Fairfax County Police Watch: This is a good article but this isn't about neoliberal, this is about a police department that plays politics to keep its budget.

What Everybody Is Missing About The Police Chief Who Favors Illegal Aliens Over Americans

Marina Medvin

The neoliberal law enforcement disgrace has just played out in the media.

A leftist police Chief for one of DC’s wealthiest suburbs, Fairfax County, Virginia, announced in a press release that an illegal immigrant was initially investigated by one of his officers for causing a traffic collision, and after the officer was notified that the individual was wanted by ICE, the Fairfax officer surrendered him to ICE custody instead of setting him free. The Chief declared that this officer violated his internal police directive that orders Fairfax County officers to set illegal immigrants free, even if the officers are put on notice that these individuals are wanted by ICE and even if they can lawfully detain the individuals under Virginia law. The neoliberal Chief ordered an internal investigation and accused his officer of misconduct, stating that this officer “deprived a person of their freedom, which is unacceptable.”

Conservatives became outraged at a Chief punishing his officer for following Virginia law. “Based on the information currently known, this officer did NOT violate any law. He simply violated the liberal Chief’s sanctuary city policy and was punished for not following the Chief’s political agenda. This Chief destroyed a young officer’s career in order to pursue his selfish liberal ideations,” I advised Townhall for their report on this issue. Always on the wrong end of immigration issues, Liberals were unsurprisingly elated to applaud a Sanctuary City Utopia that does not enforce the law with respect to illegals.

What most media commentary has missed is the striking problem that the neoliberal Chief presented for Americans: he suspended an officer for briefly depriving an illegal of his freedom by detaining him until ICE arrived, but yet has never announced suspending or investigating an officer who has deprived an American of his or her freedom during an illegal detention or arrest. And, as a practicing Fairfax County attorney, I can personally vouch for the fact that unconstitutional deprivations of freedom have certainly taken place in Fairfax County, and these violations were remedied by the Court, but not by the police department.

“When was the last time that Fairfax County disciplined an officer for violating the rights of an American? Every time a lawyer wins a Motion to Suppress, it means that a defendant’s rights were violated. Yet, the responsible officers do not get publicly disciplined, if at all,” I advised the senior editor of Townhall for his article on this issue.

This is a very important point to digest. When an accused prevails on a Motion to Suppress, it indicates that his Fourth Amendment rights have been violated by the arresting or detaining officer. But does this neoliberal Chief care about his officers violating constitutional rights, true freedom violations? That question can only be answered by asking another question: has this Chief ever suspended and investigated an officer for violating the constitutional rights of an American? Does this Chief even have a directive on how to re-educate a police officer on constitutional rights when an officer’s arrest or detention was deemed unlawful in court? According to trusted sources, the answer is no, to both of these questions.

Moreover, the deprivation of freedom under the Constitution is a violation of freedom that has been recognized by American courts for centuries, the issue that defines our criminal justice system. The deprivation of “freedom” that the neoliberal Chief found unacceptable, however, is a freedom that this Chief personally bestowed upon a group of people that he personally and politically favors, a made-up anti-law-enforcement sanctuary city “freedom.”

By not redressing the constitutional violations of American defendants and only enforcing the politically-motivated “rights” of illegal immigrants, this Chief, undeniably, creates favoritism in his department for illegal immigrants over Americans. This is discriminatory, disgraceful, and wrong.

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.