cause we all know how vicious and out of control Labs are...
Posted on 08/07/2008 5:54:59 PM PDT by indcons
A Maryland mayor is asking the federal government to investigate why SWAT team members burst into his home without knocking and shot his two dogs to death in an investigation into a drug smuggling scheme.
"This has been a difficult week and a half for us," Cheye Calvo, mayor of Berwyn Heights, Maryland, said Thursday. "We lost our family dogs. We did it at the hands of sheriff's deputies who burst through our front door, rifles blazing."
The raid last week was led by the Prince George's County Police Department, with the sheriff's special operations team assisting, after a package of marijuana was sent to Calvo's home.
Authorities say the package was part of a scheme in which drugs are mailed to unknowing recipients and then intercepted.
Calvo said he had just returned home from walking his two Labrador retrievers, Chase and Payton, when his mother-in-law told him a package had arrived for his wife, Trinity Tomsic.
--snip-- Calvo said authorities entered his home without knocking and refused to show him a warrant when he requested one.
--snip-- The deputies have said they killed the two animals because they felt threatened.
"I would say that the dogs presented a threat, I would imagine, to the special operations situation," Taylor said.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Damn, I know one of these guys..
There, fixed it.
Rule # 1: Kill the dogs.
I would say you and your good ol' boy buddies are some amateur b****es. Special operations, indeed...with major emphasis on the "special"...
Now we've had a few threads on this already and THIS little tidbit never popped up.
cause we all know how vicious and out of control Labs are...
Does he have any pets? Why don't you ask him how he'd like it if some idiot shot his pets in front of his family.
I would love to hear his take on this.
I think there was a seminar for cops a while back and one ‘tip’ was, if you enter a home or yard where there’s a dog, don’t try to deal with it, shoot it.
This dog shooting crap has to stop!
Actually, it popped up right up front. How did you miss it?
He'd better watch his back.
The SWAT guys that raided my office one summer evening 20 years ago (with a full aresenal in my and my fiance's face, including the German Shepard) were beyond out of line, completely wrong, and totally unapolagetic.
The complaint I filed was answered with, "we spoke to the officers you named. They said it never happened."
I imagine their even more jacked up nowadays.
Yes - I’d really like to know what the deal is with that!! This sounds like a recipe for disaster - innocent people, police and citizens alike, could easily die as a result of this. And for what?
Right up Front.
Now there’s a clear and concise rebuttal.
Wow!
Ask him how he likes being a JBT. Because whether he intended to be such, or not, he sure does seem to have earned that moniker.
Yes, very interesting. Did they know this beforehand? From every story that I have read this action was total bull!@#$. Will wait before rendering final judgment but this looks like a total f@#$up, like the one in Atlanta.
That's the abridged version, and it's only one of several stories I could tell you about the Pinellas County, Florida Sheriff's Department.
And then there are the lawyers and the judges...
Doesn’t seem like there is much difference between mailing a package of dope to someone so you can arrest them or just planting it on them so you can arrest them.
The only difference seems to be which toys are employed and how many people are involved in the planting of the future evidence.
This belongs on every one of these threads:
Botched Paramilitary Police Raids:
An Epidemic of “Isolated Incidents”
http://www.cato.org/raidmap/
I’m surprised they manage to keep up. It seems like there is something new every week or two.
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