Police fatally shoot dog while executing search warrant

trivalleyherald.com ^ | 9.5.03 | Robert Airoldi

[freepatriot32]

FREMONT -- A 41-year-old Fremont man whose dog was shot by police officers when they forcibly entered his house looking for marijuana plants has a prescription from his doctor to use pot and a certificate from the Oakland Cannabis Cooperative allowing him to grow and possess it, according to documents obtained by ANG Newspapers. Robert Filgo and his wife, Yvette Filgo, 38, were arrested Tuesday night after seven police officers served a search warrant at their Niles home and found 79 plants in the back yard and garage.

[george wythe]

libertarian pot smoking, law breakers
shoot them all, in the name of Freedom

Yup, the dog had it coming,

getting high by smelling the pot odor inside the house.

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[xrp]

...guess they missed their intended target of assassinating the home owner.

[rightofrush]

I'm once again reminded of the major distinction between the Gestapo and the BATF, SWAT, FBI, et. al. - The Gestapo always knocked first.

[vin-one]

who knows the dog, was probably the mastermind behind the whole operation

it was the neighbors dog who tipped off the police.......

[rightofrush]

While your captions may not be those from the manual, they are believable.

[Old Professer]

Do you have any idea how long it took my computer to download that silliness?

[BooksForTheRight.com]

And so, if someone breaks into your home and you try to defend yourself, but it's the police, you will be shot too. If you go for your phone you will be shot. If you go for your cell phone or your glasses you will be shot. Now tell me that we live in a free country.

[MrLeRoy]

Now tell me that we live in a free country.

We don't even live in a drug free country.

[Lexington Green]

Willie Nelson's dog is real nervous today.

[jmc813]

Do you have any idea how long it took my computer to download that silliness?

But it was worth it, right?

[george wythe]

If you go for your phone you will be shot. If you go for your cell phone or your glasses you will be shot. Now tell me that we live in a free country.

As much as I dislike potheads, I'm very concerned about the erosion of our personal freedoms under the War on Drugs.

Cops could arrive at the wrong address, or the informant could give the cops wrong information, or anyone else could make a mistake and then, a citizen could lose his life on a drug bust.

In this case, a dear dog was killed, but it could have been a human also, a person just getting out of bed trying to find out what's going on.

[Old Professer]

Your picture just tied up my computer for 15 minutes; that's got to be some kind of record.

[Old Professer]

Your picture just tied up my computer for 15 minutes; that's got to be some kind of record.

[Old Professer]

Your picture just tied up my computer for 15 minutes; that's got to be some kind of record.

[Monty22]

I agree, cops are out of control.. This stuff is disgusting.

[verity]

Pot head post!

[jmc813]

Pot head post!

Are you implying that freepatriot32 is a pot head?

[xrp]

You bet! In fact, he's in the middle in the back row here:

[dljordan]

So what you're saying is that he deserved this treatment because he was a pothead? Someone deserves to be assaulted by gun wielding thugs in ski masks because of a plant? You're twisted. If you allow and even promote this kind of sick, macho behaviour by law enforcement they will eventually expand it to include YOU.

[rightofrush]

Cops could arrive at the wrong address, or the informant could give the cops wrong information, or anyone else could make a mistake and then, a citizen could lose his life on a drug bust.

This has happened. More than once.

Anyone think that there's a comonality between "dynamic" entries and the superfluous nonsense at airports? Could they be a means to condition us to a police state?