Current Events > Cop that arrested George Floyd in 2004 "likely lied" says current DA

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Original article is on WSJ behind a paywall. This article provides most of the relevant details.
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According to The Wall Street Journal, Harris County District Attorney Kim Oggs office concluded that a scandal-ridden former Houston police officer likely lied when he arrested George Floyd on a minor drug offense for which Mr. Floyd served time in state jail.

• Ogg said that her offices examination of Floyds 2004 case could extend their investigation to examine more arrests made by Gerald Goines, who was charged with murder after a botched drug raid in 2019 in which two people were killed, wrote The Journal.
• Goines, who has also been charged with tampering with a government record by lying in order to obtain the search warrant that authorized the deadly 2019 raid, is the officer who arrested Floyd in 2004 over what Ms. Ogg described as a one-rock, $10 crack buy, the report continued.
• Ogg suggested that years before Mr. Floyd was killed by a former Minneapolis police officer with a history of complaints on his record, he may have been set up by a Houston officer with a notorious background, the Journal reported.

Goines was likely lying in this case, she said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, pointing to several red flags, including that the deal was very small time and that Mr. Goines was the only police-officer witness. These are not cases that we would take or that we would accept for charges under my administration.

• Floyds arrest and conviction for review has led to a wider investigation into thousands of other cases involving Goines, who was on the Houston Police Departments narcotics squad.
• Ogg stated that the likelihood that Goines lied about Floyds arrest could cause her office to broaden that review of Mr. Goiness cases in an effort to offer relief to those who may have been wrongfully accused, arrested and convicted, the report said.

It means that well move that marker back and well look at even more defendants convicted earlier than we have previously, Ogg added.

• Oggs office has asked a judge to dismiss one case and overturn two convictions so far. In addition, it has also requested that judges appoint lawyers for 152 defendants whose cases have been identified as needing to be overturned.
• Nicole DeBorde Hochglaube, who is the attorney for Goines, questioned the timing of Oggs attention to Floyds 2004 arrest and conviction, given that Goiness case is still in court. This is nothing but a political press move on her part, DeBorde Hochglaube said, and an attempt to put Mr. Goiness name back in the news.

Oggs office had attempted to notify Floyd about the review of cases involving Goines but now believes he likely never received the March 2019 letter, which was sent to his last known address on Nalle Street in Houstons Third Ward, the Journal wrote.

Based on a review of criminal cases filed in Harris County, Texas, it appears that former Houston Police Department Officer Gerald Goines may have been involved in the above-referenced case which resulted in your conviction, the letter said. Please be informed that Officer Goines has been relieved of duty and is currently under criminal investigation.

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you telling me pigs lie to get arrests at the sake of all sense of morality??!?

Dont mess with texas

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And I thought my life sucked. Anyhow, I am glad that Harris County District Attorney is working on relief to the wrongfully accused.

Saying it is politically motivated? What isn't?

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No systematic racism tho...

Odoylerules posted...

No systematic racism tho...

Your point?

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