Police climb through innocent family's window, shoot their 2 dogs - No warrant, no evidence

[RandiFan1290]

http://www.pnj.com/article/20130807/NEWS11/308070025/Deputies-shoot-two-dogs

[napkinz]

1. again?

When is this shit going to stop?

[Warpy]

6. When Congress passes a constitutional amendment

that specifically prohibits no-knock warrants and the states approve it.

Until then, we're the enemy and they don't honestly care that they're misreading warrants and terrorizing innocent people while trashing their houses and killing their pets.

They're getting just as bad as police in (other) totalitarian countries. They need to be reined in. Because of our corrupt supreme court, a constitutional amendment is the only thing that can do it.

[pnwmom]

13. But there was no warrant. Isn't that already prohibited? n/t

[Hydra]

14. Not if nobody does anything to punish it

Sort of like the NSA spying- as long as they aren't meaningfully censured, they see it as a green light to keep going.

[Warpy]

16. Exactly, and a slap on the wrist won't do it.

[Hydra]

22. Even a slap on the wrist is rare these days

The problem is that sets the policy- no matter what the law is.

The incidents in Texas of women being stripped/cavity searched in public is another good example. If those officers are still working in the department after the inquiry happens, then it's open season on vulnerable women.

[MsPithy]

35. You need to do some reading. This is not as simple as good versus bad.

http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Warrior-Cop-Militarization-Americas/dp/1610392116/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1376011653&sr=1-1&keywords=police+militarization

[A HERETIC I AM]

36. Police nationwide are getting WORSE, not better.

If you haven't noticed, then you haven't been paying attention.

[Rex]

2. YAY COPS!

[PD Turk]

3. Dear god

What were the charges? Was anybody arrested? Every day I read more and more accounts of these bands of armed thugs completely out of control. How are we supposed to defend ourselves against these atrocities?

[KG]

4. yay cops!

this message brought to you by: the daily isolated incident.

[truedelphi]

9. Every 42 seconds,someone in the USA is arrsted for the evil weed in

Their possession.

And often, iover 10% of the time, it happens inside the huge state of California (37 million of us.)

Our dogs are killed in front of us. The doors to our homes are kicked in. The littlest of kids are thrown to the ground, as though they were armed, 40 year old bank robbers.

What sets this off? The DOJ, and ICE, and DEA and local police feel if they find one person in a neighborhood growing dope, then everyone else might be doing that. So no warrants, as your neighbor's behavior and the weather and growing season gives them "probable cause."

Maybe you aren't growing - but they can treat you as guilty of that till the matter is cleared up. There may be an apology then, but that apology won't bring your dogs back to life.

Maybe you are growing but have a valid California med marijuana grow card. Too bad, your state's rights mean nothing to these bastards.

And every single person they do arrest for growing means they are enabling violent Mexican drug cartels, which I guess is what they want.

Citation: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20120926/articles/120929653

[dorkzilla]

12. +1

[liberalhistorian]

40. You know, that would be a

good name for a blog on police misconduct/brutality: The Isolated Daily Incident. Except that you could daily fill it with a helluva lot more than just one daily "isolated" incident. My brothers are both cops, and they could tell some stories that would curl your hair.

[Comrade Grumpy]

43. There is this:

http://www.policemisconduct.net/

[midnight]

5. K&R

[damnedifIknow]

7. Sheriff's deputies

Once again.

[napkinz]

8. K & R

nt

[EOTE]

10. Those dogs could have been rapists and/or murderers.

Why do you support rape and murder?

[Agony]

11. THIS is terrorism. period.

Maybe some day the police will be professionals who protect and serve, today, FUCK the police.

[MotherPetrie]

23. +1

[Myrina]

30. +2

n/t

[L0oniX]

31. +3

[Logical]

15. America's finest!

[City Lights]

17. What. The. Fuck.

[RedCappedBandit]

18. Yep, the whole barrel is rotten

[Incitatus]

19. Another one from Escambia county

There's also this:



Roy Middleton, Unarmed Florida Man, Shot By Police In Own Driveway While Retrieving Cigarettes From Car.

Florida law enforcement officials are investigating reports that an unarmed man was shot by police in his own driveway while retrieving cigarettes from his mother’s car.

Roy Middleton, a 60-year-old resident of Warrington, Fla., was shot in the leg by Escambia County sheriff’s deputies on Saturday, the Pensacola News Journal reports. The shooting reportedly took place on Middleton’s driveway, as he attempted to retrieve a cigarette from his mother’s car. That’s when police arrived on the scene, investigating a report of a possible vehicle break-in, Fox 10 reports.

http://www.ibtimes.com/roy-middleton-unarmed-florida-man-shot-police-own-driveway-while-retrieving-cigarettes-car-1363207

[Liberal_in_LA]

20. kick

[AtomicKitten]

21. goddammit, stop shooting pets!!

[dorkzilla]

34. Hear, hear!

I have a very sweet JRT/pit mix who is the sweetest little girl you ever met. If anyone "accidentally" broke into my house, my poor little sweetie pie, who I pulled out of the euthanasia room at the Brooklyn Animal Control center 2 hours before she was due to take the last walk, would meet a horrible end.

Edited to add--the scumbags would probably shoot my Lab too, just for shits and giggles. And they'd probably kill my 3 kitties, especially my crazy Maine Coon, just because.

[MsPithy]

42. The militarization of police guarantees that all dogs will be shot as soon as the cops enter our

home or yard.

They burst in wearing military outfits and masks, with which the family dog is totally unfamiliar and makes them look like monsters, shouting at the top of their lungs, which sounds like vicious barking and snarling to our dogs. Any dog, even a Chihuahua, loves us and feels compelled to take a stand against this invasion. Even dogs who would never bite under any circumstances, will make themselves stiff and bark the impressive, "Get out of here I am really, really, really dangerous!" bark.

BANG.

[99Forever]

24. Fucking pigs.

[Dawson Leery]

25. Here is another case

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3429790

[Agony]

38. police use of "non-lethal" tasers is another example of terrorism by torture and murder.

We DO need a National Commission on Police Tactics, Behavior and Policy.

or as Comrade Grumpy sez --->a national commission on law enforcement standards and practices

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023429790#post6

[The Wizard]

26. The time has come

to stop worshiping uniforms. A uniform is not a license to commit mayhem, at least it shouldn't be.

[Dash87]

27. Cop_Carrying_Milk.jpg

[Link Speed]

28. The cops screwed up, but the couple's story stinks to high heaven

First, young Travis' body language is totally hinky, tweaked and fucked up. His fiancee was covering his ass.

Second, if six cops were trying to gain entrance (via front door, banging and hollering) there is no way they could have slept thru it. Look at that little house and tell me that you could sit in the den and not hear a fart in the yard.

I feel sorry for the dogs. Much like Driving While Black, Looking Like a Pit/Mastiff can write its own Death Certificate.

I don't imagine we will ever hear the backstory on this one.


Oh, and the reporter, "Where was she shot at?". That one just slays me.

[MsPithy]

39. Without a warrant,

what legal justification do the cops have to bang and holler at the front door or to climb in a window.

If Young Travis was, "totally hinky, tweaked and fucked up," in his own home it is none of your business.

The facts are: the police entered a home without a warrant and shot a dog who was cowering behind the bed. If there was any delay in getting medical attention for the dog, the cops should be charged with felony animal cruelty.

[Agony]

41. Guilty until proven innocent... got it! the new model for safety, security and justice...

[otohara]

32. Trigger Happy Cops

or taser happy in other cases of death by cops

[Spitfire of ATJ]

33. Would they do this to the family of this house?

[Brigid]

47. I think we all know the answer to that.

[MrModerate]

37. I don't own a gun and don't want to . . .

But I'd consider getting one if these home invasions by stupid, 'roided up criminals with badges were happening where I live.

[napkinz]

44. kick

nt

[napkinz]

45. with thanks to tblue37

http://www.policebrutality.info/

[KarKar]

46. Got Milk?