Don’t know if this was posted or not
Another no knock raid gone bad in 2019
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A former Houston Police officer pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday morning in a civil rights case tied to the deadly botched 2019 Harding Street raid.
Steven Bryant, 47, was arrested by FBI agents in late 2019 and charged with obstructing justice by falsifying records related to a no-knock warrant that led to the deaths of Dennis Tuttle, 59, and Rhogena Nicholas, 58.
Bryant is now the first officer to be convicted in the raid’s wake.
In a statement to Houston Public Media, Bryant’s lawyer, Andy Drumheller, wrote that the former officer’s guilty plea reflected “his decision to take responsibility for his conduct.”
“He very much regrets what happened,” Drumheller wrote.
Prosecutors say both Bryant and former HPD officer Gerald Goines, 56, who led the narcotics squad that executed the raid, concocted a story about a confidential informant who purchased heroin from the couple’s home in order to obtain the warrant.
In the ensuing raid, both Tuttle and Nicholas were shot and killed, along with their dog. Goines and four other officers were also wounded, according to court documents.
While Goines was hospitalized, an investigation later revealed that he invented the story, police said.
Goines was arrested alongside Bryant, and was hit with a slew of charges, including felony murder and violating the victims’ Fourth Amendment rights. He has pleaded not guilty………
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/...lsifying-records-in-harding-street-raid-case/