Posted on 07/29/2014 1:13:45 PM PDT by chessplayer
On July 13, Josie Garcia’s husband was pulled over by Houston PD for failure to use a turn signal.
The routine traffic stop lead to a search and prescription drugs belonging to the passenger were found. Both men were subsequently arrested and the SUV was impounded. Charges against her husband were dropped days later.
Unfortunately, Garcia’s 14 year old chihuahua, Guero, was along for the ride.
As the men were being taken into custody and the SUV towed, Guero was removed from the vehicle and left on the side of Highway 59.
Garcia’s husband plead with the officer to let him call someone to come get the dog or for the officer to call animal control, who’s shelter was only 2 blocks away.
The officer refused, claiming the dog would be fine.
For the next 3 days Garcia put up missing posters and searched for her beloved pet. Eventually, she received a call to let her know where he was.
Guero had been found, dead, on the side of the highway not far from where the men were pulled over. The elderly chihuahua was nearly blind from cataracts and had been hit by oncoming traffic.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefreethoughtproject.com ...
That's a pretty broad brush.
Yes, that's me. Guess I could be arrested on my next road trip if I change lanes without a signal!
Nobody knows it’s misidentified until a full lab is done, so they can’t proclaim what hasn’t been established yet.
The only thing we do know is that the husband was released without charges, but the articles are curiously mum on the passenger.
The drugs are red herring anyway. Doesn’t matter what the instigation for the arrest was or whether it was a reasonable arrest. There is still no excuse for the dog to have been left by the side of the road.
If the story was fabricated, I’m pretty sure the HPD would be publicizing that loudly, not mumbling about how an investigation could take six months.
” Better yet, no former military personnel
should be hired until they have been back
in civilian life for ten years.
That’s a pretty broad brush.”
But accurate, I think. You can’t tell me that some guy who has been at war can come home, and shift his thinking in a day. LE is militant enough.
As for broad brush? What is the goal of LE? The goal is serving the needs of the public, not the guy wanting a badge. This isn’t pizza delivery. This is the power to change peoples lives. It is a serious public trust.
Just based on the media reports of *clearly* abusive behavior wherein the offending officers are never held responsible as a civilian would be given the same circumstances — I would think it is more than safe to say that any modern encounter with a LEO is a coin-flip as to whether you will deal with a level-headed Andy Griffith or a knee-jerk, badge-heavy, abusive Barney Fife. Not saying all cops are bad, but there does seem to be an ever increasing number of reports of bad cops. One has to wonder how long do we have until they outnumber the good ones?
I wouldn’t characterize it as “strange leftist psychology” when all that is needed to come to the common-sense judgement is mere casual observation.
You’re absolutely right, but that was never the point. Leaving the dog turned my stomach at it’s indifferent cruelty ... or was it really indifferent and not some form of cop punishment for somebody who didn’t fall in line quick enough?
The additional commentary was about the OP article and it’s obvious lies by omission. Which was done to keep the driver in the most favorable light and cast a cloud of suspicious on the cop. An Amateur mistake by the writer of the OP article.
So it’s ridiculous to argue over hyperbolic what-ifs and I won’t feel it necessary to respond again on this subject.
Cheers.
Well they did.
Do you have any other bird brain statements for the thread?
Can you read? Or is comprehension your problem.
It was a dog not a barking rat.
Even a brain addled dumb ass liberal knows the difference.
Why did Mayor Anise Porker apologize then?
http://abc13.com/pets/family-traffic-stop-ended-with-family-pet-dead/213313/
Clearly you love bullies and hate dogs.
Pitiful.
Good on ya, Mr. Eaker, my friend.
Since I first posted this, cops have killed 14 more family pets. It’s an epidemic of animal cruelty by cops.
“If the story is true as presented, the officer is liable for a lawsuit?...........’
If so the cop should be fired for cruelty to animals, and any law suit should be debited from the HPD pension fund instead of taxpayers. Getting their pensions cut will get their attention. The public is losing patience with these idiots.
If they treat the citizenry and pets appropriately then then have nothing to worry about.
“Cops wouldn’t leave a dog on the freeway. Somehow the SPCA would get involved.
From the WORST point of view, the dog’s presence there might CAUSE an accident.”
You wouldn’t think so but there are many things going wrong in America, that 15 years ago you would never think would happen. Perhaps the cops in this case felt threatened. That seems to be the standard excuse for pulling the trigger and now abandonment of a blind 14 year old pet on an expressway. I’m fed up reading about garbage behavior from those we pay well.
As long as we citizens still elect politicians we can shut down abusive power simply by pulling the funding of these organizations. In my local (very low crime rate) community the PD now has a budget greater than 50% of the local government. The local government does functions that I do find beneficial and use daily like roads. The PDs would be wise to make regaining respect of the public a major priority.
I didn’t “evade” anything.
Well, coming from you I'll take that as a complement since after all it takes one to know one.
“With your hatred of animals, you would fit right in.”
My hatred of animals?
I pointed out that the sob story is probably BS, and now I’m some sort of animal hater?
How much time and money have you spent supporting your local animal shelter?
Have you ever called the local humane society to report animals that are obviously being mistreated? Or report animals who are injured?
Have you ever stopped to help a dog that just got hit by the car in front of you or did you just keep driving?
Get back to me once you can at least say yes to just one of the above.
Obsess much?
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Dude you need some serious help
“Do you find it credible that HPD would offer no comment if the story were made up?”
Why make a comment before an invesigation is done?
“The in-house trooper here provided some much needed entertainment. He twisted into a pretzel suggesting the dog was killed elsewhere, the owners miraculously found it and days later planted the dead dog at the scene..”
The only one twisting (and foaming at the mouth, and shouting to yourself, etc) was you.
“The trooper then ran for the tall grass...”
Uh only in your dreams draggy.... It's called I have a LIFE and I don't spend all day every day online.
“Ya getting that monkey movie feeling yet?”
Uh no, seeing you obsess over my posts I'm getting that whole “lunatic obsessive stalker” movie feeling.
“Can you read? Or is comprehension your problem.
It was a dog not a barking rat.”
I can read just fine thank you very much.
Those “dogs” are nothing more than annoying little barking rats compared to a real dog such as a lab or husky.
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