{"id":209543,"date":"2020-06-29T07:24:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T07:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=209543"},"modified":"2020-07-01T05:01:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T05:01:26","slug":"fired-cop-kills-man-3-dogs-gets-rehired-and-shoots-innocent-dad-through-a-door-still-a-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=209543","title":{"rendered":"Fired Cop Kills Man, 3 Dogs, Gets Rehired and Shoots Innocent Dad Through a Door \u2014 Still a Cop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Agorist \u2013 Activist Post June 28, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a>Simpsonville, SC<\/span><\/em> \u2014 In case after corrupt case, we have reported on police officers who shoot and often kill entirely innocent people \u2014 on video \u2014 and face no consequences. Even when they are caught lying about what actually happened, the officers involved in the shooting and the subsequent cover-up, are almost never held accountable. Case in point, the following story out of South Carolina in which a cop walked up to an innocent man\u2019s home, shot him through the window, lied about it, and the department ruled that he \u201cbroke no laws.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

On the night of June 14, 2019, Dick Tench and his wife were sound asleep when Greenville County deputy Kevin Azzara walked up to the couple\u2019s home, rang the doorbell and then shot Tench four times before he could even open the door. The entire scene was captured on the officer\u2019s body camera, and department\u2019s original version of events did not match the video at all. Despite the blatant discrepancies between what the department claimed happened and what actually happened, Azzara was ruled justified in his actions.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a lawsuit filed this week in federal court<\/strong><\/span>,<\/a> we\u2019ve learned that this cop has been involved in an unjustified shooting and allowed to remain a cop \u2014 despite being terminated from his previous job as a cop.<\/span><\/p>\n

Azzara was terminated from a New Jersey police department for an unjustified shooting when he became a gypsy cop before moving to South Carolina, who gladly hired the dangerous officer. Despite his history of violence, the police union has no problem supporting his actions.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat was our position from the beginning, that he broke no laws, he broke no policies, he didn\u2019t do anything wrong,\u201d<\/strong> Michael Laubshire, an attorney with the South Carolina Fraternal Order of Police who is representing Azzara, told<\/a><\/strong><\/span> The Greenville News<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the union, walking up to an innocent man\u2019s home and attempting to murder him as he looks out the window is completely within policy. Sure thing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Naturally, this is a statement with which Tench and his legal team strongly disagree.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c(Azzara) was hiding behind a wall and shot me at a 45 degree angle,\u201d Tench said. \u201cThat\u2019s what happened. I\u2019m laying on the ground with three bullet holes in me, dying.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Tench admits in a lawsuit that he has a concealed weapons permit and was holding a gun that night but never once pointed it at the officer. Also, he was inside his own home and had committed no crime.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDick Tench still has a bullet in his hip that reminds him of the shooting every day,\u201d Tench\u2019s attorney, Beattie Ashmore, said. \u201cNothing has ever been done by Greenville County Sheriff\u2019s Office. The complaint alleges that this deputy was terminated his rookie year in New Jersey and unsuccessfully sued to get his job back. We further allege that he was then hired by GCSO and prior to shooting Dick he shot and killed three dogs and a person. The GCSO then lied about what happened by saying Dick opened the door and pointed a gun at the deputy. Thankfully the body camera video proves that Dick was shot in his own home through his front door window. Dick and Cindy want accountability and better training for local law enforcement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the department\u2019s original \u201cofficial story,\u201d when Azzara came to the door, Tench opened up the door and pointed a gun at the deputy. However, after you watch the video below, you can clearly see that this is not the case at all.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tench never even had a chance to open the door and was merely looking through the window when the trigger happy deputy opened fire on him.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Sheriff\u2019s Office\u2019s statement for weeks after the shooting was that my client opened his front door and aimed at a deputy and you can look at that body cam \u2013 that ends that version,\u201d Ashmore told The Greenville News<\/em> last year after the Sheriff\u2019s Office released the clips of footage. \u201cIt\u2019s difficult to explain how something like this could have happened.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

For several weeks after the shooting, the department protected the deputy\u2019s identity by refusing to name him. Only after they cleared him, did they release his name.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the lawsuit, Azzara never identified himself as law enforcement prior and never activated the blue lights or siren on his vehicle while he was at the Tench\u2019s house.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never been a cop. I\u2019ve never been around anybody who\u2019s had to make those split second decisions \u2026 but it was a bad one,\u201d Dick\u2019s wife, Cindy Tench, said. \u201cWithin a half hour of kissing your spouse of nearly 40 years goodnight and the next thing you know he\u2019s in the foyer bleeding to what we thought could have been his end\u2026when you wake up to that.. you have no clue what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As the video shows, the sound on the body camera is silent for the first 30 seconds, including when the deputy fired his gun. It never shows the door open, completely blowing the department\u2019s claims out of the water. However, the audio does pick up the conversation after the shooting, clearly showing the irresponsible nature of the deputy and the department.<\/span><\/p>\n

After he was shot, Tench yells to his wife to \u201ccall the cops!\u201d The deputy then responds, \u201cI am the cops!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWho are you? Why are you here?\u201d asks Tench as he sits on the ground with multiple bullet holes in him.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI saw lights and I heard the door bell ring, so I got my gun. I\u2019m a concealed weapons guy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Several seconds later, Tench asks, \u201cWhy did you do that?\u201d and the deputy responds, \u201cYou pointed a gun at me, man.\u201d The man replies, \u201cDude, you came to my house at 12 o\u2019clock at night, I\u2019m sleeping. [Expletive], I\u2019ve got to protect my house.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The deputy then tells him that someone hit a panic button on an alarm. But the Tench\u2019s don\u2019t have an alarm.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have an alarm,\u201d Tench says.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tench saw reflections from the deputy\u2019s flashlight and came to see who was at his home, wondering if an intruder had broken into his house, Ashmore said, according to The Greenville News<\/strong><\/span>.<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe carries a concealed weapons permit,\u201d Ashmore said.\u00a0\u201cThat\u2019s a four-hour class where they teach you to first know what you\u2019re shooting at when you first pull the trigger. Apparently, the officer didn\u2019t attend that class.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

According to police, the deputy was responding to a medical emergency alarm that was triggered. Police claim that when they called the number associated with the alarm, no one answered. So, instead of sending an ambulance to the medical emergency<\/strong>, they sent a known trigger happy cop \u2014 who actually created his own medical emergency.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tench was struck once in the pelvis and once in the aortic artery. Luckily, he survived, but he was hospitalized for 30 days before they could even remove one of the bullets. The bullet in his pelvis will have to remain in the 63-year-old man\u2019s body for the rest of his life.<\/span><\/p>\n

TFTP predicted<\/a><\/strong><\/span> that this deputy would not face any charges as this is the standard operating procedure for most departments. However, we had no idea that Azzara had been in this situation before. According to SLED files, Azzara is no stranger to shooting and even killing people. Just two years ago, in 2017, Azzara shot and killed a Simpsonville man. In 2016, documents show that he shot that same man\u2019s dog. Like this shooting, he faced zero accountability.<\/span><\/p>\n

When the department released the video, they did so with their official narrative, attempting to justify every action the officer took along the way. Now we see why. However, we have the unedited one below. As you watch the video below, remember that this man had harmed no one, broken no law, and was safely asleep in his home when a cop came to his<\/em> door and shot him<\/em>. Had the man who shot Tench been a regular citizen, rest assured that a manhunt would have been<\/strong><\/span><\/a> launched and news alerts rolled out. However, because the shooter had a badge and a gun, not only was there no manhunt, but the shooter is still getting paid by taxpayer dollars. Shameful indeed.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople say they have a tough job and everything\u2026 And they do. But there\u2019s also innocent people out there getting killed every day,\u201d<\/strong> Dick said. \u201cEvery day getting killed by bad decisions. They need better vetting and better training.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n