Posted on 06/29/2014 1:47:33 PM PDT by PoloSec
Perhaps feeling a bit besieged after dog owner Sean Kendall posted a video of his impassioned confrontation with Salt Lake City police after one of their fellow officers entered his yard and shot his dog, Geist, Police Chief Chris Burbank stepped in front of a camera—and acted pissy that anybody would dare criticize his officers.
"Evidence shows that the dog was extremely close, in fact within feet of the officer," he insisted, immediately after stating that he wouldn't insert himself into the review of the case.
Well, OK. Let's give him that one. After all, Officer Brett Olsen, the shooter in the incident, had barged into the dog's yard at the time, while searching for a missing child in the neighborhood. He hadn't sought permission, and he apparently made no effort to back out. But he was there.
Then Burbank went on to refer to Olsen as a "seasoned officer" and a "hero" of the Trolley Square mall shooting before getting pissy about the public's angry response to the shooting of Geist. He read infuriated letters suggesting that Olsen deserved the same as he'd inflicted on Geist, and then went on to berate the public at large.
"It is extremely disappointing. This police department has worked tirelessly to ensure that the process that exists within our city for people to protest, for people to bring forth issues, for people to address problems and concerns with the police department, that avenues exist that we can move together and resolve problems...
Individuals will be held accountable for their actions as they always are. Not held accountable to this ridiculousness."
He went on to demand, well, that people his officers' authoritah.
"I ask only one thing, and that is that this community continues to approach interactions with the police department in a respectful manner."
Maybe this world just isn't good enough for you and your officers, Chief Burbank.
Justice for Geist rallyJustice for GeistThe chief's resentment at public criticism didn't seem to to take with those outraged by Geist's shooting. Yesterday, organized by Justice for Geist, somewhere between hundreds and thousands of protesters rallied outside the Salt Lake City Police Department to demand that Olsen be fired.
The Salt Lake City council also, rather gently, urged the police department to work with the Humane Society and consider less-lethal means of dealing with family pets. Even implied criticism of that sort toward the state's enforcers is rare from politicians.
Burbank did get one thing right when he marveled, "after 23 years in law enforcement, I haven't seen this sort of public outcry when certain human beings have lost their lives."
Militarized, aggressive and abusive policing is not a new thing, and innocent humans are often the victims, not dogs. But maybe animals that can't speak for themselves more easily evoke sympathy than men, women, and children.
Whudya think Nully.....is this JBT a candidate for his picture being included on the wolfie-ette’s bedroom ceiling collection? I know it is probably getting crowded up there but wolfie-ette is always ready to make room for another one to give a ‘hand’ to!
Dog lovers need to parade peacefully around the police station day and night, carrying pictures of the dog.
Say nothing. Carry no arms. If a marcher would occasionally “bark”, that would make it more interesting.
10% is being quite generous as I believe there's not 10 officers in the USA with an ounce of integrity or respect for the Rule of Law...and it's restraints.
That's why we must focus our efforts on discovering who they are and where they live.
Any fear we citizens feel, they and their families must feel 10X
But he was within feet of him.
FEET, I tell you!
It’s a miracle he survived.
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He ain’t quite right.
A dog is your first line of defense against those who would do you harm.
Ponder that.
The cops do.
It has to do with a concerted effort to by the cops to desensitize us to their intrusions with deadly force.
Are we getting the message? Police have abandoned Protect and Serve, poop on community goodwill and support, they have SWAT and all the Mil stuff they dreamed about.
I understand all that.
I was specifically referring to the comment in #13.
Yeah, I made note of that in the YT comment I left,
plus some language I won’t repeat here.
What do you expect, they have a gun that is by their side and most of them have never used and the itch to killing something is just to strong to resist.
A dog is an easy target, it has no gun to shoot them first, presto dead dog.
That, and leave dog bisquits about the area around the entrance.
Also, I’d like to see a mailing campaign to the police station,
a Milk Bone in each envelope.
“Bisquits not Bullets”
Back to spewing your State-worshipping propaganda?
How many doctors have thrown grenades into a baby’s crib lately?
How many carpenters have beaten a man to death?
How many teachers have shot handcuffed people in the back (or in the back of the head?
How many pastors have gunned down mothers in their cars?
That’s what happens when you reject Yahweh and worship the State and its employees instead.
To question the character, will or mission of a prophet is to question the character, will or mission of the god (or God, in the case of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and the other biblical prophets) he (or she—Deborah was a prophetess) serves.
Those who worship the State, therefore, *cannot* and *will not* allow the actions of the prophets of the State to be called into question.
Therefore, they are all but chanting:
“There is no god but the State and the Police Officer is its prophet”
May God forgive them for raising up idols.
I love his claim about avenues for expressing problems. BS! Most of the time, unless it is made HIGHLY public, they ignore issues.
As for the yard? What? The only way we can expect a cop to respect property is to put 15ft barbed wire fencing around it? They’d assume you were hiding something and still find a way in.
It would be one thing if they had any intelligence that the guy might have something to do with it. But this was just a random search.
As for the 23 years part? 23 years ago was 1991. We are in a new era of people able to document and know what LE is doing, and share it. 23 years ago, your only source of news was very limited.
This was nothing but him mad at any criticism at all. How dare anyone start questioning them! The letter he read off. He was so angry someone would talk about killing a cop over a dog. What about cops willing to use deadly force to protect their dog? That magic change into a LE dog did not increase his value.
This guy represents the typical cop attitude of disgust that anyone dare expect them to be answerable for their actions.
This whole thing is symptomatic of everything going on with cops lately. And people are getting tired of it.
And by the way, what is it with these guys and a constellation of stars? A 4 star general?
His mumblings should get him fired if he really believes shooting family pets for target practice is acceptable.
#13 hopefully was a sarcastic post, but as it wasn’t mine, so just my guess.
I have noticed that many of these warrantless “intrusions” resulting in family pet being shot, are in some obtuse connection to a “child” situation, which is not unlike the old dem Bill passage ploy “its for the chillrin”, used to get by with illegal and unsavory things..
Yep...
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