Posted on 06/26/2014 2:44:22 PM PDT by BulletBobCo
A man whose dog was recently shot and killed by Salt Lake City police has posted a video of an exchange he had with officers minutes after the shooting.
Sean Kendall’s 3-year-old Weimaraner, named Geist, was shot in the head last week after officers entered the homeowner’s yard while searching for a missing child.
The video, posted to Kendall’s Facebook page on Wednesday, begins 15 minutes after the shooting, right after Kendall received a call from animal control informing him of the incident.
“Which officer shot my dog? Please,” Kendall asked several officers standing in his front yard when he arrived at the scene.
“We were looking for a lost child,” one officer responded. A neighborhood parent had reported their 3-year-old child missing earlier in the day. The child was later found asleep in the basement of the family’s home.
“And that gives you probable cause to enter a private residence without permission from the owner?” said a livid Kendall, who asked for the names and badge numbers of the officers.
“He was threatened by the dog, and he shot the dog. That’s as simple as it gets,” one officer said.
The officer who shot Geist was not at the scene at the time, though the officers gave Kendall his name.
“So backing up slowly and leaving the residence was not an option?” Kendall asked, his voice growing more agitated.
“I understand it wasn’t you personally,” he said, “but you guys killed my dog.”
I’ve had this dog for three years. He was my best friend, and he was shot because an officer couldn’t back the f*** up out of my house!”
“Is that against policy? Is that against training?” Kendall asked.
Kendall referenced a spate of cases, often dubbed “puppycides,” in which police officers shoot dogs, often with little provocation.
According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Kendall met with city police officials and wants the officer who shot Geist to be fired.
No, they’ll arrest him for challenging a cop.
Absolutely.
Even if fired, they get their past kept secret (union crap) when hired for their next cop job (county sheriff or another town cop.)
They are just practicing getting ready to shoot us in the next big uprising. Just remember, do not use a handgun, they got vests.
V C Section 21809 Stationary Emergency Vehicle or Tow Truck
Freeway: Stationary Vehicles Displaying Emergency or Warning Lights
21809. (a) A person driving a vehicle on a freeway approaching a stationary authorized emergency vehicle that is displaying emergency lights, a stationary tow truck that is displaying flashing amber warning lights, or a stationary marked Department of Transportation vehicle that is displaying flashing amber warning lights, shall approach with due caution and, before passing in a lane immediately adjacent to the authorized emergency vehicle, tow truck, or Department of Transportation vehicle, absent other direction by a peace officer, proceed to do one of the following:
(1) Make a lane change into an available lane not immediately adjacent to the authorized emergency vehicle, tow truck, or Department of Transportation vehicle, with due regard for safety and traffic conditions, if practicable and not prohibited by law.
(2) If the maneuver described in paragraph (1) would be unsafe or impracticable, slow to a reasonable and prudent speed that is safe for existing weather, road, and vehicular or pedestrian traffic conditions.
(b) A violation of subdivision (a) is an infraction, punishable by a fine of not more than fifty dollars ($50).
(c) The requirements of subdivision (a) do not apply if the stationary authorized emergency vehicle that is displaying emergency lights, the stationary tow truck that is displaying flashing amber warning lights, or the stationary marked Department of Transportation vehicle that is displaying flashing amber warning lights is not adjacent to the freeway or is separated from the freeway by a protective physical barrier.
Some jurisdictions run a “speed trap” of sorts with 2 cars. One on the shoulder with lights on and another ahead of it to nab an unwitting driver.
Killing one of my dogs for no reason would unleash an unfortunate chain of events.
Shooting the dog isn’t what really causes me to noty be so thrilled with the police: it’s the reaction of the other cops to the complaint. As if a mere citizen has no right to complain if some god with a badge commits arbitrary mayhem on your property.
In CA it is an emergency vehicle with flashing light.
On a FREEWAY.
If you can’t move to the next lane, you should slow and kind of try to be careful (sorry for the paraphrasing).
In CA you should have been OK.
But, it seems the cops are setting traps to use the ‘emergency vehicle’ flashing lights law to give tickets (revenue, who would have guessed?)
The homeowner needs to hire a high level bloodsucker lawyer,the kind that likes to see his face on the news.Then go on a legal quest against the cop and his buddies.
Were the rest of all police officers in the nation there? I must have missed that part.
Speaking from personal experience, which you apparently lack, I worked for a mid-size department that:
- arrested and fired THE POLICE CHIEF for DWI.
- routinely investigated and prosecuted the few officers who engaged in illegal or unethical behavior.
- suspended a Lt. for mistreating a suspect in custody in the booking area (fellow officers helped implicate him.)
- indefinitely suspended an officer for falsifying an off-duty roster change.
FYI, a large part of most departments’ budgets at allocated to the Internal Affairs function of policing officer conduct both on and off duty. Doesn’t sound much like “covering for each other” to me.
Hope if they find the kid they don’t throw a smoke grenade or shot the kid.
There once was a time in this country, when ordinary citizens would help a police officer in need. Now, police who find themselves in similar situations can expect citizens to continue minding their own business. The sad thing is the police have no one to blame but themselves.
And another thing, I really wish cops would quit referring to the public as civilians. To my ear, it seems to imply that they are something other than a civilian themselves.
News Flash: Active duty military are not civilians because they give up some of their civil rights when they choose to serve the United States as a member of its armed forces. The police have always had all of their civil rights both on and off the jobs.
A LEO can demand that a warrant be shown and probable cause be demonstrated before his home is searched by the authorities. A LEO can “just say no” if ordered to do a task they deem too dangerous. That LEO will probably be fired, but the fact remains that the LEO cannot be forced to do anything the LEO does not want to do.
Military members however, can have their persons and quarters searched without warrant and without probable cause, and military members can be tried, jailed, or even shot for not following a lawful order, even if that order means probable death.
So, LEO’s that are reading this, stop referring to citizens as “civilians”, it ticks off those who know what it means to sacrifice their own civil rights in order to server a higher purpose.
It may be a strange concept, but you have earn the right to imply that you are LESS than a civilian.
Cops haven’t changed, they have simply been revealed by technology. My brother was beat to within an inch of his life 30 years ago for accidentally blocking a police car at a restaurant. He was drunk, 140 pounds dripping wet, and once he was coaxed out of the restaurant they bumrushed him behind the building. Today there is a chance that someone would record the event.
Yea,that’s what I’m taking about!Dead eyes like a shark and I see they photoshopped his fangs out too.
You kill one of my dogs, you will lose ten of yours. No violence against humans, all we are dealing with here is livestock.
That's why you fire two to the chest, one to the head...
Probable cause, or exigent circumstances. Courts are really liberal with the circumstances they allow an unannounced home invasion by the government.
Some of them prefer you don't comply, it gives them an excuse to beat the tar out you. The cops don't care if you respect them in a favorable sense. If you respect them out of fear, that is just fine - maybe even better.
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