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Pennsylvania state cops' raid query criticizedALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania -- The criminal investigation into the 1997 death of John Hirko Jr., whom Bethlehem, Pennsylvania police killed in a drug raid, was a biased sham, a police procedure expert said Tuesday in the civil trial about the raid.
Pennsylvania state police from the Troop M barracks in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania should not have investigated the homicide because they work closely with Bethlehem, Pennsylvania police, said John G. Peters Jr., an expert witness for four plaintiffs seeking nearly $1 billion in damages.
Peters said "independent officers" from Harrisburg or Lancaster should have investigated the SWAT-team raid at Hirko's rental home, 629 Christian St. in Bethlehem.
On April 23, 1997, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania police shot 21-year-old Hirko, who grew up in Palmer Township, 11 times and left his body to burn in a fire started by a flash-bang concussion grenade. Pennsylvania police had a warrant to search for illegal drugs.
"If the cause of the horrific episode can be summarized in one sentence, it would be that an unregulated, poorly trained, overzealous and militarized portion of the Bethlehem police department was determined to treat a rather mundane police situation as worthy of a military-scale response," Peters said.
Five months after the fatal raid, Pennsylvania state Attorney General Mike Fisher concluded the homicide was justifiable because Hirko fired a gun first. Plaintiffs' attorney John Karoly Jr. insists Hirko was unarmed.
Peters said Hirko would have been entitled to fire a gun because Pennsylvania Officer Joe Riedy tossed a flash-bang grenade through the front porch window of Hirko's home.
"They started with deadly force, and they continued with deadly force," said Peters, a Millersville University professor hired by Karoly.
Riedy, who was promoted to sergeant in 2000, shot Hirko at least 10 times with an MP5 submachine gun after throwing the flash-bang grenade. Riedy said he fired two bursts of gunfire through the porch window.
"If you cause the problem, and the person responds, you can't shoot the individual," Peters said. "You created the problem and shot your way out of it, and then said, 'I acted in self defense.' "
Pennsylvania Officer Todd Repsher, who broke into Hirko's house through the kitchen door, said he fired one shot at Hirko with his 9mm handgun. Northampton County, Pennsylvania Coroner Zachary Lysek testified Nov. 11 that Repsher and Riedy refused to talk about the raid without their attorneys.
Pennsylvania State police Trooper Edgardo Colon interviewed Repsher and Riedy after they obtained legal representation, according to trial testimony. On Tuesday, Peters criticized Colon, a Troop M officer promoted to corporal in 1998, for assuming the homicide was justifiable and for being friendly with Repsher in an interview on April 25, 1997.
According to Peters, Colon said to Repsher, "It sounds as though you guys did a fantastic job, given the circumstances."
Peters said Colon "already reached a conclusion" without seeing autopsy results. Other expert witnesses for the plaintiffs have said bullet trajectories indicated Riedy fired his MP5 submachine gun downward at Hirko while Hirko was crawling, crouched over or lying face down.
On Monday, Colon testified that a Pennsylvania state police document on the Hirko raid contained the phrase "Ruby Ridge East." During the controversial 1992 siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, federal agents shot and killed the wife and teen-age son of white supremacist Randy Weaver.
Peters said Bethlehem, Pennsylvania police used excessive force against Hirko and his fiancée Kristen Fodi, who was living with Hirko and barely escaped the fire on April 23, 1997. Bethlehem police improperly handcuffed Fodi and wrongly detained her for more than six hours, Peters said.
Fodi, Hirko's parents and the owner of 629 Christian St. are suing the city of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania former Police Commissioner Eugene Learn, Repsher, Riedy and 11 other officers. The claims in their lawsuit include wrongful death, excessive force, false imprisonment, negligence, recklessness and the violation of Constitutional rights.
Peters criticized three raid participants -- Sgt. Kirby Williams and Officers Anthony Leardi and Edward Hughes -- for interrogating Fodi without informing her of the Miranda rights to remain silent and have an attorney present.
"That's like having the rapist interview the rape victim," Peters said.
While cross-examining Peters, city defense attorney Stephen Ledva focused on police suspicions that Hirko and Fodi bought and possessed illegal drugs. Peters said police found "a very miniscule, almost immeasurable amount" of heroin at the Christian Street home on April 24, 1997.
The heroin found in the house weighed gram and was worth about $80, Karoly said. On May 8, 1997, Fodi was charged with possession of heroin, possession with intent to deliver heroin, criminal conspiracy, possession of a small amount of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. The charges were dismissed by 2001 after Fodi completed a six-month probation program for first-time offenders.
Officers have said they stormed into Hirko's house in a SWAT-team raid because confidential informant John R. Neison IV, a Moravian College student, claimed Hirko had a gun by his side and was "speedballing," injecting a mixture of heroin and cocaine. Autopsy results show Hirko had a small amount of cocaine in his blood but no traces of heroin.
Karoly plans to rest the plaintiffs' case when Peters is done testifying. The trial began nine weeks ago and is scheduled to resume Monday with Ledva's cross-examination of Peters.
The lawyers are scheduled to appear before U.S. District Judge James Knoll Gardner today to identify exhibits and deal with some trial issues. One issue that may be discussed is whether Gardner will allow Neison to avoid testifying by invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
Before the trial began in September, Karoly said he would settle the case for $20 million. The city offered $500,000, which is the maximum amount that would be covered by the city s liability insurance.
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