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Yeah so is this legit or a dog and pony show for the DA to appear like they are doing the right thing? If this is legit it needs to result in Art f cking Acevedo's swift dismissal as well.

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But now I want to speak on behalf of the 5,200 brave men and woman of the HPD and the other 800,000 police officers that are working these streets every single day, putting their lives on the line. We are sick and tired of having targets on our back. We are sick and tired of having dirt-bags trying to take our lives when all we're trying to do is protect this community & our families. Enough is enough. And if you're the ones out there spreading the rhetoric that police officers are the enemy, just know we've all got your number now. We're gonna be keeping track of all of y'all and make sure we hold you accountable every time you stir the pot on our police officers. We've had enough folks. We're out there doing our job every day putting our lives on the line for our families. Enough is enough. Now please keep these officers in your prayers.

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Chewy said:

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I think the CI is the key here. If they can get her to talk from a deal then I think Goines doesn't stand a chance.

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jpd301 said:

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Charged with Felony Murder which is basically causing a death while committing some other felony.

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(3) commits or attempts to commit a felony, other than manslaughter, and in the course of and in furtherance of the commission or attempt, or in immediate flight from the commission or attempt, he commits or attempts to commit an act clearly dangerous to human life that causes the death of an individual.

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He lied for the search warrant - which is a felony - then caused deaths.

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They should add pre-meditated to the charges, because there was absolutely no way that an arrest was the planned outcome here. No way.

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A total of 15 new criminal felony charges have been filed by the Harris County District Attorney's Office in the ongoing investigation of a botched raid on Harding Street that killed a Houston couple.

Allegations include using false information to get judges to sign search warrants, falsifying time sheets, putting false information in offense reports, and falsifying government documents to steal, prosecutors have determined.

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Bigballin said:

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Any chance that Assevedo resigns over this? He clearly is worried about politics and not the police department if **** like this can happen.

I'm all in support of the police departments and our officers but everyone should be in fear if the corrupt eyes of justice set their focus on you.

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"Goines and others could never have preyed on our community the way they did without the participation of their supervisors; every check and balance in place to stop this type of behavior was circumvented," Ogg said. "This was graft and greed at every step in the process, and prosecutors are making their way through the evidence one incident at a time."

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AGHouston11 said:

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He's only worried about "My people".
So he doesn't care about this couple.

This was never mentioned in ALL of the speeches here in Houston during the Floyd funeral.

Same Mayor, Same Police Chief

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A total of 15 new criminal felony charges have been filed by the Harris County District Attorney's Office in the ongoing investigation of a botched raid on Harding Street that killed a Houston couple.

Allegations include using false information to get judges to sign search warrants, falsifying time sheets, putting false information in offense reports, and falsifying government documents to steal, prosecutors have determined.

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The document which the Houston Police Department released in a post on Twitter after a series of stories in the Chronicle about the department's lack of transparency and after District Attorney Kim Ogg announced new charges against six former police officers tied to the Harding Street raid is the widest internal examination, to date, of problems within the police department's embattled narcotics division

Most of the information authorities have released previously centered on misconduct by Goines and Bryant, but auditors took a wider approach in their review. They examined three years of casework of the two former Squad 15 officers, and probed casework of approximately 70 other undercover officers in squads 9, 10, 14 and 15. There are approximately 175 officers in the Narcotics Division.

They also found hundreds of "administrative" errors, including unauthorized informant payments; sloppy investigations; cases without tactical plans or with missing documentation. They found dozens of cases which supervisors did not appear to have reviewed, and others where officers submitted evidence late, or failed to fill out basic offense reports properly, as well as discrepancies in warrants, evidence and expenses.

The audit also found "overwhelmingly" the need to improve administrative procedures, specifically, supervisory review of case files and case tracking. About 25 percent of the time, supervisors failed to sign case file review sheets, and auditors found many cases were turned in six months to a year late -- far longer than the 10 working days allotted by policy.

Auditors then looked at the other members of Squad 14 and Squad 15, the two general enforcement squads covering south Houston. The review of 173 cases found 306 errors. The most common problem they discovered was that officers failed to include a case review sheet with their investigative packets, but they also found incomplete offense reports, discrepancies in evidence, expenses and warrants, and sloppily conducted investigations.

Auditors looked at 77 cases from Squad 14. They found the widest problems were missing case review sheets. The second worst problem was Thoroughness of Investigation.
When auditors looked at the rest of Goines' squad, they examined 57 cases (separate from their review of Goines/Bryant's cases) and found discrepancies in evidence, expenses, missing case review sheets and other problems.

Auditors found many similar errors with the casework of the officers who worked in the two squads handling drug enforcement on the north side of the city, Squads 9 and 10. The document shows that auditors reviewed 252 cases and found more than 400 errors.
Auditors also found that almost 40 percent of the time, case agents "failed to document pertinent details in the offense report, such as who was present, location of the evidence, and other information that would aid the prosecution."

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If this is legit it needs to result in Art f cking Acevedo's swift dismissal as well.

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He should already be out of a job, but a new mayor is probably the only way to make that happen.%A0

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