That officer has a history of finding drugs, but he was shot and taken to the hospital as the raid began and no drugs were found. This raised the issue of whether he had planned to plant drugs but was unable to because he was shot.
Actually he has a history of having drugs strangely in his possession, and even did have some drugs in his possession, in his official police vehicle, after the raid that killed the couple.
"In 2002, Goines was in trouble for keeping crack cocaine he’d purchased in a drug buy. The evidence was found unlogged in the toolbox of his city vehicle.
That particular problem persisted, because drugs were also found in Goines' city vehicle after the botched raid in January."
1,400 cases tied to officer at center of deadly raid to be reviewed
Despite the raid involving a lot of police, nobody had a body camera.
"The push for body cameras started in 2015 when Houston City Council approved a $3.4 million contract with plans to buy 4,100 devices, but put those plans on pause in 2017 after Acevedo raised concerns about issues with the cameras’ battery life."
Lack of body cameras limits answers from botched Houston drug raid
Texas has executed a lot of people, including quite a few who turned out to have been possibly innocent and many whose crimes were not as offensive as the phony drug raid.
Recently the NYPD charged a guy who had a fake gun with murder because when the police saw the fake gun they accidentally shot one of their own people and they figured the blame was best put at the guy with the fake gun.
This isn't his first time faking evidence. There are even some upcoming trials whose lawyers say they can show that he faked evidence.
1,400 cases tied to officer at center of deadly raid to be reviewed
Can one cop, alone, really create fake cases and rise through the ranks on bogus work without other cops noticing? It's hard to believe.
