Having written extensively about the saga of fired Kansas City police officer Danny Holmes (who yesterday won a $6.5 million judgment against the police board), I wasn't surprised by much of the information presented in Jackson County Circuit Judge David Byrn's courtroom.
But Lyle Gregory, Holmes' attorney, did manage to surprise me by unearthing examples of "alleged misconduct" by KCPD employees who were not fired for their offenses. He used these as evidence to show the jury that Holmes was punished more harshly than usual by the KCPD's powers-that-be.
Among the offenses for which officers were not fired, according to Gregory's documents:
Allowing a crime scene to be contaminated. On April 5, 2007, an officer "responded to the scene of a reported suicide, failed to recognize that it might be a suicide, failed to properly process the crime scene by causing a box of bullets, a gun case, and two wine glasses to be recovered per KCPD policy, and then left the scene prior to the Medical Examiners Office arriving to remove the body. By the time the officer was sent back to the scene to process the scene, it had been contaminated."
Two officers weren't fired for failing to recover two crack pipes from an investigation. On November 3, 2006, two officers were dispatched to a scene where two people in a car were accused of trespassing. "The officers then arrested the female and male subjects for trespassing despite the fact that there were no 'no trespassing' signs posted. The two officers took the crack pipes from the male subject and failed to recover them. The two subjects filed a complaint, which was substantiated," against one of the officers.
Two officers illegally searched a house, then lied about it -- and weren't fired. A citizen complaint was filed on December 17, 2007, by a person who told officers that they did not have permission to search their house. The officers entered anyway, and searched the house. They later lied about it. "During the course of the investigation by the Office of Community Complaints, the officers reported that they had received permission to enter the house, but an in-car video showed that they had not received permission."
Gregory's evidence also described a few lesser offenses for which officers weren't let go: an officer failed to complete department-required activity sheets for more than three months, an officer failed to turn in more than 80 crime-scene reports, and a detective, while testifying on the stand, intentionally prejudiced the jury in a murder trial, causing its dismissal.
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Michael has admitted in his posts that he intentionally tried to throw the case, and HE gave Holmes illegal orders... One question Michael..Didn't you testify under oath that you were not even there or involved?... LOL Quit posting Michael your only digging yourself deeper and deeper!We will still pray for you. Your too blind to know that you need it.
no i didn't lie. Holmes, on the other hand, did. And he did commit illegal acts. Whether ordered to do so or of his own volition. It's irrelevant, because he was in the wrong either way. There MIGHT be others that are also guilty, but that doesn't excuse his own behavior. And he let if ride like that for a year...until he was caught. And now he plays the victim? If his actions didn't hit taxpayers in the wallet and let a murder suspect walk free it would be laughable.
i don't need or want your prayers.
if he had done the right thing from the beginning he wouldn't have been in the situation.
He made his bed, but alas...he doesn't have to actually sleep in it.
MICHAEL... You lied! You should have your badge taken away from you for good! You should have to live 4 years with no income, have your credit destroyed, your car and home taken away, and then have to worry about how to support your family. Danny was compensated for telling the truth. He didn't ask for all of that money. They gave it to him based on evidence of many lies. Try asking for forgiveness to God Michael because the only one who can save you at this point is GOD! Danny has already forgiven everyone involved! He is that kind of a person! He feels sorry for you all. I hope the Coombs family can learn to forgive as well. They are getting their information from liars. They should know the real truth. We pray for you Michael!
But I thought cops were saints who never did any wrong? I mean, that's what they want you to believe.
Why donate the money to the murder victim's family, what this family needs to do is file a lawsuit against Jackson County for not bring the expert medical examiner back for the murder trial...that's the real reason that case was dismissed. And FYI that murder victim was a crackhead in a area he should not have been in, I'm not saying he deseverd to die but thats a facet.
And Danny Holmes admitted to committing illegal acts, whether ordered to do so or not, and receives a lotto award.
He was under no obligation to follow ILLEGAL orders, if his account is to be believed; which in my book it isn't. But I digress. In fact, he's under legal obligation to NOT follow illegal orders and to properly report that misconduct.
His actions were unsafe and illegal and now he's rich. The fact that he blamed it on a detective is laughable. How or why would a homicide detective tell him to put a gun in a freezer and steal bullets? It's ludicrous. Unless the homicide detective was intentionally trying to throw the case.
If Holmes had any conjones he would donate that money to the murder victim's family.
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