Fairfax County Police Watch: 01/17/12

The officer Christian Chamberlain Award for “Fuck you, I’ll get away with it anyway” Fairfax County police . Police brutality

San Antonio TX police accused of excessive force when they allegedly repeatedly stomped on a man who was laying down prone after a female officer knocked him down during a traffic stop involving the man’s son. He allegedly came over to make sure his son was ok and the allegations are being backed by a third-party witness. [3] bit.ly/AdNr4e

Seminole Co FL deputy claims she was told by her sergeant and a sergeant with the Lake Mary PD to alter her report where she alleged a Lake Mary FL cop used excessive force when he arrested a drunk man on questionable charges. [5] http://thesent.nl/Awzsnd

Torrance CA police are being sued by one of their own cops claiming that his senior officer tasered him to see if he really had a back injury. [3] bit.ly/y4BrMB

Denver Co police were forced by a civil service panel to rehire 2 cops who were fired for lying on their reports about an excessive force incident. [0] on9news.tv/wJal7V

St Marys WV cop appologizes for making at least 2 fake police misconduct videos with the help of a fellow cop who played the part of a motorist being harassed by the officer. No word on what the intent behind this one was. [0] bit.ly/x2tEOS

The Fairfax County Police officer Walter R. Fasci/ Sean McGlone award for sober living.

Lee Co FL deputy will likely be fired after she asked officers for a break then yelled at them when she was arrested for drunk driving while off-duty [0] bit.ly/ybvntZ

This week’s candidates for the Brian Sonnenberg Peaceful Resolution to Conflict Center Award. Fairfax County Police. police brutality

Tatum TX police chief is being investigated after allegedly threatening to make one of his officer’s girlfriends disappear after the two had a domestic dispute. [3] bit.ly/AiuXFS

This week’s sexual assault by your local police. Fairfax County Police. Police brutality

Broken Arrow OK cop was suspended while under investigation after a woman sought treatment at a hospital claiming that the officer sexually assaulted her. [1] bit.ly/yZNPPQ

If we want to correct the police problem in America, we need to raise hiring standards

Maui HI police are being sued over a wrong door raid on a couple who were hosting a dinner party when it went down. The raid apparently lasted 30 minutes before cops realized they had the wrong address. [3] bit.ly/wNSLKS

I wish I was Elvis guy wants you to meet his parents

My favorite color is still three guy wants you to meet the family

Children, the policeman is not your friend

And now a word from toilet bowl guy

God damn it ...I did not drink from the toilet, I trpped and......oh fuck it

Surprise!

Pissed off

and now a word from pear head guy..........

Meet the little woman in my life..........

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.