Woman That Stepped Between Dog and Cop About to Shoot Acquitted

[sorghum]

Doesn’t sound like a strategy designed to engender community support.

Cook claims that West Virginia state troopers are all trained to kill any dog that approaches them in the course of their duty. It doesn’t matter if the dog is aggressive or charging, or chained up with a wagging tail, like Buddy was on the day the incident took place.

http://www.lifewithdogs.tv/2016/03/woman-that-stepped-between-dog-and-cop-about-to-shoot-acquitted/

[HImom]

Wow–sounds like the civil suit vs the cop may be interesting! It’s tough being a cop these days, but pretty interesting to read the difference between his testimony and the video.

[mom2twogirls]

Part of the problem with being a cop is that they don’t police their own. The good ones stand by quietly and let the bad ones lie and intimidate.
People should be able to trust that police are the good guys.

[greenwitch]

That dog was cute and friendly.

I remember when there was a horrible mistaken SWAT operation in Maryland where UPS drivers were shipping drugs to random addresses and intercepting the packages before they were delivered. The cops thought the criminals lived at that random address and burst in, guns blazing, and the first thing they did was shoot and kill the owner’s two black Labs who were running away from them! The owner had to sit in his boxers, handcuffed to a kitchen chair and splattered with his dogs’ blood for hours before they even began to figure things out. He was the mayor of a small town nearby. Poor doggies!

[partyof5]

Let me guess, the cops still have their jobs?? Why is it that cops can lie, break the law, and still keep their jobs?

[MotherOfDragons]

A picture says a thousand words, and a video says a thousand pictures.

There was an article in Bloomburg Business week a few weeks ago about how the cost of insuring police departments for malfeasance payouts was skyrocketing. A couple of reasons were presented, but none of them touched on the obvious-when you’ve got proof of bad behavior, the cop’s word against the victim’s word becomes moot.

Good.

I’m hoping the on-body cameras being utilized, and the general ubiquitous nature of filming nowadays, will drive the bad apples out of profession once and for all.

[rumrunner]

nice to hear at a time when so many ppl think the solution to everything involves killing

[romanigypsyeyes]

One of the dogs that was rescued with my older pups (that we think was probably their dad) was killed by the cops when they raided the wrong house. He was not aggressive and the other police even admitted that he was shot while just wagging his tail.

No one paid for his death. It’s been almost 10 years and it still makes me sick.

I don’t understand how someone can just shoot a dog (of course, if the dog is attacking or a life is at risk that’s different). I guess because I’ve spent so much of my life protecting these animals.

Ugh

[greenwitch]

I looked up the SWAT incident I referenced above. There’s a Wikipedia entry about it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayor%27s_residence_drug_raid

In August 2010 while campaigning to be elected county executive, Sheriff Jackson stated, “We’ve apologized for the incident, but we will never apologize for taking drugs off our streets…Quite frankly, we’d do it again. Tonight.”[1]

Haha, even though they knew about the drugs in the package so killing the dogs had absolutely nothing to do with getting drugs “off the street”!!!

And they did, two days after that statement a woman’s dog was killed when she was being served an eviction notice. You can find details in the Wiki article about Sheriff Michael Jackson.

Sheriff Jackson is no longer sheriff, and he didn’t win the election to become County Executive but he is a representative in the State house in Maryland.

A lawsuit was filed in June 2009 against Prince George’s County Sheriff Michael Jackson; Detective Shawn Scarlata; the state of Maryland; Prince George’s County; and two “John Doe” deputy sheriffs, whose names were not immediately released.[25] In depositions, law enforcement personnel admitted that at least one of the dogs was running away when shot.[26] In January 2011, the suit was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount of money and various SWAT reforms.[27]

Legislatio
In 2009 Mayor Cheye Calvo proposed a measure that would require every Maryland police department that operates a SWAT team to submit biannual reports on its activities, including where and when it was deployed and whether an operation resulted in arrests, evidence seizures, or injuries.[28] The bill passed that same year, despite strong opposition from Maryland’s police agencies. Maryland was the first state to adopt such legislation; Utah became the second when it passed a similar bill in March 2014.