Shooting victim's husband says police detained him for hours
Source: AP
A man who survived the shooting that killed his wife at an Atlanta-area massage business last week said police detained him in handcuffs for four hours after the attack.
Mario Gonzalez said he was held in a patrol car outside the spa. The revelation, in an interview with Mundo Hispanico, a Spanish-language news website, follows other criticism of Cherokee County officials investigating the March 16 attack, which killed four people. Four others were killed about an hour later at two spas in Atlanta.
Gonzalezs accusation would also mean that he remained detained after police released security video images of the suspected gunman and after authorities captured him 150 miles south of Atlanta. He questioned whether his treatment by authorities was because hes Mexican.
The Cherokee County Sheriffs Office did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment Monday.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/mario-gonzalez-shooting-victim-husband-police-detain-hours-4d05ea994c092f400a7aa0332ef93c84
Just when you think the police cannot possibly get worse, they prove you wrong.
DURHAM D
(32,609 posts)marble falls
(57,080 posts)... suspect initially.
PatSeg
(47,419 posts)As these kinds of shootings often involve a relative or boyfriend, but four hours was inexcusable, especially after they'd received video footage of the suspected gunman. Detaining him for that long was extremely cruel, as this man just lost his wife.
UpInArms
(51,282 posts)I could spit nails
Aristus
(66,327 posts)Let's brang him in 'n' "question" him, 'kay?"
God, I fucking hate cops...
sop
(10,167 posts)I'd be suing those assholes.
dogknob
(2,431 posts)wnylib
(21,438 posts)something about police reform.
erronis
(15,241 posts)especially when the police union (!a union!) gets involved in the messaging and the local news outlets are part of the problem.
wnylib
(21,438 posts)the problem, yes.
But a successful lawsuit would increase public awareness.
erronis
(15,241 posts)They vote on who they like - sometimes based on WASP faces.
Maybe it's different in WNY but having activist friend in the Rochester area, not sure....
I think the solution is to start holding the perps criminally responsible. Put significant financial burdens on the people responsible. Make sure they can't be hired in other jurisdictions. Which means publishing their crimes and having a national database.
Oh well, one can dream.
wnylib
(21,438 posts)niyad
(113,279 posts)simply did not count.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)Clearly that was of no concern, though. FML
Delmette2.0
(4,164 posts)niyad
(113,279 posts)leftieNanner
(15,084 posts)Or the alternative - could not STOP getting it up. And that's a mortal sin.
ybbor
(1,554 posts)This^^^^
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)orleans
(34,051 posts)ybbor
(1,554 posts)Im not sure why the whole link isnt highlighted, but if you can copy/paste good article, or should I say disturbing.
crickets
(25,968 posts)The page will load without problems, and the website inserts the @ sign again. It's strange and annoying. Thanks for linking the article, though. It's a good one.
https://medium.com/OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759
JI7
(89,248 posts)even if they knew it was that white guy who they would have let go.
COL Mustard
(5,897 posts)And they made the victim's husband sit in a police car watching as the cops dealt with the crime scene. They kept him there for several hours, as I read it at the time. They had him under suspicion, and were hoping that he'd crack and say something.
Still unsolved almost 35 years later. I hope somebody has a guilty conscience.
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)NBachers
(17,108 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,905 posts)APRIL 19, 1995
By RICHARD A. SERRANO
April 13, 1997 12 AM PT
Richard A. Serrano, a Times staff writer based in Washington, has been covering the Oklahoma City bombing story since they day of the explosion
(snip)
The front facade of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building had been ripped off, the top stories crashing down nine flights to the ground. Everyone was suddenly aware that there was a childrens day-care center on the second floor. This isnt supposed to happen in the heartland, said a trembling Hansen. -- The total killed in the tick of a clock at 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, was 168 people, including a nurse, Rebecca Anderson, who, trying to save others, was struck in the head by a piece of falling concrete.
(snip)
Across the country, Americans assumed the blast was the work of foreign terrorists. A Jordanian American from Oklahoma City, en route to visit relatives that day in the Middle East, was stopped, searched and detained. Arab immigrants living in Oklahoma and Texas were rounded up for questioning, and some were deported. The nations newspapers decried foreign despots and warned that a world of car bombings, hijackings and international terrorism had finally descended upon Americas shores.
Before the week was out, though, the FBI released composite sketches and all-points-bulletins for two white American males.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-04-13-tm-48157-story.html
joetheman
(1,450 posts)He should get enough compensation to keep himself and family. It's terrible to be thinking in such terms about the loss of life but I am so angry my mind goes to punishment that might be fulfilled. I doubt that the killer will be held accountable for anything and the police who mistreated the victims won't either.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)This is not shocking.
-Laelth
SYFROYH
(34,169 posts)so yes he could be a person of interest and investigated, but simply being a spouse who works at the same place is not sufficient justification -- at least in my mind.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)If so, it could have been a hit.
-Laelth
Duppers
(28,120 posts)No words.