Grieving Family members tour Pecan Park home as questions swirl about botched drug raid. HoustonChronicle.com ($$$)
The offending passage:
When undercover narcotics officers burst in the front door on Jan. 28, they shot dead a pit bull that lunged at them, setting off an exchange of gunfire. Tuttle and Nicholas were killed.
Ummm....
Allegedly the pit bull lunged at officers "immediately" (which is highly unlikely as I've explained before) and allegedly there was an exchange of gunfire. None of this has been proven and, to date, there have been no details released to the public as part of HPD's
In fact, it's seeming more and more likely that the police did most, if not all, of the shooting here, including the developing theory that they injured officers were allegedly wounded by "friendly fire".
To report the police version of the story as fact is foolish, premature and irresponsible. It's also unfair to the family, and the poor dog that might have been needlessly slaughtered by a HPD drug unit that has run off the rails.
The Chron has clearly chosen to focus on Goines, choosing to believe that a "rouge actor" was at work within HPD and refusing to contemplate that the department has rotted from the head down. That's fine if they want to take that tack, but at this point reporting anything that Goines and shock-troops have communicated as truth is irresponsible journalism.
On a related note: I've noticed that the head of the police union has been kept out of the limelight for a while now.
I wonder why?
