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Posted on 01/23/2014 4:01:16 PM PST by Arthurio
By Rachel Leigh, Content Manager - email
HOLLY HILL, FL (WFLX) - A man in Holly Hill is demanding an apology after his dog was shot when police raided the owner's house last week.
Richard Stotler says the officers were at his house to serve a warrant, but the only problem was they had the wrong address.
(Excerpt) Read more at wflx.com ...
Out here in Bumpkinworld, we had a rapist with an “unmarked car” setup [dash lights, etc] and a uniform pulling women over on I70.
We were told we should drive to a well lit, populated area or the nearest police station before pulling over for “cops”.
Couple years back a group of feral girls were creating trouble at a shopping plaza we happened to be at and every cop in the area showed up to assist.
One undercover cop, if I had had him try to approach me anywhere else, I’d have sicced the Dobes on him.
Crappy junk car, no marks or lights, shabby clothes, scruffy, Serpico-fallen-on-hard-times look.
How am I supposed to *know* who’s who, until it’s too late?
The funny side was the one feral’s mama came tearing in and started asking questions of witnesses.
She asked us if we’d seen any “excessive force” used and I said yeah, your girl really belted that cop in the face harder than she had to.
I thought she was gonna pop a gasket.
The crowd of bystanders was *not* sympathetic to the ferals.
Its happened, occasionally the victim survives.
If only these dog owners could sue the pants off the city every time this happened, maybe this carp would stop.
Actually, there was a guy - Atlanta area, I think - to whom it happened. Bad neighborhood, fleeing perp who’d run into an adjoining apartment unit, cops who pursued him to the *wrong* unit & busted in on an innocent father who flopped onto his kid to protect him while firing.
Whether the cops survived or not, the father went to prison for firing on them, even tho IMHO no reasonable person could blame a man for doing what comes natural when wakened by his door getting busted in.
As everyone who responded - I would agree that the homeowner has a right to defend his property and that no charges should be leveled against him/her. No arrest - and an investigation on the officers who mistakenly got the wrong address.
I live in Indiana and I am well aware of Iraqi insurgents dressing up as Iraqi police and having very successful raid attempts at killing US troops - several of which I aided in response after the fact!
As one of you pointed out, this has happened in the US - a tactic we all should prepare for and some have already gone through the rock drills as such!
Cops need to be held accountable for their actions - and raids are complicated events - no room for mistakes!
Ugh....
This collage breaks my heart.
If you fire on law enforcement - everyone in the house will be killed.
I agree, sue. But not the city. Sue the individual cops involved in the raid, personally, civilly, attach all their assets. Sue the individual that got the address wrong.
Cops should have to pay for and carry individual malfeasance insurance. And when their premiums get too high, they need to find another line of work.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/arizona-swat-team-cleared-marines-killing/story?id=13842029
5 SWAT Officers, 71 Bullets, and they admitted that no shot was fired at them before they shot. The family won a lawsuit, but no amount of money will bring back that little boy’s father.
Monday, December 30, 2013 6:22 PM EST Updated: Monday, January 6, 2014 6:22 PM EST
Holly Hill Police shoot dog while serving warrant to wrong house
HOLLY HILL, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35 ORLANDO) -
A dog owner is demanding a Holly Hill police officer's badge, after that officer shot his dog while serving a warrant to the wrong house.
"She was shot in the face and the neck and her side right here," Richard Stotler told FOX 35.
Lady was shot late Friday night in the backyard of Stotler's home. According to a statement by Holly Hill Police, officers came to the Elsie Avenue house to serve a woman with a warrant for prostitution charges.
The problem is; the woman doesn't live there anymore. Stotler moved in after her, and said he has no idea who the woman is.
He added when he told police, they didn't listen; going through the gate around the back of the house, where they found Lady and Stotler's other dog.
Police said Lady was "aggressively lunging" at the officer when he opened fire, something Stotler finds hard to believe.
"She's a big baby," he said, "She's a big teddy bear, she sleeps with me every night, she's just a big baby, everybody loves her."
Lady is on three different pain medications, with part of a bullet still lodged in her ear canal, and other wounds Stotler isn't sure will heal.
"She's just traumatized. She won't even come outside at night anymore at all." He told Fox 35, when the police realized their mistake, they offered to foot the vet bill. He wants the officer fired.
"This is something that should have been avoided. It should have never happened."
Holly Hill Police said they are still investigating what happened, and haven't released the officer's name or whether he will face any disciplinary action. Stotler has contacted various animal rights groups about the shooting.
He also started a Facebook page called Justice for Lady. Supporters are planning a protest at city hall on New Year's Day calling for action.
Wow, so the shooter remains anonymous. They get to hide behind the badge. Just show up start shooting and get away with it ?
having been on a serious state police force at the time I was there, can’t say it’s all that good anymore...the recruits nowadays don’t cut it...I’m not saying everyone is FUBAR...but if they can’t get an address right - and they commit some stupid injustice like “spray and pray”...we, as a nation, are in serious trouble...then again, not all civilians are former combat warriors either...depends on the situation...and the size of the raid force...I’ve done them alone, with 2 or 3 other troopers, but the address — yes we were told that if we got the wrong address and fired out weapon — it was our arse!...but that was then...
The function of the police now are to control and intimidate. The Citizen with rights, responsibilities, and obligations has voluntarily went the way of the dodo bird. They[Citizens] voluntarily surrendered their rights, responsibilities, and obligations to the Government for the promise of "security". They then became civilians that were given "privileges" by the Government they worship and grovel before.
To demonstrate this, one needs to look no further than this forum. On it one will find legions of jackboot lickers, badge lickers and worshipers who rabidly defend every action, no matter how repugnant, disgusting, or morally wrong it is. When they do this, they are not necessarily defending the police, but defending the Government they worship and grovel before, because the police represent the government and when they defend their actions, they are defending their god, the Government.
If you were not shot full of holes by a SWAT team, you would go to prison for a long time for killing a law enforcement officer.
Is that equal protection under the law? That is what I am trying to point out.
That incident was posted on this forum numerous times. The guy was murdered because he was a Mexican, lived in a nice house, married to a pretty girl. He had gotten out of the Marine Corp and went to work. The deputies had driven by his home, noticed that he was Mexican and lived in a nice house. Whether they saw his wife during the times they drove by is not known. What they did know is that he was Mexican and lived in a nice house. From they deducted that the only way a damned wetback Mexican could be able to live in a place like he did was be involved in drug selling, prostitution or stealing, maybe all three. Unannounced early one morning, they raid his house. He thought that it was a home invasion and sent his wife and child into another room, got his rifle and waited behind a couch. They shot him down like a dog. but were defended for their brave actions rabidly, fervently, vocally, and constantly by the resident jackboot lickers on this forum.
Ping
According to some, we have something that is better than equal protection under the law. We have "security". That is driven home each time a TSA agent inserts his/her finger in your rectum during an airport screening.
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