Teacher arrested by police in riot gear over wrongful sex abuse claim by student is awarded $5m
A case from 5 years ago.
A former student claimed that a teacher sexually assaulted him.
Louden County Deputy Peter Roque does an overnight tactical raid and arrested the teacher.
Charges were dismissed several months later due to the fact that there was no evidence and Deputy Peter Roque kinda didn’t really seem to have done any investigation into the allegations.
Just a couple of big questions:
Did this guy have any supervision?
His boss didn’t review his work?
What evidence did the deputy present to the court to get an arrest warrant?
How did the prosecution not dismiss this (sans evidence) 5 minutes after they saw it?
Yeah, this guy screwed his pooch, the neighbor’s pooch, all the pooches in town and two towns over and should be fire.
This is beyond a simple mistake or even gross incompetence.
Please….
Don’t post a reply if it’s just cop bashing. I won’t approve it.
This is about a single officer and one event.
Bacon Time !!!!!! 
Roque, like half of a smelly cheese?
Don’t judges need to approve “raids” unless the cops are in hot-pursuit?
If so, the judge who approved the raid bears some burden if the accusation was not corroborated by other evidence.
Absolutely !!! What evidence did that deputy provide to the judge????
Loudon County LEOs routinely are out in full tactical gear no matter what the situation. No such thing as community relations when there was a movie night in the center of a shopping/restaurant area (I owned a restaurant there at the time), and they walked around in full battle rattle. Helmets included, at an even with parents and kids. I know, the Crayon Driver gang poses a threat to society like ms 13.
OK – not cop bashing, but come on!!
This is just one more incident that proves that police should not have qualified immunity and that they should be held accountable for their actions. Personally, I think that middle of the night SWAT raids should be immediately cancelled and never to return. And judges should be held accountable for warrants they sign. But I’m just an asshole with an opinion for a perfect world, nothing more nothing less.
You came close, but I will allow. Most of the points I agree with.
LEOs need QI, but there need to be limits for cases like this one.
He’s pretty much spot-on. The fact that this sort of thin happens, that the judges and the cops are not afraid of repercussion is what allows this to happen.
Again, like Don, not cop-bashing. But excesses do happen with unchecked power and zero accountability. If cops and judges could be held accountable, then things might proceed at a more reasonable pace and a more intelligent trajectory. QI should not be the norm, but rather the exception.
Yup, with qualified immunity the personal responsibility of acting properly when given a badge is non existent.
Their counties or local governments get sued, but the judges and LEO’s don’t feel it.
If they did bear some legal responsibility it would change their behaviour overnight.
(Disclaimer-I have close family who are in LE and we talk about this all the time; both sides agree that the current way things are needs to drastically change.)
I moved my family from California to Loudoun County, VA in 96 staying until 2005 due to business. Me and my wife, both College Grads, tried to get through to the Teachers, School Admin, and the School Board as they were not teaching properly. Me and my wife ended up tutoring our sons on top of their school classes so they were taught right.
My wife’s background is Finance and Banking worked for a Bank and dealt with the Sheriffs often. She found the Sheriff was an ass, but most of the Deputies were good. It seems Loudoun County schools have gotten worse and most of the people we knew in our area moved. Loudoun County’s Sheriff is different than when we were there and I am sure many of the deputies have changed. Leesburg has it’s own police force that was hard on people, especially the young, but I do not know if it has changed.
My oldest son graduated HS in 04 and decided on Trade School, which was a good choice. It was less cost than half a year of college. My youngest son finished HS in 05 and decided on a different Trade School. Both are making 6 figures, have houses, cars, and good bank accounts. Business moved me south as my sons also moved south out of Virginia.
Trade school educations have far more value than most “liberal studies” degree.
Sadly for the Greatt People of this land. We are going to see a LOT more of this “stuff”. Because of the fact that nobody in his right mind wants to to be a Cop during these insane period of time. So the Brass will have to keep lowering the standards to get bodies any bodies out on patrol. I am just glad that I am old and will hopefully not see the end of this Horror story