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Buffalo Woman Says Police Raided Wrong House, Killed Her Dog
WKBW (Buffalo) ^ | August 30, 2012 | John Borsa

Posted on 09/04/2012 11:12:10 AM PDT by Altariel

BUFFALO, NY (WKBW) - When Rita Hairston's husband died five years ago, she adopted a dog to keep her company and help her through an emotional time.

Prada was 5-years-old at the time. The black Labrador Retriever became more than a pet, but a part of Hairston's family. A companion.

Last Saturday morning, she returned to her E. Morris Ave. house in University Heights in Buffalo and discovered her home had been broken into and Prada was missing.

There was a puddle of blood on the floor and bullet holes in the door of a bedroom where Prada slept.

But it was not a burglar who broke in. Hairston found a search warrant, signed by a judge, issued to the Erie County Sheriff's Department, on her kitchen floor.

Hairston said police raided her home, searching for cocaine, connected to a man named Lance Thompson.

Hairston said she rents another home she owns to Thompson, who dates her daughter, but he does not live in her residence and she has absolutely no connection to his alleged illegal activities.

A spokesperson for the sheriff's office said they had probable cause to search Hairston's residence because Thompson's alleged drug activities were suspected to take place from Hairston's house on occasion. The home which she rents to Thompson was also searched.

Deputies were forced to shoot and kill Prada during the raid because he threatened them, the spokesman said.

No drugs were recovered from Hairston's home.

Watch Eyewitness News at 11:00 Thursday night for more on this story.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 2012; assholecop; buffalo; cocaine; cop; cops; dog; doggieping; donutwatch; drugs; drugwar; govtabuse; labradorretriever; militarizedpolice; newyork; police; policebrutality; policestate; rapeofliberty; tyranny; warondogs; warondrugs; wod; wodlist; wosd
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1 posted on 09/04/2012 11:12:20 AM PDT by Altariel
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To: Altariel

Yet another for the donutwatch ping list.


2 posted on 09/04/2012 11:13:22 AM PDT by Crazieman (Are you naive enough to think VOTING will fix this entrenched system?)
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To: Altariel

I always wonder are the cops required to ‘guard’ the door after breaking it down from such a ‘visit’? Can they simply walk away after destroying the property?


3 posted on 09/04/2012 11:15:34 AM PDT by Theoria (Romney is a Pyrrhic victory.)
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To: Altariel

Maybe the cops are shooting the dogs so that they can send them to Obama so he has a taste of his childhood to enjoy.


4 posted on 09/04/2012 11:17:53 AM PDT by History Repeats (Drink plenty of TEA, but avoid the Koolaid.)
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To: Altariel

The cops must have been afraid of being licked to death.


5 posted on 09/04/2012 11:20:52 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: Theoria

Unfortunately, yes. In bad areas, this can lead to your house being looted while you’re trying to get out of jail.


6 posted on 09/04/2012 11:21:41 AM PDT by Little Ray (AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: Altariel

On my Bucket List would be:

Every cop involved.
Every Supervisor involved.
The Judge who signed the Warrant.

L


7 posted on 09/04/2012 11:22:52 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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8 posted on 09/04/2012 11:23:49 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Crazieman

Give it a Pepsi so it will “Come Alive”.


9 posted on 09/04/2012 11:24:15 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Altariel

Well they had to shoot something otherwise it’s not a good outing, and of course, why not an unarmed dog doing nothing more than protecting its home from intruders.


10 posted on 09/04/2012 11:24:15 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Little Ray

The cops are your friends. (though they do tend to shoot your best friend these days)


11 posted on 09/04/2012 11:24:40 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Altariel
Deputies were forced to shoot and kill Prada during the raid because he threatened them, the spokesman said.

I bet he did. That is why the dog's body is missing... More likely it was shot from behind.

12 posted on 09/04/2012 11:25:03 AM PDT by VRWCarea51
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To: Altariel

I think I’d be more upset with my daughter and her “boyfriend” than the police.


13 posted on 09/04/2012 11:25:22 AM PDT by Dogbert41 ("...The people of Jerusalem are strong, because the Lord Almighty is their God" Zech. 12:5)
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To: Dogbert41

“I think I’d be more upset with my daughter and her “boyfriend” than the police.”

Funny how that gets skipped over so it becomes all about the Jack Booted Thugs at “the wrong house.”


14 posted on 09/04/2012 11:28:04 AM PDT by jessduntno ("Racism is not dead...it is on life support - kept alive by politicians..." - Thomas Sowell)
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To: Crazieman

Lets try it this way, for a change...

The owners were forced to shoot and kill the deputies during the raid because they threatened them, the spokesman said.

The department will clean the apartment immediately, as well as repairing any shot damage.


15 posted on 09/04/2012 11:28:24 AM PDT by benewton
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To: Dogbert41

The daughter and boyfriend weren’t the ones who intruded on the woman’s property in this instance.


16 posted on 09/04/2012 11:30:44 AM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: Altariel

law enforcement has morphed into a kind of paramilitary.

Sure, cops as we know them still write traffic tickets and respond to robberies, etc... but it seems all arrests now of any felonies seem to be done by the SWAT style guys.

Not a good sign for our future liberties.


17 posted on 09/04/2012 11:31:30 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Paladin2

The cops are not your friends. Talk to them with caution. Always make them fulfil the requirements of the law (”Get a warrant”) and don’t talk to them under adversarial conditions without a lawyer.


18 posted on 09/04/2012 11:31:50 AM PDT by Little Ray (AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: Altariel

I really believe they teache these contemporaruy NAZIs at the police acadmies to always shoot the dogs first.

Americans need to take their country back - back from Obama and back from the NAZI goons Bush II unleashed.


19 posted on 09/04/2012 11:31:52 AM PDT by ZULU (See: http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=D9vQt6IXXaM&hd)
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To: jessduntno; Dogbert41

Are y’all too stupid to be upset about two things at once?


20 posted on 09/04/2012 11:31:52 AM PDT by Eaker (Stripping Americans of their freedom and dignity and rubbing their noses in it is a very bad idea.)
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