Fairfax County Police Watch: 06/15/15

THE TORRES TWO YEAR PAID VACATION PLAN

Are you a cop in Fairfax County? Ever wish you could get two years paid vacation that won’t interfere with your pension?

Well now you can! Under the Torres Two Year Paid Vacation Plan all you have to do is kill someone! *

It’s like getting away with murder!

FAQS about the Torres Two Year Vacation Plan

What excuses will work for killing an unarmed citizen?

Almost anything will work! That's right ANYTHING! As an example “The car door pushed my arm which caused me to pull the trigger that placed a bullet directly though his heart” or “Even though we had him blocked in on all sides and had chased him for miles for stealing a plant, I felt threatened and shot him dead! Both of those worked!

Go on! And I can get away with excuses like that?

Sure! Sometimes you don’t even need an excuse!

What about body cameras? Won’t that leave evidence?

Sure they will BUT WE DON’T USE THEM IN FAIRFAX COUNTY!

Won’t someone investigate the shooting?

Here’s the beauty of the Torres Two year Vacation Plan…..the cops will investigate the cops!

What if the investigation finds me guilty?

In the sixty years of the Fairfax County Police and many, many questionable killings THAT HAS NEVER HAPPENED! And if it is does, we’ll just make the evidence exempt from the public records!

How about the media? Won’t they cause a problem?

Perhaps some will…. but for the most part explaining wanton murder takes more than sixty seconds to explain so the electronic media won’t even cover the killing beyond that! Even better still, some members of the media are so desperate for attention they’ll even join government sponsored committees control by the politicians and the police to examine why the police kill people and why our government officials don’t do anything about it! See? Under the Torres Two Year Vacation Plan cops can’t lose!

But isn’t the role of media sacred? Aren’t they supposed to be the watch dogs of democracy?

Come on kid, land your fuck’n balloon.

Don’t I have to be concerned about the victim’s family?

Naw! Not under the Torres Two Year Vacation Plan! The police department will pay them off with millions in taxpayer’s dollars!

But gosh, won’t this harm our elected officials?

Heck no! As long as they keep calling themselves liberals they’ll keep getting the right endorsements and keep getting reelected!

I’m sold! How do I start to I take advantage of the Torres Two Year Vacation Plan?

Just start shooting people** It’s that simple!

The Torres Plan Two Year Vacation Plan ….

It’s like getting away with murder!

*Certain rules and restrictions may apply. Unfortunately the Torres Plan does not cover shooting children, most women and people of color.

**Victims must have no prior criminal record and be unarmed and/or posing no direct threat to the public.

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.