Posted on 08/10/2013 11:49:07 PM PDT by Morgana
NORTH WILDWOOD -
A disabled U.S. Army veteran, who served our country for 19 years, says he was kicked off the North Wildwood boardwalk last night, simply for having his service dog by his side.
Jared Goering served 1 tour in Iraq, 2 in Afghanistan, and spent 19 years as an active member of the Army. Jared said, "I served from 1993 to 2012." He then told NBC40 he couldn't sleep Thursday night because he felt so disrespected by a North Wildwood police officer.
Goering said, "Just like any veteran with disabilities with a service dog, to come back and be harassed and shown no respect, it upset me - it really bothered me. I was up most of the night thinking about it."
A North Wildwood police officer issued Jared and his wife a summons because of the dog. Goering said, “I expected to get more respect from him because of the jobs that we both have to do."
"He mockingly asked if all veterans get service dogs," said Jared’s wife, Sally Goering, “his dog is medically necessary and he is a service dog."
In 2009, Jared was serving in Afghanistan when his vehicle was blown up by IEDs, twice, within 36 hours. Now, Jared uses his 3-year-old service dog, Gator, short for Navigator, to help him walk, and to get up and down stairs.
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The cop was probably upset because the dog was smarter than him.
“North Wildwood police officials say there are no pending charges, but that there are other circumstances surrounding the case.”
Yeah circumstances like they don’t teach their officers the law.
Screw the law, how about some basic manners. Since we have entered the fascist zero tolerance world, I have notice how government officials have a sense of entitlement and lack of basic manners about them. Especially noticeable in police and other law/regulation enforcement agencies.
Luckily, the dog was not shot.
The officer did wrong. It is mandatory that service dogs be allowed to go wherever people are allowed.
I suppose we could hear the cop’s side of the story before we string him up.
I was in Wildwood that very day. If I saw that, I’d have passionately taken the vet’s side. Sgt. Shultz was more competent than this idiot jackbooted thug. Bob
The moron police officer won’t be required to attend ‘sensitivity training’ in issues of disabled vets. BTW where is North Wildwood?
American police are morphing into jack-booted thugs. It is a sign of the times.
I don’t think it is a morph so much as we now get to hear of police misconduct when previously it was perhaps a local issue, or perhaps not publicized at all.
Jersey shore.
“I don’t think it is a morph so much as we now get to hear of police misconduct”
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No, I observed it in small town police prior to my leaving the US.
Little bedroom towns were beefing up their police departments, hiring young bucks who thought they were going to police a big city like Detroit. They had all the swat gear and loved practicing with it. They wanted to emulate the latest TV show cops. I doubt that even the town fathers realized what they were getting into.
By contrast, we had a police department here in Maywood mostly composed of officers from other jurisdictions. They took the cut in pay to get away from problems they had in their original job. Some worked out, because they tried to get away from political problems. Others were the problem officers from other jurisdictions and brought their problems here.
Happy ending! We eventually fired our local police department. We don’t have one. We pay the Sheriff for patrols. Our tiny (one sq mile) bedroom community fairly ethnically homogeneous (95% hispanic) doesn’t have to generate blotter traffic for some officer’s quota, and yet has access to the resources of the LA county sheriff in the event of anything big.
I wish I could say we did it because our politicians were smart, but no, we did it because the city ran out of money.
What worked for a small town will perhaps work one day for the country.
PJ O’Rourke pointed out some of this insanity in one of his books. In the tiny Vermont town he lives in, which hasn’t had a murder since the 60’s and where more property is returned as found, then is reported missing or stolen, has the same number of officers per capita as NYC.
Meanwhile in that town, where every home has a wood burning fireplace or stove, and the buildings are wooden and fires are a common occurrence they have an all volunteer fire department. Not exactly logical....
and police officers need to be educated about this.”
If the veteran would have been gay it would probsbly been okay.../s
People who keep questioning why departments purchase and train with SWAT gear need only remember the shootout in California years ago. Nothing quite like having to go borrow a gun stores inventory in the middle of a firefight to be able to have a rifle that was more accurate and powerful enuff to penetrate the body armor that those two morons were outfitted with. It doesn’t mean we are all specops wannabees...maybe we just want to be as well equipped as possible should that situation arise in “our little towns”. Being better equipped and trained brings incidents like that to a close faster, thus hopefully saving lives. My two cents worth.
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