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    T-shirt designed by illegal alien cop-killer being sold by his lawyers
    Dave Gibson
    January 18, 2011


    It has come to light that a t-shirt now being sold by the Gulf Region Advocacy Center (GRACE), a Houston-based non-profit that provides legal representation to those charged with capital crimes was designed by an illegal alien who murdered a Houston police officer.

    Juan Leonardo Quintero is serving a sentence of life without the possibility of parole for killing Officer Rodney Johnson during a 2006 traffic stop.

    GRACE is selling the shirt designed by Quintero to raise money for indigent defendants for $20 a piece.

    Houston crime victims’ advocate Andy Kahan told Fox News he was shocked to learn that GRACE was selling the shirts.

    He contacted the group and reports: "They indicated it was one of their clients but they wouldn't go any further and they basically refused to tell me who it was. And then, of course, when we took a good look at the artwork, it was pretty plain and obvious it was Juan Quintero because you see his initials [on the design]."

    Kahan continued: "We certainly don't need to be giving him some infamy and immortality, or highlighting whatever artistic ability he might have, for people to walk around and wear whatever he designed."

    "[Johnson's widow] has been through enough already," Kahan said. "Now here he is, actually sitting behind bars, and people could be wearing shirts that he designed. It's absolutely gut-wrenching."

    On September 21, 2006, Houston Police Officer Rodney Johnson was shot and killed while making a routine traffic stop. The man that murdered him had been deported back to Mexico seven years earlier. However, due to the federal government’s refusal to defend the Mexican border, this human predator easily re-entered the United States, eventually killing Ofc. Johnson.

    On that fateful day, Ofc. Johnson stopped a commercial vehicle traveling 20 miles over the posted speed limit. The truck was driven by Mexican national Juan Leonardo Quintero. A co-worker and Quintero's two step-daughters were also in the vehicle.

    When Quintero was unable to provide any form of identification, Ofc. Johnson handcuffed him and placed him in the backseat of his patrol car. Once the officer was seated behind the wheel again, Quintero though handcuffed, removed the 9mm handgun concealed in his waistband and began firing at Johnson through the plastic shield separating the front and back seats. Johnson was shot in the head five times. He was pronounced dead shortly after being taken to a local hospital.

    40 year old Officer Rodney Johnson was a 12 year veteran of the Houston Police Department and a U.S. Army veteran. While serving on the HPD, Ofc. Johnson received two Lifesaving Awards. He left behind his wife Joslyn (also a police officer) and five children.

    In 2006, Clara Rodriguez, who lived in the neighborhood where Johnson worked had this to say about the murdered officer: "He was just so very nice. He was not ever mean. It just breaks my heart. I feel so very bad for his wife. He got up and went to work this morning, and this is what happened. This is what happened to one of the people who protects us, who truly took care of us."

    Juan Leonardo Quintero had prior arrests in Houston. He is a convicted child molester and DWI offender, and was deported to Mexico by U.S. immigration officials in 1999. He had been working for a Houston area landscaping company and despite the DUI conviction, Quintero was driving a company vehicle at the time Ofc. Johnson stopped him.

    On May 20, 2008, a Houston jury sentenced Quintero to spend the rest of his life in prison.


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    Juan Quintero: Sale of Cop Killer's T-Shirts Being Reconsidered
    By Richard Connelly, Tue., Jan. 18 2011 @ 10:01AM
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    ​Last week we told you about fund-raising T-shirts being sold by GRACE, the Gulf Region Advocacy Center. They featured a design by Juan Quintero, who is on Death Row for killing a police officer, and someone had started anonymously faxing copies of the fund-raising page around town, questioning its propriety.

    Andy Kahan, HPD's crime victims advocate, received a copy of the fax and began asking the same questions.

    At the time GRACE executive director Danalynn Recer told us she was baffled as to why questions were being raised, since the organization had often used its clients' artwork in the course of doing business.

    But the story gained traction, and now Recer has officially said GRACE will "re-think" the practice.

    The widow of the officer killed by Quintero in 2006, Rodney Johnson, had joined the protests over the shirt.

    "We are deeply sorry that this has caused pain to Officer Johnson's family. We do not in any way want to cause further pain. In light of what has happened, we will re-think our practice," Recer said in a written statement. "No one has ever asked or made an issue of it until now. We have never promoted any of our items as the work of a specific client, and most logo items reflect multiple artists."

    Quintero received no compensation for the shirt design, Recer has said.

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    I'm sorry, it just doesn't get much more disgusting than that! I truly believe I would have to risk an assault charge by ripping that shirt off of someone's back...

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    they talked about this today on megyn kelly's show.
    she said the design company is now thinking twice about this one

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    I am sure they knew exactly who designed the shirt and artwork. They have to due to copyright issues. They are doing damage control. Maybe there should be a victim's group who could find a way to get most of the sales and have it sent to the Widow. Fair is fair.

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    GRACE keeps the money for themselves, thats how they get money to help criminals who need help.

    I like the idea of the money going to the Widow and five kids.
    Hopefully they will not sell the shirt now that the public knows he designed it

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    Another one that was deported and came back. WHY are these family members killed by illegals not filing lawsuits? Has any one of the thousands of American citizens families sued? Where the hell are these lawyers who are so eager to fille lawsuits on behalf of illegals?

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