Cops go overboard: shoot pets in front of children during raid

leib10 said:
I only offered a possible explanation for them.
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An explanation everyone was already aware of. An explanation that is irrelevant. And only a small few people in here expressed any "cops are scum" opinions. And those people are pretty well know hl2.net sillies.
 
Ok, so I watched the video and heard one dog in the background. Then I saw one walking into that room where the cop says "leave the dog alone". So, just to be clear, only the 1 dog was killed?

I don't really think whomever is responsible for shooting the caged dog has any way of legitimizing his actions unless "excessive barking" is grounds for deadly force. I'll ask one of the cops I work with (I'll try for a super-conservative) and see what he has to say.
 
I really don't understand what argument people have here. The dog was in a CAGE.
 
AJ Rimmer said:
Cops have to be held to a near perfect standard. They have to be almost infallible. That's the price they pay for accepting extreme special rights by society. If you have the right to use violence on people without consequence, you have to be held accountable every single time you abuse that power to any degree what so ever. No other groups of people in society have the right to beat you, restrain you or kill you except cops. That's why we should demand perfectionism from them.


No, but they should. With great powers come great responsibility.
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Oops...I didn't mean to quote Krynn. I must have FUBAR'd that one. It was addressing ZT's point of view.

Yes, I understand that their punishments should be correspondingly severe, not the least because killing a cop carries correspondingly severe punishment.

Anyway, I'll cut Krynn's post out. His was not what I'm addressing.
 
15357 said:
Looks can be deceiving.
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I live with three corgis. This gives me enough basis to say that corgis, being sheep herding dogs that work with humans closely and are extremely intelligent do not pose a threat.

Unless you call a cheerful dog who flops over demanding bellyrubs "threatening". If so, there's something seriously wrong with you.

Oh wait. You're Numbers.

Figures.

Solaris said:
Would you arrest somebody for something which you didn't think was immoral but was a crime? Say for example, cannabis possession or union shit.
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If I enforce the law of the Republic of Poland, then I enforce it in its entirety. A policeman is supposed to set an example when it comes to respecting law - he cannot pick and choose what applies and what does not.

Doesn't mean I wouldn't discharge the guy in question of he had a really small amount of cannabis for his personal use and convince my workmates to not press charges.
 
hey man I dunno it seems like most of you are ignoring the fact that the officers thought this was a high-profile, high-risk raid

I dunno maybe, just maybe it's standard protocol to shoot any dogs on sight during these raids because they're, like, dangerous
 
I'd be surprised the officers involved were reprimanded, only the most heinous acts of police brutality or excessive use of force are punished, and only if they are caught on camera.
 
I saw this a few days ago, from what I've read the pitbull may have even been caged, the Corgi may or may not have survived...either way, jebus, it's pretty messed up. The guy wasn't even a drug dealer, all they found was a personal stash of weed.
 
Hey... if they burst into the homes of a mayor and kill his dogs, I don't think an average citizen has a chance of saving the life of their own dogs.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/07/mayor.warrant/



A Maryland mayor is asking the federal government to investigate why SWAT team members burst into his home without knocking and shot his two dogs to death in an investigation into a drug smuggling scheme.

"This has been a difficult week and a half for us," Cheye Calvo, mayor of Berwyn Heights, Maryland, said Thursday. "We lost our family dogs. We did it at the hands of sheriff's deputies who burst through our front door, rifles blazing."
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Calvo said he was brought downstairs at gunpoint in his boxer shorts, handcuffed and forced onto the floor with his mother-in-law near the carcass of one of dead dogs.
"I noticed my two dead dogs lying in pools of their own blood," Calvo said.

Calvo said his mother-in-law is still recovering from the incident.

"She got the worst of it," Calvo said. "She was literally in the kitchen, cooking a lovely pasta dish, and they brought down the door and shot our dogs."

While he was being held, Calvo said, he told police he is the town's mayor, but they didn't believe him.
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If it was Baltimore, they would have ****ing known who the mayor was. Heh. They'd have the taste of his genitals in their mouths.
 
So is Police brutality kinda common in the U.S. ?
 
That's one way to make dogs stop barking. Maybe they could just tranquilize them in the future, once they invent such a cool and useful technology that they obviously would have used if it existed.
 
Doggonet, this is a pretty messed up story.
 
I figured seven pages was a pretty decent amount of legitimate discussion. Now we can get on to the real stuff.
 
You're barking up the wrong tree if you think puns are appropriate for this thread.
 
At least American cops are not like their Mexican counter parts who take bribes from drug gangs or skim money in raids.


Right ?
 
Shyam said:
At least American cops are not like their Mexican counter parts who take bribes from drug gangs or skim money in raids.


Right ?
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Well, they probably do in some cases, but not nearly on the scale that the Mexican cops do. I've personally been a victim of their shenanigans.
 
Well of course if you don't play by their rules they aren't going to throw you a bone.
 
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