I can almost picture the jackboots galt-jw was wearing thoughout that rant.
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Posted on 01/03/2003 4:20:59 PM PST by Copernicus
'Felony stop' leaves family traumatized
Mary Jo Denton
Herald-Citizen Staff
It was the most traumatic experience the Smoak family of North Carolina has ever had, and it happened yesterday afternoon as they traveled through Cookeville on their way home from a vacation in Nashville.
Before their ordeal was over, three members of the family had been yanked out of their car and handcuffed on the side of Interstate 40 in downtown Cookeville, and their beloved dog, Patton, had been shot to death by a police officer as they watched.
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About that time, he heard the officer broadcast orders over a bullhorn, telling him to toss the keys out the car window and get out with his hands up and walk backwards to the rear of the car.
Still not knowing what he was being stopped for, Smoak obeyed, and when he reached the back of the car, with a gun pointed at Smoak, the trooper ordered him to get on his knees, face the back of the car and put his head down.
When he did that, the officer handcuffed him and placed him in the patrol car. Then the same orders were blared over the bullhorn to "passenger" and Pamela Smoak got out with her hands up, was ordered to the ground, held at gunpoint, and handcuffed. Next, Brandon was ordered out and handcuffed in the same way.
Terrified at what was happening to them for no reason they knew, the family was also immediately concerned about their two pet dogs being left in the car there on the highway with the car doors open.
"We kept asking the officers -- there were several officers by now -- to close the car doors because of our dogs, but they didn't do it," said Pamela Smoak.
And as the officers worked in the late evening darkness, their weapons drawn as the Smoaks were being handcuffed, the dog Patton came out of the car and headed toward one of the Cookeville Police officers who was assisting the THP.
"That officer had a flashlight on his shotgun, and the dog was going toward that light and the officer shot him, just blew his head off," said Pamela Smoak.
"We had begged them to shut the car doors so our dogs wouldn't get out, and they didn't do that."
As the dog was heading out of the car toward the officer, "we had yelled, begging them to let us get him, but the officer shot him," she said.
Grieving for their dog and in shock over their apparent arrest for some unknown crime, the family could only wait. At one point, one state trooper did tell them they "matched the description" in a robbery that had occurred in Davidson County, Pamela Smoak said.
The ordeal went on for a time after that, the family terrified and in grief over the dog.
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Apparently, you have had a difficulty in identifying jackboots, from the statement YOU made. Apparently, you have been apologetic to cops, and now you admit a "limit." How noble!
At least it was the dogs that were shot. You seem to be able to understand the inhumanity of that. Were the humans gunned down, as happens every day, you apparently would side with the cops, after they gave the "official" story, as they always do.
I do have a limit to my forgiveness of cops!
You said it. The very statement implies that you are an apologist for cop behavior.
Congratulations on this stunning, crystalline epiphany.
Really? Where? I'll start using that version instead!
Best regards,
I can almost picture the jackboots galt-jw was wearing thoughout that rant.
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Of course, if you could read, you would have not made such an innane statement.
Posting pictures of your doggy really shows that you are so very serious.
Perhaps the next time you could leave the post blank. This could be a representation of your intellect.
sorry bout that.
The difference between you and flyer is difficult to divine.
Both of you use straw man argumentation.
At least you have the dignity to appear other than a grade school student who affixes cuddly images of animals to their arguments to impress other subjectivist emotio-cognitive drones.
Perhaps the next time you could leave the post blank. This could be a representation of your intellect.
This was meant for you, tippy.
You made a doggy! And that without finger paint. Bravo!
While I didn't follow the link, I didn't see anything here that suggests that this family was white, black or green.
If it went down as portrayed in the article, it's outrageous period.
You're hysterical. Call me when you get ahold of yourself.
My point is this: Blacks have claimed THIS VERY TYPE OF THING for YEARS. They have been summarily discounted.
I don't know what color they were, either. My point is: WE have heard this before, from the black community. And, many of us have discounted it.
You are mentally vacant. Call me when you can rent out the vast, unused space that you call your mind.
I wish to use it to breed mongrel dogs.
A) the doggy pic wasn't her post - so you're factually challenged to start with.
B) Were the humans gunned down, as happens every day, you apparently would side with the cops, after they gave the "official" story, as they always do.
1) There are approximately 740,000 sworn law enforcement officers now serving in the United States. About 10 percent of them are female.
2) Each year there are approximately 33 million crimes committed in the United States, an average of one crime every two seconds.
3) Crime fighting has taken its toll. Since the first recorded police death in 1794, there have been more than 14,000 law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.
4) A total of 1,533 law enforcement officers died in the line of duty during the last 10 years, an average of one death every 58 hours or 153 per year. There were 130 police deaths in 1999.
5) On average, more than 65,000 law enforcement officers are assaulted each year and some 23,000 are injured annually.
6) The deadliest year in law enforcement history was 1974 when 268 officers were killed. The deadliest decade was the 1970's when a total of 2,182 officers died, or 218 each year. That figure has dropped dramatically in the 1990's to 152 per year.
7) The deadliest day in law enforcement history was September 11, 2001, when eighty six New York City police officers were killed at the World Trade Center.
8) New York City has lost more officers in the line of duty than any other department, with 526 deaths. California has lost 1,176 officers, more than any other state. The state with the fewest deaths is Vermont, with 15.
Please feel free to post your blank thoughts at your earliest convenience so we can all be impressed with the clarity and equity you approach the reasonableness and abuses of law enforcement.
I just called my dog to sit on my lap. I can't imagine someone shooting my dog in cold blood.
This is so sad. No winners here.
The dog in my signuture is just a contrived image.
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