation or comment on pending investigations.

Police went to Geer’s Pebble Brook Court home on Aug. 29 because of a report of a domestic disturbance. Geer’s father, Don Geer, said his son was upset because his girlfriend, the mother of his two children, had decided to leave him.

John Geer had thrown his girlfriend’s belongings in the front yard. She called police and told them that Geer had a firearm. Police said they tried for about 50 minutes to persuade Geer to leave the home, but he refused.

Don Geer said he watched the climax of the encounter. He said that he could not hear what officers were saying to his son but that he saw him standing with empty hands resting on top of a screen door at the home’s entrance.

At some point, John Geer began to slowly lower his hands and an officer opened fire, hitting Geer in the chest, his father said. Geer retreated inside and closed the door. A SWAT team eventually entered the home and found Geer dead.

Don Geer said detectives later told him that his son did not have a gun on him at the time of the shooting but that there was a holstered handgun a couple of steps from the front door.

Don Geer said it appeared to him that the shooting was unjustified, but he was unsure what to make of the probe being turned over to federal authorities.

“I don’t know whether that’s good or bad — if I had a better idea of why they are doing it, I could form an opinion,” he said.

Geer and friends of his son have been critical of how long the investigation has taken, but Morrogh said police and prosecutors were working to explore all the evidence. He did not think federal prosecutors would have to start from scratch.

“No one wants these things to linger on,” Morrogh said.

Our ink will outlast his career

Under the reign of former Chief of Police Rhorer the Fairfax County Police arrested a man for not wearing clothes in his house while he made coffee, set up an eye doctor on a gambling charge and then used the SWAT team to kill him. An investigation into the charge that the Doctor’s primary clients were cops has never been investigated. The police gunned down an emotionally unstable man because cop who shot him wrongly assumed the man was trying to escape. He wasn’t. The cops also shot dead four other citizens under highly questionable circumstances. The department under Rhorer was sued multiple times by citizens. So did they fire Rhorer? Naw they promoted him. According to news reports Rhorer draws a salary of $191,168 per year as Deputy Fairfax County Executive as well as a concurrent pension from the Fairfax County police of $173000 per year.

Occupation by force

According to the most recent U.S. Census figures, nearly one in five Fairfax residents (17.5 percent) is of Asian descent while Hispanics make up nearly 16 percent of Fairfax’s overall population. Those numbers drop considerably when applied to the Fairfax County Police Department, where only 4.3 percent of officers are Asian and 4.1 percent Hispanic. White officers make up 84 percent of Fairfax County’s 1,360-member police department, significantly higher than the county’s general population (54 percent white). Almost 90% of the force lives outside the county.