Yhea...(Deceased) Donald Scott, knows that, too.....
www.fear.org/scott.html
Posted on 11/20/2011 5:50:57 PM PST by bamahead
Matthew Spaulding says he and his family were terrorized at their own home by police who slammed his grandmother to the ground and shot his dogs-- missing his head by less than an inch. "Told us to get on the ground. I got on the ground they put me in handcuffs," Spaulding recalls, "Then they threw my dad to the ground and my dog Sadie was right here sniffing my head. She was next to me. They shot her. The blood got on my face and then she took off running behind me and they shot her like three more times."
Tuesday morning, Greene County Sheriffs Deputies and Perry Police officers arrived at Spaulding's Jefferson farmhouse to deliver a search warrant. The Spauldings say they were immediately ordered to the ground.. even Matthew Spauldings' disabled father, Chris. "My son hit the ground I hit the ground but I didn't make it too fast so (the officer) jumped on the middle of my back, shoved his knee in and held a gun to the back of my head and handcuffed me. After they shot my first dog my mom come out"
"They had taken me to the ground," Chris Spauldings' mother Susan Mace says, "So I was laying with my face in the ground. And I asked them why they shot the dog because the dogs weren't close to them"
The Spauldings say after the first dog was killed, a second dog running away from the shots --- and away from police--- was also shot. "They weren't barking. They weren't attacking nobody." Matthew Spaulding says, "They didn't even give us a chance to put them in the kennel. We have a big kennel outside our house we could have put them in but they wouldn't give us a chance."
Perry Police are not commenting. And they're refusing to turn over any paperwork or reports about the incident saying it's part of an ongoing investigation. But we were able to get copies of the search warrants. One warrant shows police were looking for any kind of legal or illegal drugs. The other shows police were looking for a stolen X-Box video game system. No drugs and no stolen games were found--and no one was arrested.
Chris Spaulding says he's furious his dogs were killed--his mother was ruffed up and his son was almost killed by police---all over a missing video game system. "Some of these officers should be fired because they kinda took their job too far. No common sense. No public safety when you got a kid on the ground," he says, "That's messed up man. Right beside his head. You could have shot my son."
Yhea...(Deceased) Donald Scott, knows that, too.....
www.fear.org/scott.html
I’m kind of going ‘WTF?’ here. This doesn’t happen much in Iowa, especially out in the boonies like this one. Two warrants? A raid for an X-box, or possibly ‘legal or illegal drugs’? Too vague, too trivial, and the raid is too over-the-top.
There is more to this and I’m kind of wondering exactly what the sheriff is involved in. This sounds like a raid to hush someone up.
In another year they will be actually shooting the residents of the houses they “mistakenly” raid and they will get paid vacations as rewards for their efforts.
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If the police raid my home for no cause and killed my dogs, they may as well shoot me, too. I would not forgive and I don’t think I would like prison much.
Right or wrong— my dogs are like children to me since I no longer have kids living at home. Just thinking about this happening to my home and my dogs makes me scared and my stomach pitch and turn.
Seriously, there are too many stories of this lately. It makes me want to cry. I don’t want to get angry with police but this is unacceptable, it breaks my heart and scares me.
Kathryn Johnston was blown away by rogue cops in Atlanta in 2006. It continues to this day.
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I have 3 labrador retrievers and I often say, they’ll have to “take one for the team” to keep cops from shooting the rest of my family.
The other folks living there are lucky they weren't injured in the raid.
Now, regarding a stolen X-Box, what a phony bologna excuse ~ X-Boxes are like umbrellas ~ they are never stolen, just missing.
Who's the idiot judge who'd waste public tax money authorizing a raid for an X-Box?
A compare and contrast ~ a judge authorizes a warrant for a stolen box of dough-nuts located in a police break room.
Bwahahahahahha!
"Ruffed" - displaying or wearing a ruff.
"Ruff" - a neckpiece or collar of lace, lawn, or the like, gathered or drawn into deep, full, regular folds, worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
"Lawn" - a thin or sheer linen or cotton fabric, either plain or printed
Those cops were pretty talented to have "ruffed up" the woman.
It’s time to bring back the public pillory for these cops. I mean the full blown wooden lock-down frame type pillory. Leave them in the public square for 24 hours and allow the public to throw fruit, dishwater, donuts, whatever at them. Then fire them. They are a danger to the community.
The gestapofication of America’s civilian police force.
Nope in fact when I said payback is hell , I did not mean to infer that it was legal or wise, I only meant to point out that there is a reason these cops hit that house.
There is a hidden agenda in there somewhere. The judge who issued that Warrant should be held responsible. No Judge should issue a warrant without probably cause.The cop who asked for the warrant is the guy that knows the answers.
So, the doper college kids getting maced for blocking a sidewalk in California is the lead story on ABC’s World News Tonight this evening, but this outrage in Iowa is never mentioned at all.
ABC = Another Bunch of Crap
I suspect the X-Box ploy had to do with the judge's knowledge that there was an X-box in the fellow's room ~ and that gave the cops the authority to enter that room (I believe he's an adult and in some states ~ not Virginia BTW ~ when you have an emancipated adult that room is as private as any home and would need to be named on the warrant).
That wasn't what they were after though.
Regarding the target's understanding of law, he can split hairs with the best of them ~ he noted on his own behalf that a certain charge was an aggravated misdemeanor and not a felony!
Where the cops fail is that THE OTHER PEOPLE weren't named ~ their property (dogs) was wasted ~ they were detained ~ possibly two of them were injured (elderly disabled people pushed around) ~ and so forth.
They'll probably succeed with some personal suits against the individual officers. Desmoines is also a fairly robust town with its own breed of thugs for hire so if the people don't get what they want out of the courts they can probably obtain satisfaction some other way.
If the drugs were potentially legal, then what is the crime? I thought legal=non-criminal. Has the definition changed?
I hate cops. Thugs with badges.
I have a bottle or two of some pain killers that have street value. I obtained them legally and just didn't need to use them ~ ('cause I'm really tough).
Two things I can't do with them ~ return them or sell them. One thing anyone else can't do is hold the bottle!
I can’t say I disagree with you.
It’s no longer the 1% or 5% that give the other ‘x’% a bad name; it’s more like a 50%/50% break down.
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