Posted on 06/29/2014 1:47:33 PM PDT by PoloSec
Perhaps feeling a bit besieged after dog owner Sean Kendall posted a video of his impassioned confrontation with Salt Lake City police after one of their fellow officers entered his yard and shot his dog, Geist, Police Chief Chris Burbank stepped in front of a camera—and acted pissy that anybody would dare criticize his officers.
"Evidence shows that the dog was extremely close, in fact within feet of the officer," he insisted, immediately after stating that he wouldn't insert himself into the review of the case.
Well, OK. Let's give him that one. After all, Officer Brett Olsen, the shooter in the incident, had barged into the dog's yard at the time, while searching for a missing child in the neighborhood. He hadn't sought permission, and he apparently made no effort to back out. But he was there.
Then Burbank went on to refer to Olsen as a "seasoned officer" and a "hero" of the Trolley Square mall shooting before getting pissy about the public's angry response to the shooting of Geist. He read infuriated letters suggesting that Olsen deserved the same as he'd inflicted on Geist, and then went on to berate the public at large.
"It is extremely disappointing. This police department has worked tirelessly to ensure that the process that exists within our city for people to protest, for people to bring forth issues, for people to address problems and concerns with the police department, that avenues exist that we can move together and resolve problems...
Individuals will be held accountable for their actions as they always are. Not held accountable to this ridiculousness."
He went on to demand, well, that people his officers' authoritah.
"I ask only one thing, and that is that this community continues to approach interactions with the police department in a respectful manner."
Maybe this world just isn't good enough for you and your officers, Chief Burbank.
Justice for Geist rallyJustice for GeistThe chief's resentment at public criticism didn't seem to to take with those outraged by Geist's shooting. Yesterday, organized by Justice for Geist, somewhere between hundreds and thousands of protesters rallied outside the Salt Lake City Police Department to demand that Olsen be fired.
The Salt Lake City council also, rather gently, urged the police department to work with the Humane Society and consider less-lethal means of dealing with family pets. Even implied criticism of that sort toward the state's enforcers is rare from politicians.
Burbank did get one thing right when he marveled, "after 23 years in law enforcement, I haven't seen this sort of public outcry when certain human beings have lost their lives."
Militarized, aggressive and abusive policing is not a new thing, and innocent humans are often the victims, not dogs. But maybe animals that can't speak for themselves more easily evoke sympathy than men, women, and children.
What an inane assertion.
All I know that if some jerk with a badge comes in my yard or my house and shoots my dog we gonna have a problem. The dog was protecting his/her territory. It’s what a dog does. We have a black lab, she will bark at you if she don’t know you.
After your police department decides their JOB is to approach interactions with the community in RESPECTFUL MANNER, Chief.
Arrogant prick.
My somewhat senile father has a habit of calling the cops if she doesn’t hear from me in 2 or 3 days. Nothing like seeing a bunch of blue coming up the front porch without any idea of what is going on. I scream at them: I own a dog! I have a dog! My dog is sleeping on the couch! Maybe it’s my big mouth but it makes them very defensive and somewhat embarrassed. They’ve never hurt my pooch yet.
What the hell has that to do with agents of the government entering private yards unannounced, opening up with firearms and shooting pets to death in neighborhoods full of kids and innocents?
90% of the police make the others look bad. Coppers are out of control and act often as if on steroids. This “chief” should be fired. His whining is tiresome.
Why are police dogs given “officer” status....when private dogs are not given .....any status?
Some doggies are more equal than others?
burbank is just another useless libtard who won’t enforce immigration laws.
the same clown who kept a perv officer on paid administrative leave (aka paid vacation) for seven months so he could qualify for a pension.
Thanks for the email address...
The police state, with arrogant cops doing whatever they please, with little or no regard for the law and rights of citizens, is too over the top for people to tolerate anymore. In this case the cop could have knocked on the door, and asked for permission to check the backyard for the little boy, but he chose to rush in like a hero. He was lucky the neighbor didn’t have several rottweilers back there.
The fact that people are upset about dogs being fair game for trigger happy cops doesn’t in anyway imply that people don’t care about innocent humans being killed by cops. We are sick of all of it. This idiot Police Chief needs to take heed.
Give Burbank some more “input,” so he can get “pissy” again! BTW, go the the SLC PD Chief’s page and take a good look at this cretin. WWF Material I say. Hook him up with Jesse Ventura.
BTW, FYI, only the Sheriff of Salt Lake County in all if Utah has refused to support the Second Amendment. The other 27 do and have formally pledged to do so.
Thanks, I’m composing a nice letter now...
Like the homeowner said, the American people have had more than belly full of these government tactics, which you’d expect in a war zone.
Another link to what this man went through as he arrived home from work..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvSC_bvPCOk
All should watch this in it’s entirety.
Dogs act aggressively toward a threat, always will.
They instinctively act aggressively towards cops because they sense a threat to the pack.
And they smell fear.
Cops kill dogs because they won’t cower in fear.
Dogs are excellent judges of character...
I should note for the record, Ms. Lisa Pascadlo, the Chief’s Executive Officer, apparently had nothing to do with this specific incident or his comments.
Does she eat gubment cheese for a living....?
I gave the jerk a piece of my mind
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