Posted on 08/31/2011 4:15:57 PM PDT by Hugin
Steven Seagal is being threatened with a lawsuit over his part in a police raid that was taped for his A&E reality show, TMZ reported.
The actor, who has served as a reserve deputy sheriff since the mid-'80s, was part of a team that arrived at Jesus Sanchez Llovera's Arizona house in March with a tank and armed in full riot gear, Llovera alleges in his legal documents.
VIDEO: Steven Seagal Arrives for Police Bust in Tank
Llovera claims that the raid, carried out by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department, was "unfounded" because they believed Llovera was raising roosters for illegal cockfighting. But he says the roosters are only "for show."
Llovera -- who served both Seagal and Sheriff Joe Arpaio with an official notice of claim, the first step toward a lawsuit -- says his 11-month-old puppy was shot and killed during the raid and that police also killed more than 100 of his roosters.
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Anyway, the video notes this guy was already on probation after being arresteds at a cockfight, something the article fails to mention.
I thought Seagal was a Louisiana reserve deputy not an AZ one. Anyway this reality show genre treads dangerously when they get involved with raids and such. No suprise that
defendants counsel start picking on this lowhanging fruit.
Really, if the police don't have anything better to do with their and SWAT gear, then it should all be taken away from them.
This should be easy to decide. There is a big difference between ordinary breeding roosters and gamecocks. Gamecocks usually have a lot of trimming, both to remove their comb, and of feathers that could make them prone to overheating in a fight.
They are trained both not to resist human handling, and to be far more aggressive than other chickens. Even hen gamecocks will often attack other hens.
If they are instead “show chickens”, it will also be noticeable, as they will be well tended, but not shorn.
I don’t know, but I suspect if someone is into fighting cocks, his dog is probably a pit bull. An 11 month old pitbull is not a cute little puppy. Who knows what happened with chickens.
Killing dogs/puppies is S.O.P. for police whenever they show up. Killing the roosters earned each of the officers and new toaster for every rooster killed.
From reading about convifiscations of animals after a cockfighting group raid, the roosters are considered unadoptable and are destroyed rather than turned over to animal rescue groups.
any one with 100 roosters aren’t keeping them for pets...they don’t even give eggs....I’d say cock fighting is the reason....
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