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How fast are these punks travelling in our cars on our roads?

The cop who stuck and killed a man wasn't named....think the media would do that for you? Well think again.

Pedestrian Struck, Killed by Fairfax County Police Cruiser

in front of a Fairfax County, Virginia, police cruiser late Saturday night, police say.

Jeffrey Ponce Aguilar, 26, of Alexandria, Virginia, stepped into the roadway against the green light at Beulah Street near Old Beulah Street around 11 p.m. Saturday. A police car, driving north on Beulah Street, couldn’t stop in time and hit the man, police said.

"There was no reaction time for the officer based upon the weather conditions and dim lighting," said Fairfax County Chief of Police Edwin C. Roessler at a news conference.

Roessler said there was heavy rain at the time of the crash and Aguilar was wearing dark clothing.

The officer immediately stopped and requested an ambulance, police said. Aguilar was taken to Inova Franconia-Springfield HealthPlex with life-threatening injuries, where he died about 45 minutes later.

The officer, who has not been named, did not require medical attention.

Roessler said the department's crash reconstruction unit will investigate to determine if the crash was preventable. The Fairfax County Police Department Internal Affairs Bureau will also do a separate investigation to learn whether or not the officer complied with procedure.

"At this time we don't have any information if speeding or alcohol was a factor for the driver or the pedestrian," Roessler said. "Unfortunately, accidents do happen and it's a tragic loss of life here with Mr. Aguilar."

4 injured in Fairfax Co. school bus, police cruiser crash

SPRINGFIELD, Va. (AP) — Authorities say four people have been injured in a crash involving a police cruiser Fairfax County school bus that was carrying dozens of students.

Fairfax County police spokesman Sgt. Roger Henriquez says the crash happened around 12:45 p.m. Thursday in Springfield.

Police say a preliminary investigation shows the bus pulled in front of the officer's cruiser when the collision occurred.

Police say two students, a chaperone and the police officer were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

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.