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.
That’s a goood question, Theoria. I’ve wondered that myself. This is happening way too often. I understand & empathize with the position LEOs are in, but this needs to stop.
There is a pretty obvious reason why this is happening. One more reason to “celebrate diversity” /s
Another asshole donut-muncher who needs to be gang raped by San Francisco’s biggest......
De=fund all municipal PDs
To hell with locaL cops. They all belong in Forest Lawn!
Typical JBT Boot-Licker.
You’re dismissed as brainless
Horsehockey!!!!!
People who become cops are too STUPID to survive the real world.
Don’t need cops. That’s what the Second Amendment is for.
ALL police departments are UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!!!!
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for Sir Robert Peeler.
There are a LOT of authoritarian statists here ate FR who masquerade as conservatives who love the Constitution.
Well, when the JBT’s blast your dog to the hererafter.....don’t come crying here, statist.
You authoritarian cop-lovers have a lot of CHUTZPAH calling yourselves conservatives.
Read “Mein Kampf” much?
Me too!
Anyone who becomes a cop deserves derision.
Bad career choice......fit only for morons and imbeciles
You’re an idiot....or worse, a JBT-lover.
Sieg Heil!
Buffalo Woman? Is she an Indian?
“I don’t know any coke dealers...and you sure don’t know anything about me.”
All someone has to do is make an anonymous tip to the cops. Meth, guns, etc. You’d go to the top of their list in a heartbeat. Some druggie would make something up just to look like he was cooperating with the cops to reduce his jail time. Wouldn’t have to know you at all, just make up your address.
::The daughter and boyfriend weren’t the ones who intruded on the woman’s property in this instance.::
From my understanding of the story, the woman’s house was included in the search warrant because there was sworn testimony that drugs were ALSO sold out of her house.
She’s the one claiming it was the wrong house. Get it.
“Are y’all too stupid to be upset about two things at once?”
I’m not upset at all. It wasn’t my dog, nor was it my daughter who has a drug dealer for a boyfriend. If it were, I’d bury him with the dog.
Where on the search warrant is her address listed?
I’m waiting.
“All someone has to do is make an anonymous tip to the cops. Meth, guns, etc. You’d go to the top of their list in a heartbeat. Some druggie would make something up just to look like he was cooperating with the cops to reduce his jail time. Wouldn’t have to know you at all, just make up your address.”
******
“But...but...but...it couldn’t happen to ME!”
(Does this really need an < /sarc > tag?)
“But...but...but...it couldn’t happen to ME!”
But of course if your daughter is dating a druggie and the house he’s living in is in your name, it does radically increase the chances of a “mistake.” And who knows how often he came to her house in the company of the daughter or to pay his rent.
Not that it excuses the cops with regard to capping the dog, but but it goes to show how that “laying with dogs, gettig up with fleas” can affect you even once-removed.
Officer in danger of being licked to death by lab.....details at 11....
No, that's called being a pussy. We have the police (and SWAT teams) to break people's faces, period. Guilt and innocence are merely window dressing to the real issue: power. As government agents, thereby having all legitimate civil power, you are nothing! Know your place, peon!
You’re putting innocent people’s lives in your hands because breaking into a home automatically invites deadly force. Countless people have been killed by such “mistakes” with no punishment for those involved. I worked in jobs where one mistake could have killed people. I made sure to check every single thing countless times before authorizing anything. If I made one such mistake, I would never work in the industry again and would be subject to criminal and civil charges. Cops and Judges should be held to an EVEN HIGHER standard.
Bah! Irrelevant, you see the guilt or innocence of a mere resident/citizen is nothing because their life is nothing. You cling to that foolish belief that [human] life is sacred and not to be thrown away whimsically, it simply is not true: you are merely cattle to your federal masters. If they decide you should die, then who are you to oppose your masters? Indeed, the black-robed god-kings declare what is legal and illegal, so obviously nothing they do can be illegal -- this is the basic tenant of American jurisprudence: the Supreme Court is master over the Constitution [Supreme Law] just like the inferior courts are superior to the inferior law. How else could the judges bar firearms from states whose Constitutions say things like "No law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense" yet compel people not even accused of any crime to appear in court?
If they do not find what is explicitly stated in the warrant, someone clearly did not do their job. All those involved in such “mistakes” should be fired and charged with the relevant crimes committed during the “mistake”- property crimes, burglary, murder, assault and/or animal cruelty.
Again you make incorrect assumptions, the laws are not to restrain the government, but to limit the citizenry. Therefore, to apply any law to the government is to disregard the true purpose of the law. You, as a mere citizen, are nothing more than cattle that believes itself to be a reasonable human being. If you were a human being, you would not be merely cattle but one of the ruling class... that you are not proves the lie of your claims of intelligence.
Free nations cannot stand for such fishing expeditions, even for “super evil” things like drugs. The property owner is lucky these thugs didn’t “throw down” some evidence on her property and lock her up like often happens in the NYPD [snip] Of course, the thugs never get jail time. Even after admitting to taking away freedom from innocent people like the piece of sh** cop in the article I posted. He should have been publically humiliated and executed as an example to all the corrupt cops.
That is your problem: believing that America is free. It is not, and never was. Do not believe your lying history books, or your lying elders, or your lying memories. FedGovia has always been at war with Citizenia.
WARNING: The preceding should have been read with heavy cynical sarcasm.
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