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Adam Tavss
July 3, 2009
MIAMI BEACH - A Miami Beach police officer who shot and killed a tourist from Virginia last weekend was involved in another fatal shooting just hours after undergoing a psychological evaluation and being returned to duty, according to media reports. The officer has been identified as Adam Tavss, who has been with the department three years.
In the first shooting, Tavss (photo not available) fired at visitor Husien Shehada, 29, outside a nightclub near Washington Avenue and 15th Street. He was pronounced dead at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Police were called after reports that Shehada, a Palestinian-American on vacation with his brother and their girlfriends, may have been carrying a weapon. Some of the confrontation and the shooting were caught on video by a Twist nightclub surveillance camera. Shehada's death prompted the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in Washington to call for an investigation.In the first incident on June 14th two brothers – Samir and Husein Shehada -- were walking near 11th Street and Washington Avenue. Police had received reports of two men in the area wielding guns. Husein Shehada, 29, was gunned down by Miami Beach police officer Tavss around 4 a.m. Sunday. Shehada, who was visiting from Virginia, was not armed.
"He didn't do anything wrong he didn't make any quick movements it just didn't seem like there's any justification," Samir Shehada said in a phone interview from Virginia with the media. "He was my best friend. We talked everyday. We hung out all the time and to just see him alive again for the last few moments that he was on this earth it hurt me a lot."
After being temporarily relieved of duty following that Sunday (June 14, 2009) shooting, Tavss was back on the street Thursday (June 18, 2009) when he and fellow officer Frank Celestre both fired during an incident involving a man who allegedly carjacked a taxi near Alton Road and Third Street. The taxi reportedly went the wrong way down the MacArthur Causeway before crashing.
The second man shot by Tavss and Celestre has been identified as Lawrence Raymond McCoy.
Tavss and Celestre have been placed on administrative leave, police said. All the officers -- except for a volunteer -- involved in the McCoy shooting are on administrative leave. The officers are Frank Celestre, Miami Beach Public Service Specialist Gisela Tacoa. Steve Stuart, an off-duty Miami Beach Reserve Officer, is a volunteer and is not on leave.
Miami Beach Police Chief Carlos Noriega Speaks
"It is important to note that the subjects in both cases had exhibited aggressive, violent, noncompliant and criminal behavior," Miami Beach police chief Carlos Noriega (pictured above) said in a prepared statement. "It is also important to note that officers are required to make split-second decisions based on a variety of factors and can't afford to hesitate or be wrong," he said, reading the statement at police headquarters, across the street from where one man was shot.
John Contini, an attorney for the Shehada family, told the Herald that it was "unconscionable" that Tavss would be in a position where he might have to shoot to kill just days after the fatal shooting to Shehada.
"[Husien's] body is almost still warm and he's sporting a badge and a gun and discharging his firearm on the streets of South Beach yet again?" Contini told the Herald.
Tavss received support from Miami Beach Fraternal Order of Police president Sgt. Alejandro Bello.
In other police news this week [of June 21, 2009], a Miami-Dade Police officer was involved in a fatal shooting. Police said robbery detectives were called by a robbery victim Friday night about 11 p.m. The detectives discovered the suspect, who was still armed. According to police, a confrontation ensued and a detective whose name was not released fired his weapon. The suspect, whose name was also not released, was taken to a local hospital where he died.
Lying is the Norm
Christopher Perino
June 24th 2009
C.J. Note: Lying is the norm for police officers, prosecutors and many judges in courts of law. An honest cop, prosecutor, or judge is an exception to the norm.
More than 50 NYPD detectives stood in silent solidarity in a Bronx courtroom Wednesday to support a cop who was convicted of lying on the witness stand. Detective Christopher Perino faces up to seven years in prison for testifying that he did not interrogate attempted-murder suspect Erik Crespo. It turned out that the then-17-year-old recorded 70 minutes of Perino's questioning on his MP3 player. Perino, who testified he did not remember the questioning, sighed several times and shook his head after hearing Bronx Supreme Court Justice James Kindler's verdict. The 22-year NYPD veteran looked forlorn as he passed through the lines of his supporters as he left court. Perino's lawyer Murray Richman said he was "very disappointed" with the verdict and plans an appeal.
He argued that cops might fear the consequences every time they interview suspects: "Are we supposed to remember each and every moment of our existence?" With dozens of detectives around him on the sidewalk of the courthouse, Michael Palladino, head of the Detectives' Endowment Association, said the "strange" verdict was probably a "compromise decision." "This is a very traumatic experience not only for Detective Perino (pictured above left-center) but all cops in the Bronx," Palladino said. "Cops, despite what some people think, are people, too. They forget things at times. "We won't take this lying down. Our fight here is not over."
Perino will be sentenced Aug. 18, 2009 on the first-degree perjury conviction. Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson said he will recommend prison time for Perino. "We cannot even begin to address the public safety issues in the city if the testimony on which we must rely is perjured," Johnson said in a statement. Police sources and the district attorney's office said Perino will be fired as a result of the conviction. Richman said he plans to ask that Perino, a married father of four, be kept out of prison until the appeal process is completed. Richman noted that Perino faces the same amount of jail time that Crespo got after pleading guilty to a lesser charge.
Update
July 3, 2009
The family of a Bronx man killed by an off-duty cop who claimed he was acting in self-defense reacted with tears and resignation Thursday when the officer was sentenced to one to three years in jail. Fermin Arzu's family had asked for the maximum of 15 years in prison for Rafael Lora, who was fired from the NYPD after the fatal shooting. "Even though I didn't get the exact sentence I wanted, I feel happy because it's going to prevent other families from going through the same thing that I'm going through," said Arzu's daughter, Katherine. "Justice was served for my family."
Her mother, Anayda Arzu, hoped for a stiffer sentence. "I feel bad, but only God can decide," she said.
"Let the message go out to police officers around the world - if you're acting as a police officer and kill someone recklessly you will go to jail," added lawyer Sanford Rubenstein, who is representing the Arzu family in a civil suit against the city. Even if Lora (pictured above left), who is free pending appeal, were immediately jailed he would be eligible for probation in 90 days, according to his lawyer, Stuart London. Prosecutors denied that. The law allowed Bronx Supreme Court Justice Margaret Clancy to sentence Lora, 39, to anything from community service to up to 15 years in prison. Clancy said prison time was required to show Arzu's family that the slain man was "loved and valued by society," but she was reluctant to hit Lora with the max because he'd been a good cop until the shooting. Lora was stoic when he was convicted of manslaughter after a nonjury trial in April, but he wept as he read his presentencing statement.
"Not a day goes by that the tragic loss suffered by this family does not cross my mind," he said. "I would like to send my sincere prayers to the Arzu family."
Several Arzu family members walked out of the courtroom as the veteran cop spoke, and the dead man's daughter said she wasn't moved by the ex-cop's tears.
"I didn't feel that was really coming from his heart," she said.
Lora was off-duty when he heard a minivan driven by a dazed and drunken Arzu, 41, crash into a parked car near his Longwood home on May 18, 2007.
The cop testified during the nonjury trial that he raced toward Arzu's vehicle after it crashed. He said that when he asked for Arzu's driver's license, the Honduran immigrant took off, dragging him along.
Lora said he was forced to shoot Arzu, whose van careened down the street and burst into flames. Prosecutors argued there was no reason for him to shoot.
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