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tatters,
their
family
dragged
through
the
mud,
dehumanized,
demeaned,
and
without
the
means
to
support
themselves.
The
department
and
county
leaders
will
retreat
back
to
the
Ivory
Tower
and
the
Taj
Mahal
respectively,
guarded
by
their
team
of
lawyers
and
public
relations
machines.
Further
dissection
of
how
the
tragedy
occurred
or
institutional
failures
will
become
a
moot
point
as
the
scapegoat
officer
can
be
led
to
the
slaughter
and
everyone
can
go
back
to
issuing
platitudes
about
just
how
great
they
are.
The
machinery
of
the
criminal
justice
system
will
then
descend
upon
the
officer
in
order
to
demonstrate
to
the
detractors
that
there
is
no
preferential
treatment.
To
the
contrary,
they
will
apply
a
different,
separate,
and
draconian
set
of
rules
with
the
only
discernable
reason
to
put
the
rest
of
us
on
warning.
Message
received.
Officers
that
think
they
could
not
be
in
this
position
are
gravely
mistaken.
Every
day,
officers
respond
to
situations
where
they
may
only
have
part
of
the
information,
faulty
information,
or
no
information.
They
must
make
decisions
based
on
what
is
in
front
of
them.
And
every
day,
the
decisions
an
officer
must
make
can
have
dire
consequences
and
incur
the
wrath
of
those
that
believe
by
pillorying
the
police
they
can
fix
all
of
societys
problems.
It
should
be
abundantly
clear
to
every
officer,
we
could
all
be
Adam
Torres.
Adam
Torres
responded
to
a
domestic
disturbance,
one
of
the
most
dangerous
calls
that
officers
must
respond
to,
that
was
rapidly
spinning
out
of
control.
An
armed,
irrational
subject
met
him
and
the
result
of
that
meeting
was
a
tragedy
for
all
involved.
Our
sympathies
continue
to
go
out
to
the
Geer
family,
as
they
have
had
to
have
the
loss
of
a
family
member,
tragic
in
any
circumstance,
compounded
by
the
inability
of
senior
officials
to
resolve
administrative
issues
professionally
and
sensibly.
We
should
not
be
compounding
that
tragedy
by
allowing
this
miscarriage
of
the
justice
system
to
continue
in
the
spirit
that
it
is
currently
being
conducted.
The
Fairfax
Coalition
of
Police
Local
5000,
International
Union
of
Police
Associations
fully
stands
behind
our
brother
Adam
Torres.
Through
the
IUPA
Legal
Defense
Fund,
we
will
ensure
that
Officer
Torres
gets
the
best
representation
possible.
We
will
also
continue
to
do
everything
we
can
to
support
the
Torres
family
as
they
too
have
been
working
their
way
through
this
tragedy.
We
look
forward
to
the
trial
where
the
truth
will
ultimately
come
out.
Respectfully,
Sean
Corcoran
President
Fairfax
Coalition
of
Police
Local
5000,
IUPA