Posted on 11/20/2011 5:50:57 PM PST by bamahead
Matthew Spaulding says he and his family were terrorized at their own home by police who slammed his grandmother to the ground and shot his dogs-- missing his head by less than an inch. "Told us to get on the ground. I got on the ground they put me in handcuffs," Spaulding recalls, "Then they threw my dad to the ground and my dog Sadie was right here sniffing my head. She was next to me. They shot her. The blood got on my face and then she took off running behind me and they shot her like three more times."
Tuesday morning, Greene County Sheriffs Deputies and Perry Police officers arrived at Spaulding's Jefferson farmhouse to deliver a search warrant. The Spauldings say they were immediately ordered to the ground.. even Matthew Spauldings' disabled father, Chris. "My son hit the ground I hit the ground but I didn't make it too fast so (the officer) jumped on the middle of my back, shoved his knee in and held a gun to the back of my head and handcuffed me. After they shot my first dog my mom come out"
"They had taken me to the ground," Chris Spauldings' mother Susan Mace says, "So I was laying with my face in the ground. And I asked them why they shot the dog because the dogs weren't close to them"
The Spauldings say after the first dog was killed, a second dog running away from the shots --- and away from police--- was also shot. "They weren't barking. They weren't attacking nobody." Matthew Spaulding says, "They didn't even give us a chance to put them in the kennel. We have a big kennel outside our house we could have put them in but they wouldn't give us a chance."
Perry Police are not commenting. And they're refusing to turn over any paperwork or reports about the incident saying it's part of an ongoing investigation. But we were able to get copies of the search warrants. One warrant shows police were looking for any kind of legal or illegal drugs. The other shows police were looking for a stolen X-Box video game system. No drugs and no stolen games were found--and no one was arrested.
Chris Spaulding says he's furious his dogs were killed--his mother was ruffed up and his son was almost killed by police---all over a missing video game system. "Some of these officers should be fired because they kinda took their job too far. No common sense. No public safety when you got a kid on the ground," he says, "That's messed up man. Right beside his head. You could have shot my son."
Actually, around the same time a courier was arrested a few counties away trafficking 82 pounds of marijuana on a train. No connection between the two incidents has been publicized, but the time-frame is awfully interesting.
Why? I'm having fun and find this interesting, and as far as I know not harming anyone. It's a great exercise in testing my ability to search for specific data and puzzle through it.
An armed multi-agency pulls off a dangerous paramilitary raid, costing a million bucks, shootings rounds in the home, throwing old women to the ground, killing their dogs. For what?
Did anyone ever tell ya there is a conga-line of millions of illegal Mexicans dragging in 5,000 tons of dope every few months.
Gezzzz.
A multi-agency million dollar government operation couldn't find a crime, so maybe you'll have better luck.
The funniest part of your annoyance with me is that I have a libertarian view on marijuana. If I had my way this whole hypothetical scenario I’ve created would be a non-issue.
Without such a vigilant pursuit of pot as a criminal substance, there would be no money in clandestine farming. Nor would there be any need to stormtroop over those that did wish to grow a little weed on their own property.
That doesn’t lessen my enjoyment of researching public records and current events, and trying to build a possible storyline out of the data.
The son was busted for a small amount of meth.
There were simple assault charges.
One dog was a pit bull mix. There's no evidence of any dogs being "trained pit bull guard dogs."
You're pulling this out of your a$$, or you have direct connection with the Greene Co. sheriff.
That should be public information, shouldn't it? Checking it out and making the facts known would be step one in correcting the situation.
You bet, in addition to other comments made by Antonello on this thread.
I advise all to be very suspect of Antonello
I’m surprised that a sheriff’s deputies are involved. The sheriff could be thrown out of office by the people next election.
And you're basing this on what.......pure speculation on your part???? NOTHING in the article supports your ASSumption.
Well Gee, Excuse me for making that Assumption.
I didn’t know speculation was against the rules.
I will try to control my speculation better, just for you.
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