Police raid Md. mayor's home, kill his dogs

[BridgeTheGap]

BERWYN HEIGHTS, Md. - Mayor Cheye Calvo got home from work, saw a package addressed to his wife on the front porch and brought it inside, putting it on a table.

Suddenly, police with guns drawn kicked in the door and stormed in, shooting to death the couple's two dogs and seizing the unopened package.

In it were 32 pounds of marijuana. But the drugs evidently didn't belong to the couple.

Police say the couple appeared to be innocent victims of a scheme by two men to smuggle millions of dollars worth of marijuana by having it delivered to about a half-dozen unsuspecting recipients.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26079096/?GT1=43001

[babylonsister]

1. This is horrendous. What was the point of killing their dogs?

Because they could? :grr:

[Virginia Dare]

2. The actually chased one of them down and shot it..

this is a perfect example of our march towards a police state under the guise of a "war on drugs" and a "war on terror".

A friend of mine had her entire house searched by the police (no warrant) after being taken to the emergency room in an ambulance. The call to the cops was due to a misunderstanding with her kids' school as to what was going on.

[Jim__]

3. ...police apparently killed them "for sport,"

Calvo insisted the couple's two black Labradors were gentle creatures and said police apparently killed them "for sport," gunning down one of them as it was running away.

"Our dogs were our children," said the 37-year-old Calvo. "They were the reason we bought this house because it had a big yard for them to run in."

Over pot? Fuck this.

[wildbilln864]

4. This is indeed an outrageous action in the name of th bogus WOD!

K&R! I hope he sues the shit out of them! :grr:

[hacktivist]

5. Police State!

Every officer who fired a shot should rot in jail - every officer who protects them should lose their badge, and if I were the victim I'd be filing a multi-million dollar lawsuit which I would almost certainly win.

Cops walk around with impunity in our society. They abuse their power, they flagrantly break the law, and they demand respect that in most cases hasn't been earned, or worse has been lost.