Probe of Old Drug Cases Raises Questions About 2004 George Floyd Arrest
19 June 2020
19 June 2020
In many of Houston’s struggling neighborhoods, a black undercover narcotics officer worked for decades, making bust after bust. He often focused not on drug kingpins, but on those much farther down the supply chain, many of them residents of public housing projects where people still dried their laundry on clotheslines. The officer, Gerald M. Goines, made numerous arrests for “dime rocks” — a tiny amount of crack cocaine worth $10. Over a 30-year career, he helped send hundreds of people to jail, the majority of them African-Americans. But now, years later, many of his old cases are being looked at ...
Probe of Old Drug Cases Raises Questions About 2004 George Floyd Arrest (Published 2020)
Mr. Floyd was arrested in Houston over a $10 drug transaction. Now thousands of cases involving the officer who arrested him and his squad are under review.
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