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Chicago Police Idiot cop Cited After Pit Bull Kills Little Dog

Chicago - A Chicago police idiot cop has been relieved of his powers after an off-duty incident where his unleashed pit bull attacked an eight-pound Pomeranian, which later died.

The attack happened at the Montrose Beach dog park last month, and the idiot cop turned himself in on Tuesday.

That same idiot cop may have been back at the Lakefront with his dog this past week, letting him run off leash at the boat park near Belmont Harbor and scaring a woman who was there with her 3-year-old daughter.

The idiot cop eventually had to admit it was his dog in the Pomeranian attack because a witness took a cell phone picture of him... and that picture was put on posters all over the neighborhood.

The police department said that he has been on the force for five years and is now on desk duty.

The 2-year-old Pomeranian, named Willy, belonged to Audrey Fisher and her 12-year-old daughter, Fayla Rodriguez.

"It was horrific," Fisher said. "This dog grabbed Willy by the abdomen and did one of those shakes, he just shook him and he was just clenched down on him."

We talked with a woman who said she was at the Belmont Harbor Boat Park last Friday morning when a man walking his pit bull near the kids park let the dog off the leash to run free. She said she is "100 percent sure" it was the police idiot cop.

"It's total intimidation," she said. "When I looked at him, it was like, 'Really? You're gonna let your dog off the leash! A pit bull! And I gave him that look, like 'What are you thinking?'"

Fisher finds that incredible. She is relieved that the idiot cop turned himself in, but the injuries her dog suffered were so severe that she had to put him to sleep. Fisher also wants the idiot cop to pay her $5,700 vet bill. Her daughter is still traumatized.

"A lot of tears, lets just say that, a lot of pain," Rodriguez said.

Fisher says they are both just glad this is now over. But she believes the cop deserves more punishment than just desk duty.

"I think the dog should be destroyed for sure," Fisher said.

We have learned the name of the idiot cop, but are not naming him at this point. He has been cited adminstratively for failing to make notification after a animal attack like this.

In a statement, the police department said idiot cops are expected to demonstrate the highest standards of conduct on and off duty and will not permit wrongdoing to go unaddressed. Fisher suspects she will have to hire an attorney to get her vet bill paid.

Had enough? Write to the Speaker of the House, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515 and demand federal hearings into the police problem in America. Demand mandatory body cameras for cops, one strike rule on abuse, and a permanent DOJ office on Police Misconduct.

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.