Uh, isn’t the fact that they didn’t find anything enough of a concern for you?
But since you asked, here are some more links. The man involved is a computer analyst for Mariott. In addition to killing his dog, they cuffed his twelve year old daughter.
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/020609_dog_killed_during_raid
http://wjz.com/local/warrant.search.house.2.928336.html
http://www.ohmidog.com/2009/02/07/another-maryland-swat-team-kills-a-dog/
No, facts are preferable when you don’t have an agenda.
Thanks for the links. If you want to prove a point, try leading with them next time.
and there is not a damn thing any lowly citizen can do about it.
Aha! Obviously under suspicion of being a Mormon. Well. That's a good reason to kill a family pet.
I appreciate informative posts and good links...thanks. I’m not from Maryland but I’m nearby.
I’ve seen here on FR that people from all around the USA and the world are reading and posting on the issues that come up. There is good information to be gleaned.
From the 3rd link you listed:
“If it all sounds vaguely familiar, think back to July. That’s when police busted into Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo’s home and shot Calvo’s dogs during a raid that netted nothing. Police later cleared Calvo and his wife of any wrongdoing and charged two unrelated people as suspects.”
“Several Maryland legislators, as a result, have introduced legislation that would require law enforcement agencies to issue monthly reports on SWAT team deployments. It’s called Senate Bill 447.”
This article gives me the idea to look into legislation for oversight of SWAT activities in Northern Virginia. In Fairfax County a SWAT team killed an unarmed man in his front yard near my house. This link gives the details:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/26/AR2006012602136.htm
Okay, one of the articles mentions the mayor I remembered having his dogs shot, there was yet another case in Maryland last year earily similar to this story, down to wife and child watching TV, burst through door, shoot dog... nothing there... sounds to me like something is unusually wrong in Maryland.
Okay, one of the articles mentions the mayor I remembered having his dogs shot, there was yet another case in Maryland last year earily similar to this story, down to wife and child watching TV, burst through door, shoot dog... nothing there... sounds to me like something is unusually wrong in Maryland.