Posted on 07/06/2014 4:37:18 PM PDT by WXRGina
A rash of animal shootings by police officers nationwide has law-enforcement agencies running for cover amid growing public outrage that could force state legislatures to require greater accountability from men and women in uniform.
Police in Utah shot a family’s dog while searching for a lost boy, prompting hundreds of pet owners to protest June 28 in front of the Salt Lake City Police Department headquarters. They carried signs demanding “justice for Geist,” a 110-pound Weimaraner shot by a city cop within the dog’s fenced-in back yard. The “missing” boy was later found sleeping in his home.
State police in West Virginia shot a family’s dog June 24 as it was reportedly running away from them during a search for a suspect on adjoining property. Shots rang out even as the dog’s owner was screaming for officers to hold their fire and let her put her dog inside.
In Maryland, two Baltimore police officers were charged last week with animal cruelty after one of them allegedly held down Nala, a 7-year-old Shar-Pei, while the other slit the dog’s throat.
... A pet is a person’s property, which should not be summarily executed for doing what dogs naturally do, which is to investigate unknown people or other dogs who approach their territory...
“It is a growing problem and part of it is, post 9/11, our judicial system has basically trashed the Constitution under the mantle of security, and personal rights cease to exist,”...
“All over the country we have cops shooting dogs for no other reason than they can. And our courts and our elected officials, rather than protecting the citizens and the Constitution, simply see it as a way to take more power and more money. I think it’s a civil-rights violation. I think it’s a constitutional violation.”
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What’s your problem with what I wrote? Did you even watch the video? If you did, you should know what I meant by the black guy “aggressively filming” the cops. Maybe think about it a little before knee-jerking a smart ass remark to me.
“Was the camera or cell phone going to attack the JBTs”
The video turned loose on YouTube or in a court room, yeah, maybe.
They don’t like having a light shined on them.
And if you think there is some state law prohibiting the filming/taping/recording of cops, you are out of date.
This issue has been to the SCotUS, and they have ruled that police, when in public, can be filmed/taped/recorded.
This guy was not interfering with the police, and they had no right to arrest him, to cuff him, or even to question him.
There is only one reason for the police to object to being recorded, and that is because they are doing, or about to do, something they shouldn't.
You completely misunderstand what I was saying! You and that other guy both didn’t get my simple point! And, you’re reading into it things I never meant or intended.
I DID NOT say the guy was doing anything wrong. I said he was “aggressively filming” the cops. In other words, he was making a scene doing it, therefore, it is no surprise that the cops got their power-tripping “cop attitude” going. NO, it wasn’t right for them to cuff the guy, and HELL, NO, it wasn’t right for them to shoot his dog, even though the dog appeared to possibly present a danger to them.
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