Cops: "If we have to get a warrant...we’re gonna shoot and kill your dogs"

[Courtesy Flush]

http://reason.com/blog/2013/12/05/cops-if-we-have-to-get-a-warrantwere-gon

Then he said one police officer started threatening him saying, “If we have to get a warrant, we’re going to come back when you’re not expecting it, we’re going to park in front of your house, where all your neighbors can see, we’re gonna bust in your door with a battering ram, we’re gonna shoot and kill your dogs, who are my family, and then we’re going to ransack your house looking for these people.”

The article says this is not illegal. While I think it should be, the cops can easily get around it by killing the dogs without any warning at all.

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

1. These clowns give the porcine...

...a bad name!

[darkangel218]

8. Lmao!!!

[msanthrope]

6. Actually, the Fourth Amendment worked just fine here....it's the Missouri State Code that needs

tweaking to allow the prosecution of the cops for a 'criminal threat' under 'color of law.' Because this cop's actions are totally outrageous, and should be prosecuted.

[Dawson Leery]

3. O.K. Then we will bust your "union".

http://jonathanturley.org/2013/12/05/missouri-lawyer-accuses-police-of-threatening-to-kill-his-family-pets-and-kick-in-front-door-if-he-insisted-on-a-warrant/

[TheKentuckian]

4. Terroristic threatening and gross misuse of authority.

Such a cop should be facing a score of years in prison for such an utterance on duty as yes a person in such a position as the threatened should have the right to self defense and the right to defense of their household, including deadly force on such an invader.

[msanthrope]

7. State law should be amended to make this a crime. I agree. nt

[NuclearDem]

5. Bullshit.

I saw a cop bringing someone a jug of milk once.

[Lizzie Poppet]

9. This makes me so fucking angry.

My initial reaction is to think, "Thanks for the warning, asshole...now I'll always be expecting you fascist shitworms...and I'll be ready."

[Jesus Malverde]

10. The war on drugs made pets a target of the militarized police.

They need to neutralize something, they would shoot people but that involves a lot of paperwork.

Dog was in a house containing drug paraphernalia and for the safety of the officers the dogs were shot.

Is this Colombia, mo or Fallujah?

[Comrade Grumpy]

11. We can bitch and moan about case after endless case of police misconduct, but...

What is going to make things change?

[Egalitarian Thug]

21. Exactly. There is no motivation to make any changes beyond further escalation. n/t

[Savannahmann]

12. Fuck the Police

When you are all serving on a Jury, the thing to remember is this. The biggest liar in the courtroom is the jackass wearing a badge. If it is just the cops word against the defendant, and there is no direct evidence, find the defendant not guilty.

[Logical]

14. I agree, people in this country trust the cops too much! Raised that way. nt

[pscot]

15. All cops lie

[Dawson Leery]

16. +1

Read policeone.com. They openly discuss how they train coppers to lie.

[Savannahmann]

17. I've mentioned my own experience a couple times

Someone once asked me if I had considered joining the police. I told them I didn't qualify, my parents were married.

[msanthrope]

19. They testilie. nt

[Logical]

13. Wow, imagine any other employee treating anyone like this? Cops....

Have no downside to being total assholes?

[lpbk2713]

18. They love the smell of blood and gunpowder in the morning.

It smells like Totalitarianism.

[RedCappedBandit]

20. Cops and their defenders wonder why everyone hates them. lol.

[Rex]

22. So laws really are written for different groups of people, thought so.

Done by anyone non-LEO, this would be considered a 'threat of violence' and at least investigated by LEOs!