Posted on 08/23/2005 1:40:19 PM PDT by Cagey
Edited on 08/25/2005 1:31:10 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Isn't this how the BTK killer got started?
While the story keeps reference the guy as former Woodbridge policeman (he 22-year veteran office fired from the department in 1995)leaving you with the impression he was not a officer an this arrest and or smear the cop 1995 is 10 years ago and what relevance to the story...this story is loaded with miss direction...Strip in out and here seems to be the facts
The Department of Human Services get an animal-cruelty complaint (dog locked in a hot car)
Department of Human Services Police Officer Stephen Sexton get the call and goes to investigating and finds a dog locked in a hot car
(Question how long from the time she ,to reported, till dispatch,till the office arrived, and add in the fact the office was waiting on when she came back to the car....I would bet the dog was in the car at least an hour also weather Yesterday Woodbridge NJ high of 92°F so the inside of that car?)
Officer questions her.. she gets in car lock the doors and try to drive off?
So she arrested she claims police brutality and spent yesterday in pain from the bruises to her arms, a missing tooth and a possibly broken rib...does she look it in the photo?
Sound more like she was going to get a ticket didn't want to take it, try to hop in the car to blow of the cop and he stop her and during that time the dog got out
What is "totally true"?
What happened to the dog is horrible and tragic. But what really scares me is that the behavior shown by the ex officer sounds very much like an attempted abduction scenario. There is no reason for him to have shown her a badge unless he wanted her to think he was legitimate law enforcement. This is a very effective way of gaining control over someone. Also I wonder if the Woodbridge police were called by him.
Sounds like this guy is a big fan of dennis rader, the BTK killer, who was also an a-hole quasi-cop who liked to push women around.
I didn't get that from the article. You must have a cleaner source. Did it take place at the same time or what? What a complete mess of a story.
And Rusti, the collie-shepherd mix that Ciardiello and her husband refer to as their daughter, escaped from the vehicle and apparently ran onto Route 1, where she was killed in traffic.
And don't worry, I can read an article three times and still miss things.
Probably..
Click on the link to the story and you'll notice two other photos which clearly show some bruises.
I'll check tomorrow and see if there is an update to the story. It seems there were witness' to this story so more facts should be forthcoming. So far though, this one time Woodbridge cop sounds like a total jerk to me.
I found this section of New Jersey law regarding arrests for animal cruelty. It seems this HS officer did not have the authority to make any arrest for animal cruelty.
22-44. Arrests with or without warrant
Any member, officer or agent of the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, or any sheriff, undersheriff, constable, certified animal control officer who has been properly authorized pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1983, c. 525 (C.4:19-15.16b) or police officer may:
a. Make arrests for violations of this article;
b. Arrest without warrant any person found violating the provisions of this article in the presence of such member, officer, agent, sheriff, undersheriff, constable, police officer or a certified animal control officer who has been properly authorized pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1983, c. 525 (C.4:19- 15.16b), and take such person before the nearest judge or magistrate as provided in this article.
My statement that police work draws a lot of people who are themselves criminals, with the exception being that they're too chickenshit to be a *real* criminal.
Same way that the legal profession sometimes attracts weasels.
What's the matter with that? Also notice that I didn't presume you were in jail or on parole because you couldn't understand this simple concept.
If the story is accurate, it still seems he over stepped any limits he may have had especially with the amount of force he used.
I don't really know what to make of this story. It does seem to ignore the fact that leaving pets in a car, on a hot day, without any windows cracked was such a common and heartbreaking occurrence (usually causing death) that it spurred an entire awareness movement to keep people from doing it. Knowing this, and how hot it can get in a car during the summer, one might wonder why the story seems so completely slanted in favor of the woman without even mentioning the *possibility* that she was thoughtlessly committing an act of neglect, and then talked back to the cop or otherwise aggravated the situation.
With that said, however, I've seen several posters mention that the event happened at night. I re-read the story and it still just isn't clear to me whether the arrest happened at night, or just the dog dying, etc. Keep in mind it can be really damn hot at 4:00 pm, and during the time that elapsed, it could become 6 or 7 pm, which some would consider "night."
But I guess we just don't know. I'll admit it certainly sounds like we have an overzealous or power-hungry dude gone wild. I'm just hoping to hear the whole, objective story. I doubt we'll get it.
Step back, take a deep breath and then read it again.
It said the dog was hit by a car. You would be turned
down to proofread this article by most high school
papers.
Maybe you just did. I bet the events described here happened just the way it was reported.
Some people become cops so they can push other people around, this guy sounds like one of them.
Okay this guy is not a cop. He wants to be a cop and once was a cop but got kicked out of the police department for being a bad cop.
Then, somebody gives this controlling asshole a job as a health department cop?
He needs to go to prison.
I'm only replying to your post Tennessee Bob because you live close to me. I only know how to reply to one person and haven't figured out the reply to all thing yet.
Plus, I wanted to tell you about my Mom's neighbor's dog.
She is a little tiny chihuha (sp) and she actually thinks she could whip an elephant, wouldn't think twice about charging one.
I call her the Rottweiller. She is one mean dog.
"These kind folk should sue the living sh*t out of this @sshole and any law enforcement agency who even admits to knowing this flake."
In an earlier America, the woman's husband, brother and minister would have tracked this cop down and given him a 'talking to' he wouldn't forget. I understand we used to have a sort of communal and collective maintenance of social affairs in this country. But that was before we had to 'understand' everybody and not act in 'vengeance.'
I say bring on the vengeance. Rolling pins might do the trick.
Okay this guy is not a cop. He wants to be a cop and once was a cop but got kicked out of the police department for being a bad cop.
Then, somebody gives this controlling asshole a job as a health department cop?
He needs to go to prison.
I'm only replying to your post Tennessee Bob because you live close to me. I only know how to reply to one person and haven't figured out the reply to all thing yet.
Plus, I wanted to tell you about my Mom's neighbor's dog.
She is a little tiny chihuha (sp) and she actually thinks she could whip an elephant, wouldn't think twice about charging one.
I call her the Rottweiller. She is one mean dog.
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