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Ursus:
Several more pics from Derek Lopez's funeral at the title link:

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Funeral for Derek Lopez, 14

Anita Baca
Published 02:57 a.m., Saturday, November 20, 2010


Denys Lopez Moreno is comforted by her sister, Yvette Lopez, left, and their mother, Sylvia Oliva, right, as they wait for the burial service to begin during the funeral for Moreno's son, Derek Lopez, 14, at San Fernando Cemetery #3 in San Antonio on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010. Lopez was shot by NISD Officer Daniel Alvarado last week. / SA


Denys Lopez Moreno is comforted by her husband, Christopher Moreno, left, and her mother, Sylvia Oliva, right. / lkrantz@express-news.net

© 2011 Hearst Communications Inc.

Ursus:
The truth comes out. Officer Daniel Alvarado's habitual lack of respect for rules, regulations, and appropriate protocols ... comes back to haunt him:

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News 4 WOAI
Police officer's past questioned in teen death

Reported by: Steve Linscomb
Email: SteveLinscomb@woaitv.com
Published: 5/23/2011 9:40 pm · Updated: 5/23/2011 11:06 pm

SAN ANTONIO - New information is coming to light about a tragic shooting last November. A teenage boy died after a North Side Independent School District police officer chased and then shot him.

According to police reports, 14-year-old Derek Lopez was killed last November after officer Daniel Alvarado came up on Lopez and another teenager who were fighting off Hunt Lane.  When he stopped to break it up, Lopez ran from the scene.  The officer pursued the boy and eventually shot and killed him in a neighborhood backyard off of Roswell Canyon Drive.

Attorneys for Lopez's family says killing the boy was not necessary, and the officer had a history of problems, including 16 reprimands in three years.

Wallace Brylak, attorney for the Lopez family, told News 4, "They were so bad that he was suspended without pay a number of times and the police department recommended that he be terminated back in 2008."

Brylak also says dispatch recordings show the officer disobeyed a supervisor's order to stop chasing Lopez and stay with the other boy still on the scene. While attorneys for NISD say they won't discuss the events of that day, they say Alvarado's reprimands never involved the safety of any student.

D. Craig Wood, attorney for NISD told us, "The officer was placed on office duty. He has not been nor will he be on patrol duty until there is some sort of formal finding."

Those findings will come from the San Antonio Police Department and the district attorney and will be presented to a grand jury for consideration.


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Ursus:
Comments left for the above article, "Police officer's past questioned in teen death" (by Steve Linscomb, 5/23/2011, News 4 WOAI), #s 1-20:

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u n v me - 5/23/2011 10:34 PM
i would like to thank mr alvarado for taking out another hoodrat.he is my kind of meskinDeadman - 5/23/2011 11:16 PM
Wow, I didnt know street fighting then running away from the PoPo is a shootable offense...Sounds like the legislatures should pass a new bill...hummmBatLover - 5/24/2011 12:08 AM
How about WOAI mentions this punks past as well as the officers?backslash - 5/24/2011 1:27 AM
FYI WOAI, the officer left the scene after gathering the information needed to be written on a report. He did not go looking for the teen. He was then waved down by a citizen stating someone was attempting to break into their home. Check the 911 calls you will see how this person called the police because of the possible burglar. The person then went outside to tell her neighbor and he waved down the NISD police officer who by mere coincidence was driving by. What do we expect him to do? Tell the citizen sorry I can not help or do we want him to take action. Come on people this story screams yellow journalism all the way with a shady reporting/story. I Wonder who investigates shady reporters who are out to make money and a name for themselves at others expense. What is the address and personal phone number of this bush league reporter so we can go to his house and ask him why he did a half ars job of reporting the truth.Roland - 5/24/2011 2:53 AM
Maybe guilt is the reason police commit suicide. Nah, cops shoot innocent people all the time. The mentality is "You can tell he's a criminal because I shot him." Thats the same Qualifyer we used to tell the Viet Cong from the the general population. Some of the readers on this post could care little about the citizens. They drink the kool-aid and blame the victims of police abuse. POLICE ARE HUMAN AND MAKE MISTAKES. STOP, THINK AND REALIZE THE POSSIBILITY EXIST, THERE ARE EVIL POLICE OUT THERE.oldman - 5/24/2011 3:46 AM
Why do we need armed police in the school district. We have a great city police force and a great sheriffs department. If trouble at the schools then we need to send the perps to detention at the city or county level. Get rid of this unneeded police presence and use the money for teachers. The school district should justify the need for armed officers to the general public.rodrma - 5/24/2011 6:02 AM
oldman and Roland's mentality make me pray for a comet that would take out the earth in one shot.niceday - 5/24/2011 6:51 AM
ROLAND, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT!!! JUST AS THIS POS KID!!!ChimichangaS - 5/24/2011 7:29 AM
If you RUN from the LAW and not follow an officers directions you escalate the problem. This is what happened here.eltoro67 - 5/24/2011 7:34 AM
It's very unfortunate that alot of people think this cop did nothing wrong. BatLover it is obvious that this kid had a troubled past and may or may not have had good parenting but this kid is not a grown up that has been professionally trained like this cop. This kid is not paid to protect everyone like this cop. This kid was definitely a troublemaker but it is not up to anyone including the cop to decide his fate. We have a court system that is supposed to take care of that. They say that this cop had a history of problems including 16 reprimands in three years. That they were so bad he was suspended several times without pay. That his reprimands never involved the safety of any student. I don't know how after all the cop's problems someone still thought he could be trusted with a gun. This cop was eventually going to kill someone. It's really screwed up that they had to wait for him to kill someone to finally decide he is not fit for street duty. For all the people that are siding with this cop, I really hope an idiot cop like this one never hurts or kills someone you care about.CavScout - 5/24/2011 7:35 AM
I love how many of these comments are based just on the information in this article. Wrong! Alverado was repremanded 16 times for administrative actions. That's paper work. He was flagged down by the lady and stated that he feared for his life when the kid charged at him. With no witnesses we have to take his word for it. Don't let your personal feelings lead to an ignorant opinion. Now, the family says he was a good kid who loved his family. This kid was as bad as they come. No bleeding hearts he didn't deserve to die because of this but he was no angel. I smell a civil lawsuit coming.dcast - 5/24/2011 8:40 AM
So backlash, now this "officer" took it upon himself to investigate a "burglar" sighting? Bottom line here is yeah that kid probably was a punk trouble maker and a pain in the rear, he probably did NOT have any type of parenting at home BUT he was still just a KID. This "officer" needs to be punished to the FULL extent of the law, lock him up, it was MURDERFreeHole - 5/24/2011 8:55 AM
So....we the people pay big money for the districts to hire ARMED guards to act against our kids? And not even well trained guards. More like our students have to live big parts of their day close to a person that can't decide if a boy will harm him or not, so the boy had to be shot. That's a great use for our money! First, the school officer should have called city police. Then he could have keep an eye on the kid, or even let him go, for a later arrest at his home. If too agressive, the boy should have been neutralized WITHOUT LETHAL FORCE. Of course there's a lawsuit coming. What would you do if a stupid grown-up "officer" killed your 14 year old son for no valid reason?woolybully - 5/24/2011 8:58 AM
Why is it when someone dies all of a sudden halo's and wings appear? I am sure that this 14 year old had more "repremands" than the officer did! Read what BACKSLASH and CAVSCOUT wrote. I too am sick of the news only reporting one side of a story. Why does the media make the police look bad? When your life is in danger who are you going to call? The police or the media? The officer deserves a medal and a raise.blackscorpion - 5/24/2011 8:59 AM
The only way school district police departments will go away is through consolidation of all law enforcement agencies into a metro law enforcement agency, as it is we are probably second in the state with the most law enforcement agencies, and we really don't need 23 city law enforcement agencies along with the constable offices, park police, airport police, and school district police.blackscorpion - 5/24/2011 9:07 AM
The way to justify getting rid of school district police is to first get rid of the police departments in these subrban cities, the constables office, the park police, and the airport police by consolidating them all into a metro police department and before we sit back and start calling these school district police officers dumb armed guards lets all remember how long it takes before we can even get a San Antonio Police Officer or Bexar County Sheriffs Deputy to respond.yotube - 5/24/2011 9:37 AM
stupid people suggesting the kid deserved it. that's why you people will never ever be good lawyers or judges. if the 14 year boy really was running from the cop, i dont care who you are. you dont shoot a kid in that situation. you are not trained to handle it in that manner. this is ridiculous. what's even more sad is the ignorant punks here who agree with that thug mentality of the cop.Carmelos - 5/24/2011 10:03 AM
What was the kids background again? Wasn't he sent to the school where the troublemakers are sent to segregate them from the other kids? Did he do anything other than run from the officer? All facts should be reported, especially after a 6 month hiatus from the story. If the kid did something to justify the response then this should be over. If the cop over-reacted and is found to be in the wrong then he should be prosecuted. From what I remember of the original story I think the officer had a reason to shoot.losvatoslocos - 5/24/2011 10:04 AM
Yea OK the paper said the kid was a habitual troubled RAT. Going from school to school cause he did'nt know how to RESPECT authority and the school system. BUT of course the family paints the RAT as a good kid that would do good things at home. Hmmm, lemme seeee. Ah ! Why couldn't the RAT apply the same good manners at school or in life in general ? Oh well yes yes he was a model person...YEA RIGHT ! Thats OK Officer you just did what you were trained to do !nate74 - 5/24/2011 10:04 AM
It's always a trajedy when a kid is killed. Sounds like the kid wasn't some upstanding kid but nonetheless a kid that probably didn't need to be shot and killed. This officer sounds like a real dandy. What other job could somebody have this kind of track record and keep their job? Only government workers. Well them too. Fire his butt and prosecute him. NISD get your checkbook out.

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DD Form 214:
He was a great officer who kept the peace!  lol

Ursus:

--- Quote from: "DD Form 214" ---He was a great officer who kept the peace!  lol
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It seems that Officer Alvarado was more interested in exerting his authoritarian control of the situation by giving chase, regardless of potential consequence and even in direct violation of a supervisor's order, than he was in "keeping the peace." From the above article, emphasis added:

Attorneys for Lopez's family says killing the boy was not necessary, and the officer had a history of problems, including 16 reprimands in three years.

Wallace Brylak, attorney for the Lopez family, told News 4, "They were so bad that he was suspended without pay a number of times and the police department recommended that he be terminated back in 2008."

Brylak also says dispatch recordings show the officer disobeyed a supervisor's order to stop chasing Lopez and stay with the other boy still on the scene. While attorneys for NISD say they won't discuss the events of that day, they say Alvarado's reprimands never involved the safety of any student.[/list][/size]

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