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Review examines Fairfax Co. police raid on Iraq veteran
By Dick Uliano
August 3, 2015 4:24 pm
WASHINGTON — Did Fairfax County police respond properly to a
potentially dangerous situation, or did they overreact?
An internal review is expected to be completed this week into the June
14 Fairfax County police action in which an Iraq War veteran woke up to find
three police officers standing in the bedroom of his Alexandria apartment.
Alex Horton was asleep in bed when police, with guns drawn, burst into
his bedroom. He claims they pointed guns at his head.
The police were summoned when neighbors spotted Horton in the complex’s
model apartment unit, unaware that building managers had temporarily moved him
there while repairs were being made to his apartment.
Police responded to a call of “unlawful entry.”
Brad Carrutters, president of Fairfax Fraternal Order of Police Lodge
77 — a police union, writes on a Facebook that “officers followed proper
protocols.”
He says police had no idea what they might face and “correctly used
their firearms to stabilize the situation,” he wrote on the social networking
site.
But writing in The Washington Post, Horton has criticized the police
action, branding it an example of a “troubling approach to law enforcement,
nationwide.” Horton says the entry with guns drawn raised the risk of injury or
death when the matter could have been resolved if police had checked with
building managers or building security.
As a member of the Army’s 3rd Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division,
Horton conducted raids in Iraq on the homes of high-value targets. He contends
that actions like those of Fairfax County Police June 14 “has caused public
trust in law enforcement to deteriorate.”
Fairfax County police have been conducting interviews in an internal
inquiry to determine the facts of the case. The report is expected to be
completed later this week and Police Chief Edwin Roessler is expected to
deliver a statement on the inquiry’s findings.
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