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Steven Seagal Threatened With Lawsuit Over Police Raid Taped for Reality Show
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News ^ | 08/31/11

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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TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: stevenseagal
Arrived in a tank? Really? Well no. Dumb reporters don't know anything more about armored vehicles than they do about guns. Looks like some kind of wheeled APC, mabe an LAV.

Anyway, the video notes this guy was already on probation after being arresteds at a cockfight, something the article fails to mention.

1 posted on 08/31/2011 4:16:06 PM PDT by Hugin
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To: Hugin

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.


2 posted on 08/31/2011 4:23:34 PM PDT by RitchieAprile (breaking wind to the East..)
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So they killed 100 roosters in order to save them? Plus the dog?

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.

3 posted on 08/31/2011 4:23:46 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (When you've only heard lies your entire life, the truth sounds insane.)
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To: Hugin

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.


4 posted on 08/31/2011 4:32:29 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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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.


5 posted on 08/31/2011 4:39:01 PM PDT by Hugin ("A man'll usually tell you his bad intentions if you listen and let yourself hear it"--- Open Range)
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To: PapaBear3625

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.


6 posted on 08/31/2011 5:00:02 PM PDT by thatjoeguy (Wind is just air, but pushier.)
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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.


7 posted on 08/31/2011 5:02:11 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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Oh well, the chickens are in a better place now.


8 posted on 08/31/2011 5:18:06 PM PDT by Hugin ("A man'll usually tell you his bad intentions if you listen and let yourself hear it"--- Open Range)
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To: PapaBear3625

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....


9 posted on 08/31/2011 9:19:00 PM PDT by goat granny
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