The Washington Post reports that John Geer, the Springfield man who was killed in his
home by Fairfax County police was not holding a gun at the time of the shooting
and did have a weapon on his person according to Geer’s father, Don Geer.
A
cop told him that a holstered gun holstered handgun on a stairway landing that
is a “couple of steps” from the front door. So
now we know the cop’s cover story.
Geer,
who was outside the home when cops demanded his son leave his home with his
hand sin the air, has said he watched as his son stood with empty hands resting
on top of a screen door at the front door. When John Geer lowered his hands
about six inches, he said, a cop opened fire, and John Geer was hit with
a bullet and killed.
“If he doesn’t have a weapon in his immediate
possession, the officer should not have fired,” Don Geer said. “He would have
to have turned around, bent over and then picked up the gun to present a
threat. It’s pretty hard to say the shooting was justifiable.”
County
Police Chief Edwin C. Roessler Jr. on the killing of John Geer
“My commitment is that a thorough
investigation will be conducted and if the facts don’t support our complete
innocence, we will stonewall the investigation until the media forgets about the
shooting . Since the Washington Post is
the only news outlet following up on the story, that should go off without a
hitch. Thank you.
