Fairfax County Police Watch: 07/12/16

Fairfax County Police Chief Edwin Roessler Jr. said

Fairfax County Police Chief Edwin Roessler Jr. said his police department “might be willing to begin a pilot program with body cameras worn by officers, but outfitting all officers with the devices would involve a “staggering cost,”

Do you believe this arrogant little fuck?

At this point in the murder spree and law breaking by his cops, he should not have choice

“Roessler said. In addition, the cameras still have many legal questions that must be resolved, he said.

Yeah, they’ll send more cops to jail.

Commonwealth’s Attorney Ray Morrogh strikes again

A Fairfax County Adult Detention Center inmate who died after being tasered by a sheriff’s deputy in February 2015. Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Ray Morrogh ruled no crime occurred.

Killer cop released after 12 months

Adam Torres, the first Fairfax County police officer ever convicted of an on-duty shooting has served 12 months for the killing and was released from jail five days after being sentenced for the involuntary manslaughter death of John Geer.

Think about……if you gunned and unarmed person down, do you really think they’d let you off with a 12 month sentence and then release you on time served?

Once again County Prosecutor Ray Morrogh, the best friend a criminal ever had, said the 10 months Torres served before agreeing to plead guilty to a reduced charge was roughly equivalent to the time he would normally spend in jail after sentencing….so they let the son of bitch go.

The county….BUT NOT POLICE DEPARTMENT FUNDS…….paid Geer’s family $2.95 million to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit.

This is Fairfax County Supervisor Catherine M. Hudgins

This is Fairfax County Supervisor Catherine M. Hudgins of the Hunter Mill District.

She’s an idiot.

Hudgins actually was dumb enough to say, in a public forum "We must remember our officers are putting themselves in harm’s way to keep us all protected."

No. Wrong. The over funded, over staffed Fairfax County Police are a danger to the community and we need protection from them because they have killed more unarmed citizens in the county in the past seven years than criminal have killed in that same time frame.

Commonwealth Attorney Raymond Morrogh struck again when he …once again….. declined to charge a Fairfax County Cop for running over a pedestrian and killing him back in April. Jeff Ponce Aguilar was struck and killed in the overnight hours on April 2 at Beulah Street near Hilltop Village shopping center, while crossing the street on his way home from work. Morrogh of course determined that the officer did not bear criminal responsibility for the wreck.

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.