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Video surfaces of SWAT team shooting pet dog during raid
The Daily Caller ^ | 05/05/10 | Mike Riggs

Posted on 05/05/2010 3:45:32 PM PDT by OldDeckHand

The video of a Columbia, Mo., SWAT team shooting and killing a dog during a drug raid is now available online, due in part to the efforts of the Columbia Daily Tribune.

The video shows members of the Columbia Police Department executing a narcotics raid on the home of Jonathan Whitworth. While the raid, which occurred in February, only turned up a misdemeanor amount of marijuana and a glass pipe, the Columbia PD was able to charge Whitworth with second-degree child endangerment because a child lives in the home. That same child, age 7, was present when the Columbia PD conducted its raid and witnessed the police shoot both family pets — a pitbull, which was killed, and a corgi, which was shot in the leg — after they had safely entered the home.

“Did you shoot my f***ing dog?” Whitworth asks in the video. ”Oh my God, what the fuck did you do that for?”

Daily Tribune reporter Brennan David submitted a public information request for the video immediately after the charges were filed in February and was denied because the video was being used in criminal proceedings. “I knew that SWAT video was available and that SWAT teams use video. The deputy chief told me that he had watched it a few times,” David said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: banglist; beserkcop; cops; donutwatch; jackbootedthugs; lping; overreaction; policestate; scumwithbadges; swat; warondogs; warondrugs; wosd
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To: OldDeckHand

Ya notice that none of these police officers looked like police officers?

This is becoming troublesome.


41 posted on 05/05/2010 4:18:40 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: OldDeckHand

Having once been found guilty for a crime I had nothing to do with, I have no tolerance for cops acting this way. If this happened to me there would be, one way or another, hell to pay for each cop.


42 posted on 05/05/2010 4:20:29 PM PDT by scripter ("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
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To: Grunthor

They are really bad farters, which I suppose is a threat against the officers.


43 posted on 05/05/2010 4:24:58 PM PDT by Leisler
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To: OldDeckHand

They charged the guy with misdemeanor possession and ultimately let him plea down for paraphanalia.

What a bunch of A-holes.

Why does SWAT need to enter a house to arrest someone in the first place? They could wait until the guy comes out and nab him outside, where it is safe. At the door of his car, pull over with cop cars enmasse, at the grocery store, at the video store, heck, why not at his job?

There is no reason for these raids. The danger outweighs the benefit. Said danger being to others in the vicinity and even pets.

Do they get a charge out of shooting their gun at an innocent living being? It’s not like they were going to eat the dog for dinner. Nope, just kill it, cuz they can and their steroids are pushing their aggression.

Besides, is some guy smoking marijuana really worth this effort? Seems like a a lot of resources and manpower for such a dinky charge and a child could well have been injured or killed by an errant shot.

Law enforcement has their job to do but, their are more intelligent ways of overpowering a suspect and these miscreants did not use their heads for anything more than a hat rack.


44 posted on 05/05/2010 4:25:16 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: OldDeckHand
If they found so little in the way of drugs, I'd LOVE to know what kind of lies were told to get a warrant that would justify a SWAT raid. This wasn't even a no-knock warrant.

I guess they just like getting all geared up to shoot Spot and Buffy. Makes’em feel all manly inside.

Disgusting.

45 posted on 05/05/2010 4:31:01 PM PDT by ex 98C MI Dude (Alea Iacta Est)
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To: muawiyah
When the balloon goes up, our military won't be half the problem I expect from all of the local LEOs who love to flaunt their militarized SWAT prowess, which they should never have been permitted to have in the first place. All we need to know about Obambi’s plans to suppress loyal American patriots is that it includes all local LEOs (e.g., see the plans for the so-called “fusion centers”).
46 posted on 05/05/2010 4:33:32 PM PDT by Czar (NRA Life Member)
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To: OldDeckHand

Substitute the word “firearms” in place of “drugs” and you have the future.


47 posted on 05/05/2010 4:42:37 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: Leisler

“They are really bad farters, which I suppose is a threat against the officers.”

So are my Pugs (paint peelers I call ‘em) it’s a good thing I stopped smoking dope when I grew up.


48 posted on 05/05/2010 4:45:34 PM PDT by Grunthor (Over YOUR dead body!)
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To: the invisib1e hand
They probably used 40.

They probably used Foh-tay.

There fixed that for you. And yes, Oakland PD used a Glock Foh-tay on that Deer they shot.

49 posted on 05/05/2010 4:45:50 PM PDT by atomic_dog
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To: Vendome
They charged the guy with misdemeanor possession and ultimately let him plea down for paraphanalia.

A military style raid and shooting pets, for that?

Good God!

50 posted on 05/05/2010 4:48:56 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: the invisib1e hand

“Columbia PD spokeswoman Jessie Haden told David on Monday that an ongoing investigation of the use of firearms inside an occupied home is “expected to be completed within the next two weeks,” and that “Internal Affairs is conducting the review because the incident involved multiple shots and was inside an occupied residence. This allows Internal Affairs sergeants to review the incident independent from the SWAT command”

I adore this portion, “internal affairs” will “investigate” (chuckle) and of course find nothing wrong, as usual, nothing to see here..just move along.


51 posted on 05/05/2010 5:02:17 PM PDT by padre35 (You shall not ignore the laws of God, the Market, the Jungle, and Reciprocity Rm10.10)
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To: dragnet2

Good Call huh? /s


52 posted on 05/05/2010 5:15:21 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Vendome

They way the responded to this home, you’d think the occupants had just killed 125 people in Time Square with a car bomb...


53 posted on 05/05/2010 5:17:36 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: OldDeckHand

No-knock warrants and raids have practically no use law enforcement. For 99.9% of drug raids, you could walk up to the door and knock and go right in and do what you have to do. No-knocks after dark are negligent; negligent because the police are too quick to use the trgger finger. If the police don’t know with 100% certainty that a violent felon waits behind the door, then why do they have to kick the door in at night.
Just wait until the dog that is shot is being held by an 8 year-old; or is protecting the childs bedroom.
Big boys with adult toys can only mean problems and death.


54 posted on 05/05/2010 5:18:17 PM PDT by rustyboots
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To: Berlin_Freeper
"But what the aholes never understand is that you had to put up with a hundred aholes before him and eventually the tolerance for aholes drys up. So there is a video of a dog shot but are there videos of SWAT being attacked by dogs?"

And countless police officers have been attacked by people too...probably far more than by dogs...so should they have carte blanche in shooting people too?

55 posted on 05/05/2010 5:22:03 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: OldDeckHand
"I'm normally a "law & order" type myself, former military prosecutor. BUT, I have real problem with no-nocks in the war on drugs, or even nighttime raids."

This former commissioned military police officer could not agree with you more.

56 posted on 05/05/2010 5:23:57 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: dragnet2

Roid heads


57 posted on 05/05/2010 5:26:28 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: dragnet2

Target Practice and Force by Color of Law


58 posted on 05/05/2010 5:26:58 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: OldDeckHand

As a matter of *unofficial* policy, many police departments routinely kill dogs, even small ones, on general principles. Their logic is that they figure that the most a dog owner can recover in court is $500, which they won’t get if there is *any* reason, including just police testimony, that they felt “threatened”, even by a Dachshund.

This is part of the also unofficial policy of “sue us”, when the police screw up. They smash down the wrong door and roust the people inside, there is no apology, just instructions to sue the city or agency. In any event, there are no repercussions to the police department or its officers directly.


59 posted on 05/05/2010 5:27:24 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: dragnet2
Ya notice that none of these police officers looked like police officers?

They look like the SS. And how big an army do they need? How many people got killed, mugged and raped while they were playing Gestapo?

Unbelievable.

60 posted on 05/05/2010 5:30:48 PM PDT by tsomer
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