Posted on 06/26/2014 2:44:22 PM PDT by BulletBobCo
A man whose dog was recently shot and killed by Salt Lake City police has posted a video of an exchange he had with officers minutes after the shooting.
Sean Kendall’s 3-year-old Weimaraner, named Geist, was shot in the head last week after officers entered the homeowner’s yard while searching for a missing child.
The video, posted to Kendall’s Facebook page on Wednesday, begins 15 minutes after the shooting, right after Kendall received a call from animal control informing him of the incident.
“Which officer shot my dog? Please,” Kendall asked several officers standing in his front yard when he arrived at the scene.
“We were looking for a lost child,” one officer responded. A neighborhood parent had reported their 3-year-old child missing earlier in the day. The child was later found asleep in the basement of the family’s home.
“And that gives you probable cause to enter a private residence without permission from the owner?” said a livid Kendall, who asked for the names and badge numbers of the officers.
“He was threatened by the dog, and he shot the dog. That’s as simple as it gets,” one officer said.
The officer who shot Geist was not at the scene at the time, though the officers gave Kendall his name.
“So backing up slowly and leaving the residence was not an option?” Kendall asked, his voice growing more agitated.
“I understand it wasn’t you personally,” he said, “but you guys killed my dog.”
I’ve had this dog for three years. He was my best friend, and he was shot because an officer couldn’t back the f*** up out of my house!”
“Is that against policy? Is that against training?” Kendall asked.
Kendall referenced a spate of cases, often dubbed “puppycides,” in which police officers shoot dogs, often with little provocation.
According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Kendall met with city police officials and wants the officer who shot Geist to be fired.
Good old .30-06,after 108 years still a good choice.
“Killing one of my dogs for no reason would unleash an unfortunate chain of events.”
My exact thoughts. That occifer would have to look over his shoulder the rest of his days... However short or long they might be...
Wasted ammo, 3 shots. I prefer one, thru and thru. Exhibits better gun control and conserves ammo.
Just livestock in your book.
In my book, my dog is part of my family and I sincerely suggest that no person attempt to harm him in any way.
And I am talking about pet dogs, not service dogs. The law treats crime against service dogs similar to crime against a human.
Which is absolutely ridiculous: an animal is not human.
The only thing such policies do are (a) reduce the value of real, human lives; (b) elevate government agents/property above that of even the life/well-being of the citizen; and (c) encourages the mentality that government agent
is superior-to and unbound-by normal
law (i.e. special cases).
“Unless there was probable cause...officers ain’t go no authority to enter a private home or yard.
And no...looking for a missing child is not probable cause unless the guy is a registered sex offender.”
You’re seeing the results of their behavior in Boston, where they ignored any concept of the 4th. What people who allow that don’t understand, is there is ALWAYS a ‘justification’ for ignoring restrictions. It always sounds so reasonable at the moment, but creates a justification for the same actions during lesser incidents.
That is part of what has happened with SWAT, the bar always gets lower until the sleeping child could jump over it.
The Bill of Rights exist, not for when our government and its agents find it convenient, but for when they find our rights to be INCONVENIENT.
It’s beginning to look like the hippies were right after all. The cops are pigs.....
Enough with the unfounded blanket statements. You sound like a Woodstock recyle.
SOME cops are pigs.
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Those that are silent, are complicit. And therefore pig filth also.
“One of the exceptions is “Exigent Circumstances”.”
Part of what is missed is the Constitution makes no allowances for Exigent Circumstances. That is a concept invented out of whole cloth.
Essentially “Exigent Circumstances” is whenever we want
.
Really? So you would kill some child’s father or mother because they killed an animal?
So why not kill deer hunters? They kill animals.
Oh wait. Is that your “fur baby”?
We’be been taken over by PETA.
Already happened. Killed a Police Chief if I recall correctly. I cheered.
Please elaborate - might be good news.
“He was threatened by the dog, and he shot the dog. That’s as simple as it gets,” one officer said.
VOPOS sticking together against “them” ( as in “us” and “them”).
They should ALL be fired and replaced by people who respect law-abiding taxpayers and voters who are CITIZENS not SUBJECTS.
I had an aggressive cop come to my door about two years ago. About 3:00 a.m. and I woke up to pounding on my front door and a flashlight shining in through the glass on the side of the door. My dogs went crazy. I yelled that I would be out in a minute. I put on a trench coat and had my Mossy 500 loaded up with 3-inch 00-buck under the coat that is my bedroom gun. The pounding was from a county sherrif deputy that was yelling about a car stuck in the snow in front of my house. I told him through the cracked door that my only vehicle was right there in my driveway. This cop was very aggressive and abusive saying that there may be footprints in the snow coming to my house. If he had made a move to his gun for my barking dogs or any other reason he would have gotten a face full of 12 ga 00 buck, 3-inch. Pounding on my front door with the back of his flashlight put dents in the wood and did not gain any confidence points with me and I will have less trust with my rulers from now on. If they shoot my dogs they will never have a relaxed time for the rest of their lives unless they kill me too.
The PROBLEM is the ones who AREN’T stick up for the ones who ARE.
You do not shoot our dogs and expect our compliance and respect in return.
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Correct. They demand our compliance and we pay them for it.
# 1 - Civilian Review Boards
# 2 - Residency requirements for all cops
# 3 - Civilian observers in ALL Police “Academy” classrooms
# 4 - De militarize the police. Only selected districts should have “swat” teams and NO military equipment should be given to police forces. If it gets so bad they need a Humvee or APC, call in responsible people who know how to use them - the National Guard.
# 5 - ELIMINATE Police Chiefs. Have ALL police forces report to a civilian director of public safety who can be removed at the pleasure of the governing body
# 6 - ELIMINATE police unions ) and all civil service unions for that matter)
I guess I'd have to plead temporary insanity if that happened to me.
Its about more than the dog, dammit, don;t you GET it??
Its about governmental abuse of power and civilian intimidation by a paramilitarized constabulary which behaves like an occupying army instead of peace officers.
The same jack-booted thugs who are willing to blow away somebody’s pet dog as S.O.P. are more than willing to kick down your door and blow away you, your wife and your kid under a “no-knock warrant” and apologize later for getting the wrong house.
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