I think it is a down right shame that ANYONE would behave in such a manner. They ALL should have been arrested and thrown in jail. Our VPD is one of the finest and should be respected. They sure aren't there for the money!! I, for one appreciate the fine work that the VPD does!!

Sailor,
Honestly that wasn't my intention,lol. Those numbers originate from an entirely different source but that is quite coincidental isn't it?

Podunk: your every word is absolutely dripping with stupidity. If you claim to know so much about it, even more than those of us that have to live with it day to day and have chosen to enlighten all of us as to the true reasons someone becomes a cop then I have a question for you. Were you one of the few people that went into it for those reasons and soon learned that an actual commitment and sense of responsibility has to accompany the right to wear a gun and shield private citizens with the power that accompanies the badge?? Maybe the REAL cops around you soon let you know that an attitude such as yours was not tolerated. I don't know that for sure, just musing a little.

I hope for your sake that you will learn to get past this unwarranted, uninformed prejudice you have against law enforcement. You telling us to " Shove it in our ears" is all the example we need of your immaturity and ignorance.

If you care to know, more police officers are killed in the line of duty in small towns than anywhere else. Most of those at domestic disturbances. If your standard of worth for our pd is that none have been killed yet than please God don't let it take my husband being killed to reach your high standards.

Oh and by the way, I think next time I see Sgt. Huerta I'll give him a big hug and kiss and tell him thanks.

So now it's the "Tyler has refused time after time to not take cases of threats or assaults against officers." Please show us the proof or is this another one of your brother's complaints passed on to you so you can make false accusations on this forum AGAIN.

Back to the Grand Jury ... after all the complaining Ure did about Tyler not taking cases, you expect us to believe that if Tyler didn't present a complete case (involving possible assault to peace officers) to the Grand Jurors, we wouldn't have heard about it from Ure or his department. That's a joke. It would have been plastered all over the media like everything else. Again, the officers who testified know exactly what was said and what was presented as evidence. If the video was so "clear" and the officers' testimonies were strong, then why didn't the Grand Jury indict?? Are we going back to how incompetent they must be (someone else's arguement, not mine)??

No, chatty, that is not the message the Grand Jury is sending our town. A message (different from yours) is being sent to the VPD loud and clear.  As for them seeing the video, Sailor knows darn well the ENTIRE video was presented as well as personal testimony from the officers involved. If it hadn't, we would have heard Ure screaming from the rooftops by now. The fact is the Grand Jury didn't indict for a reason, and it wasn't because they didn't have all the evidence.  Before you get on here Scott and start calling me names, let me remind you and others I support the VPD ... when they do their jobs the right way.

Advocate labeled their video link "Callis St Scuffle."
Scuffle?
What an understatement.
Advocate, please re-name link to “Assault on VPD Officers”

VPDWife, Delight, Surfrider and yes CG23Sailor (don't fain't),

I am one hundred percent behind the police in this instance. I have seen the video. Yes dark in some cases. But, the bigger issue, is the lack of respect for the law enforcement.

I don't understand the GJ no billing the family. Does cases such as attacking police have to go before a grand jury first? Okay maybe I missed something lawish for a second.

Law enforcement personnel never know when they answer a call who or what they will encounter. Sadly I second cousin who was DPS in a near county shot many years ago because he came upon a drug runner who was pretending to have car trouble in a road side park. Was a ruse for an excuse to be there.

Maybe noone has been killed lately in Victoria in law enforcement. So what. Is that how we measure their value. I think not. What about the next time there is a fire or you need an ambulance. Since one of them has not been killed lately how about the dice being rolled and they skip your call.

The officers at that call and all others should have the respect of all citizens. Bad apples should be weeded out. Victoria is not that big, if they exist,it will come to light.

But the family at that call have no excuse for what they did. They should all still be in jail chilling. The grand jury has sent the message to the town that you can do anything you want and ignore the police...I am glad the council is behind the officers.

PodunkTX I hope you never need help. your attitude stinks.

Podunk your ignorance never ceases to amaze me. No wonder you are one of the most hated people on this website.

I too am married to a VPD officer and get sick and tired of seeing them bashed. We have been through so much as a Law Enforcement family from missing Christmas together, to emergency room visits from job injuries to waiting on HIV tests to come back because someone has bled all over him. He gives his ALL when he puts on that badge and it's sickening that there are people out there who spend every second of the day hating him for that and criticing his every move. I'm not saying he is any better then anyone else or works any harder. I'm saying they go through hell and back for the people who love and hate them and it makes my heart ache to see awful things written about them. There ARE honest and good officers out there and VPD has MANY of them.

You want to know what's really hard about all of this crap?? Listening to people day in and day out run off at the mouth about things they have no clue about.

Here is a little truth for you, those officers lay their live on the line every day for us. I happen to be one of the people that gets to kiss one of them goodbye everytime he goes to work and wonder(always wonder)is he gonna come home?? We have kids and when my children are scared because they have heard of or seen a video where people are hurting the men that they know are out there to protect us then that is ENOUGH!!!!! They do what they are trained to do.

Imagine this, you are called to a house in which you've either never been to or been to many many times and you don't know what's going to be awaiting you. Maybe the nutjob finally lost it and is gonna come out shooting...maybe the boyfriend finally had one too many. In this case what would you do??? If you knew that one person in the wrong frame of mind could take you away from everything you know and love, what would you do.

Yes, they know when they go into the job what is expected. Do any of you honestly think they go into it wanting to fight people? make people spend hard earned money on tickets? or god forbid have to shoot someone?

NO, they do this because occasionally they get to help someone. Whether it is taking groceries to the old lady who has noone, or giving toys to kids that have nothing. They get to help. I am so tired of this town judging without knowing and scorning with no thought. These men are some of the kindest, most caring and upstanding men I know. Most importantly though they are men just like you, with wives and children, mothers and fathers. The difference is they are never free to just let go, if someone makes them mad they don't get to go off and knock the crap out of them. They have to exercise unbelievable restraint at all times. They are hit, kicked, spit on, urinated on, bit and any other foul form of human behavior you can think of. They get to hear these criminals tell them things like, " when i get out i'll find out where you live and get your family". It happens, why do you think most officers have unlisted numbers??

Sailor, You have to forgive Podunk. He's nothing more then a whiny pescimist. He apparently thinks a police officers job is so easy so he picks apart everything they do. If maybe he would stop and think, does he go to work wondering if he will return home to see his family? Does he have to wear a gun for protection? Does he have to be audio and visually recorded at work? Spit on? Cussed at? NO!! But he sure as hell cries like a baby about Sgt. Huerta who probably put him in his place for being the "you know what" that he is. People like podunk are so unhappy and virtually have little to no friends. I'm sure the shoes fits here as well

I'm going to just come out and say it. If this was an anglo family and neighborhood the whole street would be in jail. Why are we having to justify what our police officers are doing in a cut a dry case like this. Yes there has been instances where the police have used excessive force. Not here, not this time. Like I said look where it occurred and look at who's involved.

Ok I'm going to leave this thing with one final thought. It was only a few (about 5 - 6) years ago that gang activity was hot and heavy here in Victoria. There were shots fired many of which hit their target, weekly, even daily there for a while. It was all over the papers and television. Heck it got us rated nationally as one of the most dangerous places to live in the United States. Ladies and gentlemen, we haven't had anything in the last few years even close to what it had been. It's not cause all the gangsters chose to put their guns away, go to college, and start a new life to live the American Dream. It's because our police forces did some phenominal work to put these people behind bars, so that we could pursue our American dreams.

I don't know sailor, perhaps they will realize they messed up when one day they have to call 911 for an emergency, and a prostitute answers the phone. Then as they're waiting at an accident scene for police to show up, a lowered rusty cadillac with 20" gold rims, emergency lighting and sirens, comes screaming up to the accident scene at 90 MPH. lol

Sailor we don't know if tyler even allowed them to watch the video, and if he did, I just wonder how he narrated it for them. The only thing we can be assured of is that the jury wasn't allowed to watch the video from start to finish then allowed to draw their own conclusions. Wonder why that is. Nope, you know Tyler had to serve it up to them the way he wanted it presented. Why would you not allow them to watch it, then if questions arise, gee perhaps we should ask the officers that were there. Now that would be case presentation. Heck all Tyler would need to do is keep his mouth shut and get ready for trial.

Very good points Sailor. Its sad really...they're watching our back...who is watching theirs?

Danciana, thanks for the positive remarks. My husband and brother are both police officers here in Victoria. Both are really decent and honest guys. I know we have a few here that make the department look bad, but most of the officers are just hard working family men and women. Yes, I would love for my husband to find a job a elsewhere because of all the mess between the different agencies. My husband says the same thing about family violence, he would rather take a call in bar then a home. If our community leaders would wake up and see what Victoria has turned into and work together to clean it up, it might be a nice place to live again.

Ya I don't know why the GJ didn't indict them either, it was pretty clear in the video who the agressors were. I would speculate that it has something to do with the way the case was presented on the part of the prosecuting attorney. The old saying goes "you can indict a ham sandwich". Wonder how much effort was actualy put forth by tyler to prosecute this case. I agree with danciana on this one. If the day has come that our boys in blue can't protect themselves, and if the day has come that a jury will send the message that assaulting an officer is not something you should be locked up for, then I'd say the day has come for these guys to move out of this place, and work somewhere else and I wouldn't blame them if this place put such a bad taste in their mouth that they got totally out of law enforcement.

Come on Podunk, I am NOT naive enough to think that police brutality doesn't happen, I have seen it on television also, however usually you are innocent until proven guilty, right? The Victoria police department was guilty in the citizens eyes from day one and you know that. Hence the family not even being prosecuted. As I stated earlier, is it going to take one of our finest getting murdered before people open their eyes to what is going on? If so, I hope that all police officers and their families re-think the job they are doing for the city of Victoria!

I don't see how the Grand Jury missed the obvious in the video.

If I had been on that GJ, I would have voted to return an indictment against them.

Thank goodness the VPD has been vindicated!

I am not from Victoria, nor am I now, just working in the area, however I have been following the D.A. and police case and the rest of that mess for a while. My husband is also a Police Officer and I thank GOD that he doesn't work for Victoria. Victoria expects the police officers to do a job which the D.A. and citizens don't allow them to do. Since WHEN does a police officer get accused of abuse when protecting himself while being attacked??? And the family didn't get charged for assault on a peace officer??? Are you kidding me??? My husband has always said the most dangerous place to be is not in a bank robbery or such, it's in a family violence case. How many of you people have ridden along with a police officer? I know it's allowed. I'm not sure what Victoria is expecting from it's police force, but if it is protection, how about showing some loyalty and pride in the force in return? And if you believe the CRAP coming out of the D.A.'s mouth, then you have lost from the very beginning. You need to get that man out of there before your police force gets murdered right in front of your eyes while the D.A. is protecting the criminals. As Earl Pitts says "Wake up Victoria".

From what I have read, the family who attacked the officers were not indicted by the grand jury for the assault on a peace officer charge. BUT WHY WONT THE D.A. FILE THE RESISTING ARREST CHARGES??? They can do that I believe so why wont they?

Good job council. Prosecute these people in municipal court. I don't know why it's having to be done this way because there's never a justification for assaulting a uniformed police officer and why these people aren't on their way to prison for it I'll never know. So get after it, make an example of them. Make the statement that assaulting an officer will not be tolerated.