They would likely shoot the dog anyway.
Sooner or later, these badged punks will shoot one dog too many and may find themselves facing down enraged mobs. It’s a shame that decent police officers will also find themselves embroiled in the mess to come.
This is what the “War on SOME drugs” has become. It has corrupted the cops. It’s a war on people, not on drugs at all....and a war on dogs, too, it would seem.
As sheriffs executed the warrant at the studio...
the deputy saying, "or we can detain you for six hours while we get a warrant and go to your house and shoot your dog."
So they had a warrant but needed to detain the owner while they went to GET a warrant.
Whiskeytangofoxtrot?
Please explain to me why that isn’t terrorism. “Cooperate, or we’ll murder your (extended) family.”
The problem is with the “no knock” raids.
Oregon state law reads:
164.075 Theft by extortion. (1) A person commits theft by extortion when the person compels or induces another to deliver property to the person or to a third person by instilling in the other a fear that, if the property is not so delivered, the actor or a third person will in the future:
(a) Cause physical injury to some person;
(b) Cause damage to property;
(c) Engage in other conduct constituting a crime;
(d) Accuse some person of a crime or cause criminal charges to be instituted against the person;
(e) Expose a secret or publicize an asserted fact, whether true or false, tending to subject some person to hatred, contempt or ridicule;
(f) Cause or continue a strike, boycott or other collective action injurious to some person’s business, except that such conduct is not considered extortion when the property is demanded or received for the benefit of the group in whose interest the actor purports to act;
(g) Testify or provide information or withhold testimony or information with respect to another’s legal claim or defense;
(h) Use or abuse the position as a public servant by performing some act within or related to official duties, or by failing or refusing to perform an official duty, in such manner as to affect some person adversely; or
(i) Inflict any other harm that would not benefit the actor.
(2) Theft by extortion is a Class B felony. [1971 c.743 §127; 1987 c.158 §27; 2007 c.71 §48]
http://www.leg.state.or.us/ors/164.html
Columbia Missouri SWAT dog-killing video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbwSwvUaRqc
Long, low-intensity wars: soldiers expected to act like cops, and cops gradually act like soldiers...
http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/41/872
18 U.S.C. § 872 : US Code - Section 872: Extortion by officers or employees of the United States
Whoever, being an officer, or employee of the United States or
any department or agency thereof, or representing himself to be or
assuming to act as such, under color or pretense of office or
employment commits or attempts an act of extortion, shall be fined
under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both;
but if the amount so extorted or demanded does not exceed $1,000,
he shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one
year, or both.