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This happened in my hometown, such a shame. This seriously looked like some plantation mess.
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-The kid was not resisting arrest on the ground
-The kid was 15 year old
-5 Popo stomped his head in as he lay there.
What more evidence do you need?
You DO know that guy getting whooped on is in prison for capital murder right?
HOUSTON (KTRK) --
A grand jury has declined to indict Chad Holley for the murder of a Houston man.
Holley was the center of a police beating caught on camera in 2010 when he was 15.
He was formally arraigned on the murder charge in February, but Friday, a grand jury declined to indict him.
"We presented the case to the grand jury and the grand jury declined to indict," said Jim Leitner, Bureau Chief of the Grand Jury Division for the Harris County District Attorney's Office. "If other substantive evidence emerges, the law allows for a grand jury to again consider this matter."
Police say Chad Holley, 22, shot and killed David Trejo-Gonzalez, 42, on September 21. For more than two months, no one was charged with his murder.
ORIGINAL REPORT: Man in HPD beating probe charged with capital murder
Prosecutors say a witness came forward placing not only Holley, but also an accused child killer, at the scene of Trejo-Gonzalez's murder.
Community Activist Quannel X met with Holley inside the Harris County Jail Friday afternoon. He said Holley broke down in tears when he heard the grand jury did not choose to indict him on that capital murder charge.
"And he said, 'I'd been praying to God that the truth would come out," Quanell X said.
Quanell X said he thinks an ankle monitor Holley was wearing at the time of the murder proved Holley was innocent.
"During the time that Mr. Holley was accused of killing this gentleman, Mr. Holley was at home. It clearly showed that Mr. Holley was at home, and that he never left home," Quanell X said, "He didn't leave home before, during, or after the murder of this gentleman."
Harris County Grand Jury Bureau Chief Jim Leitner said the ankle monitor was irrelevant.
"It was not a GPS tracker. So it did not tell us where he was at the time," Leitner said, "It was one of those devices that tells us when he's at his home. During the period of time in question, it had no readings at all, so it didn't help or hurt the case."
Quanell X expects Holley to be released from jail next week. He is currently being held there on unrelated charges.
A grand jury decided within 20 minutes not to indict Holley on the charge of capital murder.
Investigators said the witness saw Holley and Philip Battles run from the apartment complex after hearing the fatal shot that killed Trejo-Gonazlez.
The witness also said he saw Holley run behind a check cashing store and toss a gun into the dumpster.
He said Holley told him he had just killed someone for drug money and asked the witness to be an alibi if police came looking for Holley.
Philip Battles, aka Pewee, is accused with two others in last month's murder of Ava Castillo, 4. He has a second capital murder charge from the killing of Ignacio Ortega, 62, on November 7, a week before the little girl's death.
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Grand Jury Declines to Indict Man in Center of HPD Beating Probe
http://abc13.com/news/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-chad-holley-on-murder-charge/1794637/
RALEIGH, N.C. — One of three law enforcement officers who was indicted the day before in the beating of a Raleigh man was booked Wednesday.
Wake County Deputy Cameron Broadwell surrendered for booking before his mug shot was published on the Raleigh/Wake City-County Bureau of Identification.
Broadwell and Troopers Michael Blake and Tabitha Davis were each indicted on charges of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury and willfully failing to discharge duties. Broadwell also was indicted on a charge of assault inflicting serious bodily injury.
It was not immediately clear if Blake and Davis have been booked yet.
"I am grateful, thankful and anticipating the outcome," Kyron Dwain Hinton said upon learning of the indictments.
Hinton, 29, of 3033 Poole Road, was arrested on April 3 while walking home from a sweepstakes parlor.
According to an arrest warrant, Hinton was yelling in the roadway at North Raleigh Boulevard and Yonkers Road, implying he had a gun and pointing his hand in the air as if he had a firearm in it. The warrant states that he ignored commands to get on the ground, physically resisted officers when being handcuffed and hit a police dog on the head and face.
Hinton, who was unarmed, said he was approached by several State Highway Patrol troopers and Raleigh police officers who pushed him up against a patrol car and beat him up while a Wake County Sheriff's Office K-9 bit him on his right arm, side and head.
He said he suffered a broken eye socket, broken nose, multiple cuts on his head, "probably 20 bite marks" and memory loss as a result of the incident.
The indictments allege Broadwell beat and kicked Hinton and Blake and Davis hit him with their flashlights. All three are accused of violating the Highway Patrol's and the Wake County Sheriff's Office's use-of-force policies, and Broadwell also is accused of improper handling of his K-9.
"When you see the video, all conversation ends," Hinton said, referring to footage from the body-worn cameras of the officers. "You see how quickly the DA dropped the charges against me. You see how quickly they were indicted. It speaks for itself."
Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman last week dismissed charges of disorderly conduct, resisting a public officer and assault on a law enforcement animal against Hinton while the State Bureau of Investigation looked into his excessive force allegations.
WRAL News is seeking a court order to release footage of Hinton's encounter with law enforcement captured on officers' body-worn cameras. A hearing on the motion is set for the end of the month.
The North Carolina Police Benevolent Association was "extremely disappointed" Broadwell wasn't allowed to tell his side of the story to the grand jury.
"The actions of officers are often made in a split second during rapidly evolving circumstances in matters where the officer’s sworn duties command their presence; it is certainly within the scope of reasonable fairness and justice that the grand jury would benefit from hearing directly from the officer," the PBA said in a statement. "Of course, the district attorney controls the grand jury and apparently sees no difference in this case and any other criminal suspect."
Highway Patrol spokesman Sgt. Michael Baker said Blake and Davis were placed on administrative duty after the agency learned of Hinton's allegations, and the two troopers will remain on administrative duty until the patrol completes its own investigation of their actions.
Sheriff Donnie Harrison said Broadwell also is on administrative duty until the charges against him are resolved.
"I have full confidence in our judicial system and look forward to this being resolved in court," Harrison said in a statement.
The last time a Wake County law enforcement officer faced criminal charges connected to on-duty actions was 2006, when three deputies were charged with misdemeanor assault of a man in a Garner restaurant parking lot.