Never understood the tears shed for police dogs when some perp plugs one.
#HandsUpDontBite
They raided his house because he burned a Christmas tree in his backyard?
I hope he gets millions.
Kinda silly to expect a dog to not attack when the perp puts his hands up.
Although it does sound like the dog wasn’t properly controlled.
Three cops with guns and a K-9 to take down a guy who burned a Christmas tree in his own yard?? Then, they tasered him too?
Ho Lee Chit!
These officers are grade-A assholes.
Not only does the handler not have control of his weapon, it attacked the man with command or provocation and continued attacking, with the idiot unable to control his weapon and that weapon had to be physically restrained and forcefully pulled of the man.
Then, just to top it off, the cops smack the guy in the face with a heavy wooden chair.
I say fire all three and that dog needs to be destroyed.
For the life of me I don’t understand why the cop didn’t shoot the fanged weapon.
They sure don’t have any qualms about executing other peoples dogs.
But the dude would still have a face if he simply got off the couch when asked to by the officer...
I think I counted the cop asking him at least three times with the caveat of the dog will make him...
I guess the multi-million dollar settlement the good citizens of West Jordan will end up paying him will cover the disturbing the peace citation. How rude of him to attack the K-9 with his face.
This, like so many of these stories where cops have begun to be less like cops and more like an out of control gang, all have a common foundation. I think you can trace it all back to when police departments began to unionize. Pre-union, a cop has allegiance to the public. Post-union, a cop is no longer responsive to the public, his allegiance is to his union. Worse, the union, by design, does not deal in individuals, it deals in the the group, the mass, the mob. Individuals are no longer responsible.
Psychologically, over time, this has to have a corrosive effect on the police force. Instead of responsible individuals you now have group-think union thugs who know they can push the city and the citizens around. This is a bad development. Stories like this one, and others, are the outcome.
“West Jordan police told the Salt Lake Tribune that the body camera footage ‘shows only one aspect of the entire incident and that Hoogveldt resisted arrest’.”
Oh do tell Officer Brownshirt.
How did he resist? So effing what if he didn’t stand up.
What if he did stand up?
That mangy animal would have attacked him any way and in fact, does while the other jack booted thugs are attempting to handcuff the guy.
None of these gave one hoot about the safety of that man and they drop a heavy wooden chair on his head for good measure....
Three thugs and a vicious dog force their way into a home........
Per the article:
“West Jordan police told the Salt Lake Tribune that the body camera footage ‘shows only one aspect of the entire incident and that Hoogveldt resisted arrest’.”
Spin, Spin Spin... By not standing up while he had his hands high in the air? Ever try to do that?
The West Jordan Police Department says officers were at risk.They said in a written release that in the weeks before the arrest, Hoogveldt had exhibited violent behavior that included an aggravated assault with a weapon and another time was found in possession of a concealed weapon by officers.
In the Christmas tree incident, Hoogveldt had threatened neighbors with a knife and started fires twice at a neighbor's home, according to the police. A fire was burning behind Hoogveldt's house as police approached, the release says, and "to protect the neighborhood and before the fire department could come in, officers had to secure Mr. Hoogveldt."
The officers say a large empty knife sheath on a table and believed that because of his history, Hoogveldt would pose a "lethal threat" if they approached him and sent in the dog to detain him, the release says.
So the guy is thought to’ve burned a Christmas tress in his back yard - an you come after him with guns drawn and an attack dog!!!!!
thank goodness we’re being protected from such hardened criminals!
Used to be, for something like this, police would knock on the door and talk with the person - not approach him as if we an escaped murderer.
The damned Germans, either at your feet or at your throat.
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A .45 slug through the dog’s skull would have been the quickest solution.
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Uh, that is ....
NOT A GERMAN SHEPHERD.
*****BELGIAN MALINOIS.*****
Sorry.