President-elect Trump recently alleged massive voter fraud in a number of states, including Virginia, where democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe restored voting rights for more than 67,000 former felons ahead of the November election. While many republicans criticized the move as a blatant attempt to secure votes for his long-time pal, Hillary Clinton, many others praised […]
Killer Cop Adam Torres Gets Time Served for Murder of John Geer
A Fairfax County judge accepted a plea deal for Adam Torres today, meaning the killer cop will be released from jail on June 29th, after serving only 10 months for the murder of unarmed John Geer on August 29, 2013. Torres, a former officer with the Fairfax County Police Department, shot and killed John Geer […]
Fairfax County Sends Its Killer Cops Packing…Heat
Updates on Police Accountability in Fairfax, Virginia On May 10th, Fairfax County held its second public safety committee meeting of the year, where the Board of Supervisors discussed recommendations from the Police Executive Research Forum regarding the release of public information and also general use of force recommendations. Members of the ad hoc committee who […]
Plea Deal for Fairfax Killer Cop Adam Torres
On August 29, 2013, Fairfax County police officer Adam Torres shot and killed John Geer as he stood in his own doorway, speaking calmly with Officer Rodney Barnes and the other officers who had responded to Geer’s townhouse 40 minutes earlier. Geer’s partner, Maura Harrington, had called 911 because Geer was distraught over her announcement […]
Fun with FOIA — John Geer, Natasha McKenna, and Why Can’t FCPD Cops Drive?
This is the first of two articles for Sunshine Week, an annual event which promotes open government and freedom of information (read the second one here). FOIA is a valuable tool that anyone who opposes government corruption and abuse should be using to help uncover the misdeeds of public officials. Be warned though, it’s not […]
Did Virginia’s Shall Arrest Domestic Violence Law Cost a Man His Life?
Every October police departments all across the county promote Domestic Violence Awareness Month, which is odd considering how many of the boys in blue go home and beat their families black and blue. From Steven Thomas’ previous article about the subject: According to several organizations, including the Battered Women’s Support Services, police-involved domestic violence is […]
Crybaby Cops to DOJ, “YouTube Won’t Let Us Do Our Jobs!”
A recent Washington Post article provided an inside look at what the heads of law enforcement agencies talk about in private: “Chiefs of some of the nation’s biggest police departments say officers in American cities have pulled back and have stopped policing as aggressively as they used to, fearing that they could be the next […]
Justice Delivers a TKO: Killer Cop Adam Torres Faints at Arraignment
Here’s another roundup of what’s been happening in Fairfax County recently. Adam Torres Gets the Vapors Adam Torres proved he can do the crime, but can’t do the time on Wednesday when he fainted dead away in court upon learning he would be staying in jail until his trial. He will be spending at least […]
End of an Error: Adam Torres Indicted for Murder of John Geer
Yesterday history was made for the second time in the John Geer case. The murder of the unarmed father of two by a Fairfax County cop had already resulted in the largest wrongful death settlement for an officer-involved shooting in Virginia history; With yesterday’s 2nd degree murder indictment for Adam Torres, it also marks the […]
Killer Cop, Adam Torres, Has GoFundMe Account Taken Down (UPDATE)
Thanks to the work of Lorelei McFly, Manda Moore, and Mike Curtis – all of Northern Virginia CopBlock – the GoFundMe account set up by Adam Torres’s wife has been taken down. That’s the story from WUSA9 who conducted the news report below and gives credit to the post (by Lorelei McFly) published here at CopBlock.org yesterday. For those […]
