Did they use hollow point?
The police can wander into anyone’s backyard and just do as much searching as they like. No paperwork required. They just go where they want to go. Anyone (or anything) which starts to complain about it is apt to get a bullet between the eyes.
Have a nice day.
Glad to see the comments are squarely opposed to the actions of the officer.
We know that cops poke around, but I don’t remember them being so military style back in the 50s and 60s, and leaving so much collateral damage that needs to be buried.
Casually killing pets that you run into while poking around and looking, is pushing the envelope.
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If the police do not have an "clearly articulated" basis for their reasonable suspicion about the suspect being in the back yard... a "hunch" doesn't count.
They have no rights to enter the premises...
....much less destroy anyone's property.
Get a lawyer... make a demand.
It's NOT a police state...dang it...
Until we "train" them to play by the rules by obtaining seriously painful and expensive punitive judgments..
They will press the limits every time....
And try to get away with marginally unlawful behavior patterns via verbal/psych intimidation...
...and doublespeak ex post facto** explanations.
** (Latin for B.S.)
Under the law are they allowed to kill anything that stands in there way?I kinda f'en doubt it. This crap is out of control and usually just like the screwed up show cops,the innocent dont have the $$ means to get legal counsel to sue the crap out of the municipalities.
At first when I saw the headline I felt awful. Then I read that it was a pit bull and no longer cared.
So, once there, in your yard, they are exempt from what happens to them or from whatever they happen to do? Even break a law that they are supposed to uphold just like everyone else is?
Whatever the intent, the law appears to be in violation of one's private property rights.
One's right to the quiet, lawful enjoyment of one's property trumps the right of another citizen, in uniform or not, to break those rights by coming onto one's property in the first place otherwise it looks like illegal search.
It doesn't matter whether or not they're there to uphold some other law that may or may not have been broken.
And it most certainly doesn't then exempt them from any other crime they commit against the owner and their property while there illegally or legally.
The law is supposed to apply to everyone equally.
If you can't go and do the same thing to the person who did those same things to you and not go to jail or get paid leave, whatever their punishment, then there is a problem.
I wonder how long before some homeowner shoots a cop accidently after hearing a gun shot in the backyard.
There is a facebook page called “Family Pets Shot By Law Enforcement”. Awareness Day was 9-22-12
These constant killings are pretty sad. Something is really wrong here.
Seems like the defaut thing for them to do these days.
Like it’s written in the bathroom stall:
“Here I sit, broken hearted.
Came to sh*t, but only.... Shot your dog to death.”
I THINK that’s how it goes
Since when have we allowed the JBTs to just enter property?
Its a travesty!
I don’t care if they’re chasing Bonnie & Clyde!
I hope this guy sues for gazillions.
Why in hell would police think a robber would try to hide with a pitbull in someone’s backyard?
It is rapidly making me feel the police are the enemy.
This is why the US government can’t be trusted with the death penalty. With so many crooked cops running around, who is willing to bet on a life on the fact that the cops got it right?