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Posted on 12/20/2011 9:51:28 AM PST by Altariel
GULFPORT -- Spook was chained in his front yard on 20th Street when police officers with a search warrant went to the house and one of them shot the 3-year-old pit bull, witnesses said.
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She said Spook was a gentle inside dog but was outside on a chain while relatives were outside. Clark was inside when she heard the commotion.
“If the officer felt threatened by my dog, he had time to back off. I kept hearing my child saying over and over, ‘Please don’t shoot my dog,’” Clark said. “My dog was my best friend,” she said.
Clark’s daughter, Christa Turner, 25, said several police vehicles drove up quickly and officers jumped out.
“The dog started barking and my 3-year-old daughter ran toward the dog,” Turner said. “An officer pulled out a gun and I started yelling over and over, ‘Please don’t shoot my dog.’”
Turner said she and her child were about three feet from the dog when the officer shot it in the leg.
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That's how Ruby Ridge started. Jackboots shot the kids' dog, kid shot the jackboot, jackboot shot the kid ...
And what's with the buzz cuts and shaved heads?
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This is not a federal problem. It is a state and local problem, and it would be a grievous mistake to involve the feds in it, in any capacity.
Much of the problem began with the federal government in the early 1970s, after a few police assassinations by radicals, they actively encouraged police departments around the country to discontinue what could be called “Old West” rules, and instead adopt “SWAT tactics” and weaponry in their routine dealings with the public.
This is the underlying cause of much of this nonsense, yet it was the choice of states and municipalities to accept it.
It accelerated with additional federal involvement, which was to provide local police departments a cut of federal seizures of property and money with the RICO and other anti-drug laws. In effect, they “arrested” property and money, which itself does not have civil rights, and could only be recovered by its rightful owner in superior court, at a cost of around $100,000. At its peak, $300m was being confiscated annually, with 10% to local police departments who were in that jurisdiction.
So what do local and state authorities need to do?
1) Recognize the problem, and learn that minor reforms and training cannot correct it, because it affects all parts of police procedure.
2) Demand that all funds received by the police from the federal government as grants, instead go to the elected government, with the police only getting the portion they need.
3) Discontinue SWAT policies and require police to strictly follow pre-Patriot Act 4th Amendment procedures, including getting and using warrants for all searches; suspending the use of “no knock” home invasions, except under strict supervision; and require annotation and civilian review of every instance in which an officer brandished his firearm or Taser.
4) The establishment of majority non-affiliated with law enforcement civilian review boards, that only have police on them in an advisory capacity. Create a policy by which officers who are subject of multiple complaints by different citizens are placed on probationary status, and fired if they continue with the offending behavior.
5) Weekly, random blood tests for police officers, looking for any unlawful anabolic steroid use. First use they get counseling and probation. Second use is termination and a criminal offense.
Yes, all your reform ideas sound good to me.
Intimidation. Even 'cops' in small towns are doing it...
Police also need to be held financially accountable for their actions...I don’t mean paying for the dog, either...kill the dog, lose your home.
More fine Drug War police work.
But, I would bet quite a lot that he would end up, within a couple of years, setting on a flop house bed with an empty quart of Thunderbird, playing Russian Roulette with two chambers loaded.
And then the guy with the kid blew the jackboot away. Best use of an M1917 since WWII. Too bad he didn't get more of them.
A regrettable story for the Doggie ping list.
Thanks for the ping, bamahead
Shoot a K-9 “police officer” who is charging your 3-year old child and find out what happens.
and it’s going to get worse
If you go to the first comment in the Sun Herald story, you see this comment:
once again a lie per gulfport police department the dog was not even chained on my property he was on my moms property next door no where near my front door the chain is still where it was when he was shot and the blood stains are still where they are at sorry to bust ur bubble but he was nowhere by the house!!!!!!!!! u are welcome to come by and check it out 1816 20th street....please dont judge me ,my family or my dog marky ....yOU have no heart at all a dog is what u make him....if u train him to fight thats what he will do if you train him with love thats what he will do...nice try marky u probably run around killing ur neighbors animals...
If she is who she leads us to believe and is being truthful, the dog was chained next door, not even near her front door. So why kill the dog? Especially around little children?
Ever since the Waco massacre, it seems to be standard operating procedure for police to kill the dogs first no matter what the circumstances.
Also note from the story that the person police were seeking hasn’t lived at the home for three years. The search turned up no drugs or guns, and police left without making an arrest.
wishing you Chet’s fate
I second that, dervish....
I am so sick of reading these stories. Why doesn’t it stop? What can be done to MAKE it stop?
I will never call the police. I’d rather risk dealing with a burglar myself that probably won’t shoot my dog than a LEO that probably will. It is a disgrace.
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