No Charges Filed Against Cop Who Shot 72-Year-Old On His Own Driveway

An all-too-common sight in America, especially when it comes to unnecessary police shootings.

How the &*%^@! are they training these zombies?

Officer arrived at wrong address and shot homeowner seven times because he “felt threatened”
Kit Daniels
Infowars.com
January 30, 2014
Yesterday a grand jury declined to charge a Ft. Worth, Texas police officer who killed a 72-year-old man on his own driveway after arriving at the wrong address to investigate a burglary alarm.

The jury’s decision not to indict R.A. “Alex” Hoepper for the May 28 shooting death of Jerry Waller came after prosecutors presented 25 hours of testimony over four days, according to the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram.
Waller died after Hoepper shot him seven times as the officer and his partner arrived at Waller’s house, mistakenly thinking that the burglary alarm going off across the street came from his residence.

Waller had been walking down his driveway with his gun to investigate the alarm he heard from his neighbor’s house.
“The 72-year-old man didn’t even make it to the house across the street before he was shot,” CBS Fort Worth reported. “He died on his own property.”
Hoepper later said that he shot Waller because he “felt threatened.”
Ft. Worth police chief Jeff Halstead believed the jury made the “right decision” not to indict Hoepper, even though the officers did not realize they were at the wrong address until a detective showed up later at the scene.
“I think it was proven through the autopsy and evidence that a gun was pointed directly at Officer Hoeppner and he was forced to make his decision,” he said.
But Waller’s family pointed out that since the shooting, the department had been “feeding misinformation” to the local news and to the public.
“We were disturbed by suggestions that police may have felt threatened by a man in his own garage faced with unknown trespassers wielding flashlights,” the family said in a released statement.

One of Waller’s neighbors, former Ft. Worth council member Becky Haskin, also added that Hoeppner, a rookie, is a “victim of his own inexperience.”
“I think he panicked,” Haskin said. “He just unloaded his gun in rapid fire. That’s what I heard; it woke me up. I thought it was in my back yard – just rapid fire, one right after the other, in succession.”
“There wasn’t any hesitation.”
She added that although nothing is going to bring Waller back, someone from the police department should apologize to the family.
“It’s an accidental death at the hands of an untrained police officer.”

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Police Beat Elderly Deaf Man For ‘Refusing Orders’

“You can’t yell at him from behind his car and get a response”

Mikael Thalen
Infowars.com
January 14, 2014

An elderly deaf Oklahoma man was beat by two highway patrol troopers earlier this month for allegedly refusing to comply during a traffic stop.

According to reports, 64-year-old Pearl Pearson left the scene of a minor automobile accident before being pulled over by Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers on January 3.

After issuing several vocal commands from their police vehicle, troopers claim Pearson refused to show his hands. Despite a large placard on his driver’s door stating, “Driver is deaf,” Pearson claims troopers immediately began hitting his face as he attempted to show his ID, which also states that he is hearing-impaired.

After a seven-minute altercation, Pearson was arrested and charged with resisting arrest and leaving the scene of an accident. According to Pearson, he was denied an interpreter for the entire duration of his detainment in and out of jail.

“Not during the booking, hospital, or time at the jail was an interpreter provided, even though Pearl requested one,” a statement reads.

Another statement on PearlPearson.com reveals that Pearson has several family members in law enforcement, making it seem highly unlikely that Pearson would cause issues for police.

“Pearl’s own son is a police officer, as was his son-in-law, who is now a deputy sheriff. He respects law enforcement and knows how to respond when pulled over. There is no reason for someone like Pearl to be hurt like this by those who are meant to protect and serve,” the statement reads.

Sacia Law, Pearson’s next-door neighbor, also agreed that there must have been a major misunderstanding during the traffic stop.

“He’s hearing impaired, you can’t yell at him from behind his car and get a response,” Law told Fox 4. “I know they do dangerous jobs and they put their lives on the line, but that is over the top.”

Despite the obvious misunderstanding, the highway patrol claims they are going forward with the charges while a review of the incident is conducted. The police affidavit made no mention whether or not the troopers realized Pearson was deaf.

Pearson is now receiving financial help from the Total Source for Hearing-Loss and Access group, an agency which provides assistance to the deaf and hard of hearing. A benefit dinner has been scheduled for Thursday at the Garnett Assembly of God church in Tulsa from 5-7 p.m.

Unfortunately, an increasingly violent militarized police force has created a real danger for not only the public, but the country’s countless Constitution-abiding officers.

This post originally appeared at Story Leak

NYPD kills good samaritan

John Collado’s family never thought helping out a fellow neighbor would lead to his death. On Tuesday evening, Collado witnessed a scuffle between his neighbor and an unknown individual.

Sensing trouble, Collado quickly dashed to the aid of his neighbor, mid-mugging. An ex-pro wrestler, Collado did what he does best and put the unidentified person in a choke hold; while the struggle persisted, the unknown person grabbed a gun and fired into Collado’s abdomen.

The presumed mugger was an NYPD narcotics detective.

“My brother went to help and said ‘Get away from him,’ and I guess he grabbed the guy, my brother grabbed him. He didn’t know he was a policeman,” Pablo Collado, John’s brother, told Zack Fink of NY1.

According to law enforcement, Collado picked up the officer, who they argue identified himself as a cop, about a foot off the ground and began spinning him.

While the street-clothed detective was airborne, he took hold of his firearm and shot Collado.

Moments before the clash, the detective saw a suspected drug dealer, Collado’s neighbor, doing a transaction. According to the police, the buyer fled from the scene but the dealer decided to hold his ground and fight.

The brawl poured into the street and at that moment Collado interfered.

The 43-year-old Collado was rushed to the Harlem Hospital where he died 12 hours later.

According to some reports, police found a bag containing 21 dime bags of marijuana that the neighbor dropped when fleeing the scene, as well as a larger bag filled with marijuana at the scene of the drug deal.

Collado’s neighbor was arrested shortly after the incident.

Collado’s family and law enforcement officials tell contradictory stories as to how or why Collado’s death could have been prevented.

Collado’s niece, Banayz Taveras, saw the aftermath of the shooting from across the street.

“I look and I see my uncle with a gunshot wound on the floor,” she told the New York Daily News.

Taveras pleaded for police to let her attempt to help her uncle, but was denied access and was also arrested — for obstruction of justice, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. She was still in custody when her uncle died.

After Collado died in the hospital, his family claimed they were refused admittance to be by Collado’s side or retrieve his body.

According to police the restricted access was necessary because Collado was involved in a crime, but his relatives were allowed to see him shortly after his death.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Wednesday the case is still being investigated by the NYPD.

“If he would have identified himself as a cop, my dad would have stopped. He got shot in the stomach, trying to stop an unidentified cop in a scuffle with a civilian, a kid I grew up with, my dad’s neighbor. He went to break it up,” John Collado, Jr. told the media.

Relatives now plan to sue the city for wrongful death.

Florida SWAT shoots homeless man in the face

Dennis Gaydos, a homeless man from Palm Springs, was making his home outside of a church in the sunny Florida community without incident until a police intervention changed his life.

Gaydos says he was keeping to himself in his temporary home on the church grounds when the Palm Springs Police department SWAT team, dressed in full military garb, shot him multiple times with rubber bullets.

The close-range blast slashed off a portion of his right ear lobe and rendered his left eye a pulpy mess.

In the four years since the event, Gaydos has filed a federal lawsuit against Palm Beach County, Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and the Village of Palm Springs Police Department. The lawsuit, which was filed in late July, is in response to the SWAT team to removing him from his encampment and severely butchering him.

Other damages include “physical suffering, permanent disfigurement including the loss of use of a bodily function, injury and mental anguish.”

“What happened to Mr. Gaydos was outrageous,” says Kevin Anderson to Jose Lambiet of GossipExtra.com. Anderson, Gaydos’ police liability lawyer, adds that “the behavior of the police officers and deputies at the scene was simply unexplainable.”

The lawsuit states, with a deployed helicopter over head, “the plaintiff was overtaken by multiple deputies and police officers. The Plaintiff was not threatening harm to the officers or other individuals upon the defendants’ arrival.”

Authorities claim Gaydos refused to come out and, on the contrary, officers allegedly took action when they spotted Gaydos wielding a cell phone in one hand and a “knife” in the other.

Gaydos admits to having a cell phone in his hands at the night of the incident, but said he had just finished calling a food assistance agency.

It is believed that the food agency’s operator reported to law enforcement that Gaydos was living in underbrush by the church’s parking lot.

Gaydos claims the incident which left him blind and deaf should have never occurred since he had permission from the pastor to reside there.

Gaydos’ attorney added the artificial light in the area was more than sufficient to prevent an “accidental” shooting.

Palm Beach County records indicate the night of the incident, Gaydos didn’t have any criminal charges filed against him and was never arrested.

According to official records no knife was recovered from the scene either.