ChristCrusader
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7 months and still no resolution for John Geer's suspected murder by Fairfax police
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/local/wp/2014/04/02/the-death-of-john-geer-now-seven-months-of-silence-on-fairfax-police-shooting/
The death of John Geer: Now seven months of silence on Fairfax police shooting
Original reports justified the heavy tactical response because the offended, breaking-up girlfriend who called police told them that he owned a firearm.
Just wanted to remind people that this was still an unresolved - in my opinion - murder.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/local/wp/2014/04/02/the-death-of-john-geer-now-seven-months-of-silence-on-fairfax-police-shooting/
The death of John Geer: Now seven months of silence on Fairfax police shooting
The clock keeps ticking, and that’s about the only sound emanating from the investigation into the death of John Geer. Geer, 46, was unarmed when he was shot to death by a Fairfax County police officer on Aug. 29. It has now been seven months and there is still no explanation from the Fairfax police, prosecutors or federal investigators about how and why this happened, and whether or not it was legally justifiable.
Geer was standing in the doorway of his home in Springfield, speaking to an officer who had his service weapon drawn. Geer’s girlfriend and two daughters had fled the home. Geer was distraught, had thrown his girlfriend’s clothes out of the house and had been drinking, witnesses have told The Post, and there was a gun in his townhouse on Pebble Brook Court. But he did not have the gun on him, a fact which was clearly visible as he stood with his hands high on a door frame, dressed in shorts. As Geer stood speaking to the still unnamed officer, the officer fired one shot into Geer’s chest, witnesses told The Post. Geer staggered back into the house and closed the door. Police waited another hour before going in, where they found Geer dead.
The unanswered questions are the same as they were on Aug. 29, as is the silence from Official Fairfax. Why did the police create a “barricade situation” with one man alone in a townhouse? Why did the officer shoot? And why did the police take so long to render aid to a man they knew had been shot in the chest at close range?
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Original reports justified the heavy tactical response because the offended, breaking-up girlfriend who called police told them that he owned a firearm.
Just wanted to remind people that this was still an unresolved - in my opinion - murder.
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