Courageous Cop Arrested for Exposing officers Suffocating guy, Shoving Baton in His Mouth till He Died

 Joliet police Sgt. Javier Esqueda could be a good cop. we are able to say this with certainty because he proved it by refusing to remain silent about the alleged criminal acts of his fellow cops and risked his career to shine light into darkness. He watched a video of his fellow officers appear to suffocate a person until he died and decided that enough was enough.

For exposing the crimes of his fellow cops, Esqueda was arrested in the week and charged with official misconduct for the “crime” of exposing criminal activity within his own department.

The complaint states that on June 10, Esqueda “knowingly performed an act with (sic) he knew to be forbidden by law to perform therein he used the laptop in his Joliet department of local government car while not on duty to access the Joliet department of local government WatchGuard system to look at a video file which was locked and he did so while during an automobile which well-versed Kendall County. All of the foregoing occurred in Kendall County, Illinois.”

Joliet captain Al Roechner orchestrated criminal charges against Esqueda after he brought shame to the department in July for leaking the video.

“What is most sad about this can be that this can be a transparent message from Chief Roechner to the frontline officers that ought to they see actions they believe are misconduct by fellow officers, they have to keep their mouths shut and stay quiet or they're going to be charged with a felony,” Esqueda’s lawyer told Patch in the week. He then predicted that Esqueda will get a goldmine – from the taxpayers of Joliet and Illinois — as a result of a future federal lawsuit that Esqueda is now sure to file against the town of Joliet and also the Joliet local department of Chief Roechner, consistent with Patch.

Because prosecutors in Esqueda’s county had nothing on which to charge the officer Tomczak says the chief visited a neighboring county to hunt out favor in charging the nice cop.

“I even have little doubt in my mind that these charges were shopped around and can County prosecutors declined, as they must, in order that they went shopping in Kendall County and were able to find a prosecutor to file these bad charges.”

“I am anticipating winning and that I am anticipating this case ends with an enormous fat federal judgment against the town of Joliet and each officer involved in these charges,” Tomczak assured Joliet Patch.

The idea that a political candidate, who did his job and exposed criminals to carry them accountable, would subsequently be arrested for this heroic act, speaks to the character of the thing blue line. When examining the case Esqueda exposed, the actual fact that this can be being covered up is horrifying.

As reported, his name was Eric Lurry.

On January 29, police targeted Lurry because they suspected him of getting a substance deemed illegal by the state.

According to CBS 2, Nicole Lurry said her husband had just finished getting his license to be a barber and was enrolled at school to become a teacher at the barber school. But in late January, the 37-year-old – who had served time before for drugs – got arrested again.

When police arrested Lurry, they put him within the back of a machine and suspected him of putting drugs in his mouth. Because the state claims the correct to kidnap, cage beat, and kill people over arbitrary substances, when Lurry was put within the back of the car, he was essentially tortured.

In a shot to urge Lurry to spit out the drugs, police held his nose closed while shoving a baton in his mouth and slapping him. This torture went on for nearly two entire minutes until Lurry fell unconscious and eventually died.

“He was suffocating,” Sgt. Esqueda said. “In my opinion, anybody would suffocate in this situation.”

For five months, the department kept the video secret while clearing the cops involved. Nicole Lurry never knew of the video’s existence until Esqueda blew the whistle after he came upon it.

Adding to the egregious act of hiding such damning evidence is that the incontrovertible fact that the audio had been turned off after the officers were seen slapping Lurry.

“It was almost just like the supervisor looks off and says something to somebody, and so you hear the sound cut out. That’s what alerted me that possibly, they were trying to urge eliminate the evidence,” Esqueda said.

“So there was a deliberate, initial act to show off the audio or get obviate the audio?” CBS 2 reporters asked Sgt. Esqueda.

“There had to be. There’s no way which will happen,” he said.

If all cops had this resolve, America would be a far better place than where we currently find ourselves.

Surprisingly enough, Esqueda has the support of the Black law enforcement officials Association, which has about 30 officers and supervisors of all races.

“He’s a member, and we’re visiting back him,” said Dave Jackson, president of his department’s Black cops Association.

“If someone’s doing the proper thing, we’re visiting stand right there with them. Sgt. Esqueda has been held as a well-respected supervisor and U.S. Marine and has served his country and his community proudly,” Jackson added.

Jackson also called Esqueda “brave also as a hero” for coming forward.

“Without Sgt. Esqueda drawing attention to the current death to city officials, this in-custody death should be pending,” Jackson said, per Patch.

Esqueda told reporters that he leaked the video because he wanted to prove that not all cops are bad.

“In light of everything that’s’ been happening – you recognize George Floyd really had plenty folks, cops. once we saw that video, plenty of people cried. People don’t believe that. But the thing is, there are lots of excellent officers out of 750,000. nobody may be a bad cop. Most cops that I do know were upset by George Floyd,” he said.

Obviously, not all cops are bad people. However, if we glance at Esqueda’s case, all the officers involved in Lurry’s death, the supervisors, the chief, literally everyone but Esqueda was willing to seem the opposite way. this is able to imply that each one of the cops within the Joliet department of local government is bad — aside from Esqueda.

Even officials outside the department of local government whose “investigation” found that depriving Lurry of air for nearly two minutes played no role in his death.

The entire Joliet local department upper administration, Will-Grundy Major Crimes Task Force, Coroner Patrick O’Neil, and State’s Attorney James Glasgow all stayed silent about Lurry’s death, highlighting the systemic and corrupt code of silence.

And now, the sole man arrested in Lurry’s death is that the one who exposed it.