Former San Antonio police officer Philip Ortiz Jr. was handed an indefinite suspension — tantamount to a firing — after he was arrested on Nov. 7, 2021, for a misdemeanor assault charge.
Officer Philip Ortiz Jr. was arrested in November 2021 and was given an indefinite suspension. His criminal case was dismissed a year later.44 minutes ago1 hour ago1 hour agoKSAT DEALS
“If you are found to have credible allegations of domestic violence, you cannot hold a gun and a badge for the city,” Matlock said. “I don’t honestly know if he would have, but at the same time, I’m by myself,” Martinez told investigators in a video-recorded interview from that night shown during the hearing. “I don’t have my phone. I don’t have my keys. What am I going to do? Let him shoot me? Let me die there?”
“I’m all scratched up,” Ortiz is heard saying. “You hit me, love. They’re not — no one is going to believe you." However, SAPD’s primary investigator for the case, Sgt. Zachary Oliva, said “the totality of the circumstances for this case” indicated otherwise. “It kind of struck us a little bit because she’s again unaware she’s being recorded, and she’s just responding to his questions, you know, almost confused as to, like, ‘hey, why are you saying this? It didn’t happen this way. It happened this way.’ So it led us to believe that a lot of those questions were almost staged,” Oliva said.
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