Fairfax County Police Watch: 06/25/15

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Bunny Boots Ink 1 month ago

What that cop did was very illegal and you should seek civil action against him. You have a very easy case against that officer because he violated your rights. I'm forwarding this video to PINAC (Photography Is Not A Crime). This needs public attention.

catrashoo 1 month ago

Its about privacy ,when the officer gave his statement about the arrest ,the 1rst charge he mension was about the ID THING , he was told that they were not going to charge me for that because the law had changed back in 2013 ,and at the end of the video he says why he was arresting me ,its all about privacy ,he invaded my house ,my sanctuary . I know they are doing this to others who dont know the law.

Ian Battles 1 month ago

And cops wonder why nobody respects them!

Nonya Bidnass 1 month ago

+Ian Battles No they don't. They know why, they just don't care.

Aaron Hypnotoad 1 month ago (edited)

Fairfax, and Virginia itself, does not have any Stop & ID statutes on the books. There is no law that requires you to hand over a physical ID upon request or demand of an officer while in your own home. The most he could lawfully get you on is if he was going to issue a citation and you refused top identify (which you can do verbally) to allow him to fill out the citation. But nothing requires you to hand over an actual ID. He was completely in the wrong for arresting you for saying you were not going to hand over an ID. Since this happened a couple months ago, what was the outcome? Did they charge you with anything?

Atanas Tripzter 1 month ago

No worries if anything happens to him he'll get 2 weeks of paid suspension.. paid by the person he assaulted .

David Scott 1 month ago

Criminal thugs being criminal thugs.

carib2703 3 weeks ago

Is there a Federal, State or Local Ordinance which places a duty and obligation for a man or woman to take a govt issued document called a birth certificate, travel to a Govt office, pick up a pen and write on a form called an application, then pay a sum of money for a Govt issued ID or else face fines or imprisonment? If there is such a Law, Statue or Code in any of the 50 States then a person MUST show ID when asked by the police. But since no freaking law exist anywhere in the 50 state, how can anyone be required or obligated to provided something they have no legal obligation to get or posses in the first place? Same goes for a name and DOB? Any written law anywhere saying a child or parent MUST provide one or else face fines or imprisonment? Wake up people!

Gregory gullace jr 1 month ago (Fairfax County Police)

your fucking corrupt piece of shit motherfuckers you fucking pussy motherfuckerss

David Welch 1 month ago

These cops should have their heads on spikes. It's effective to keep invaders out.

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.