Officer Did Not Report Accidents, Property Injury
Workplace Hadden stated he didn’t take a report of the incident as a result of Heard didn’t request one, nor did the investigation lead him or his companion to imagine they wanted to take a report.
He stated report of a “verbal argument” doesn’t mechanically set off a home violence report. Hadden stated he didn’t discuss to Heard a few verbal altercation however stated that’s what was described on the preliminary 9-1-1 name. He added that on the decision, Heard was initially described as a “sufferer.”
After speaking to Heard and his companion on the scene, Hadden stated Heard refused medical therapy and had no indicators on bodily accidents. He added there was no signal of a wrestle or proof of property harm within the penthouse.
Officer Hadden added that property harm doesn’t essentially represent a report as a result of the house owner may have executed the harm herself. The officers solely have an obligation to put in writing a report if the harm or property harm present proof of a criminal offense, he stated.
He later stated it’s “not towards the regulation to argue.”
“I argue with my spouse,” Workplace Hadden stated.
When requested by Heard’s counsel if it appeared Heard had an harm, Hadden stated that her pink eyes and cheeks had been in keeping with crying, not an harm. He stated he by no means acquired shut sufficient to Heard to look at her face, however stated Heard didn’t inform the officers she was injured.
After being proven photographs of Heard, Officer Hadden maintained that he didn’t see an harm and wouldn’t have reported the incident.
“Simply because I see a person with pink cheeks and pink eyes doesn’t suggest something occurred,” he stated. “They may very well be unhappy as a result of their canine died.”
The witnesses within the penthouse had been additionally uncooperative. Officer Hadden stated the person on the scene was “not forthcoming with info,” gave obscure solutions and didn’t disclose the identify of Heard’s husband.
Officer Hadden stated he didn’t take notes or photographs throughout his investigation and thought of the incident closed as soon as he and his companion gave Heard their enterprise card and left the scene.
He added that he would have documented proof and brought photographs if there was a report or if Heard needed to press costs.
Actor Amber Heard attends her ex-husband Johnny Depp’s defamation trial towards her, on the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, on April 27, 2022. – US actor Johnny Depp sued his ex-wife Amber Heard for libel in Fairfax County Circuit Courtroom after she wrote an op-ed piece in The Washington Publish in 2018 referring to herself as a “public determine representing home abuse.”
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