Was this the raid card?
Posted on 11/13/2007 6:20:23 PM PST by Malacoda
CHESTER TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- Pennsylvania State Police shot a family's fenced-in pet to death Tuesday.
Troopers later admitted they weren't supposed to be in that yard in the first place.
State troopers were in the neighborhood, trying to serve a warrant on someone. They sent a couple of extra troopers around to guard the back door. Those officers, however, cut through a neighbor's yard, and that's when they came across Sheeba, a very protective family dog, NBC 10's Tim Furlong reported.
"She was doing her job. That's what she does, she protects us," said DiQuan Dill said.
DiQuan and his five brothers and sisters got the bad news when they got home from school Tuesday that their Belgian shepard was killed in their back yard.
Their mom was there when it happened.
"I was in there laying down and, all of a sudden, I heard gunfire -- about five or six rounds," Denise Dill said.
But what disturbed the family most was that state police killed Sheeba.
"When I came to the door, they were actually next door, and I said, 'What's the matter? Who shot my dog?' And he was like, 'Your dog bit me.' I said, 'What are you doing in the yard?' And he said, 'We're looking for this guy over here.' I said, 'Why did you have to shoot the dog?' He said, 'She bit me.' I said, 'Why you didn't just get out of the yard?'"
Denise's fiancée was devastated, and she said the kids were even more upset.
"She was always happy. I don't know why they did that. She was always joyful, running around, everything," DiQuan said.
The bitten state trooper was recovering from puncture wounds to his hand.
A lieutenant at his barracks admitted the trooper should never have cut through the yard in the first place. He told NBC 10 the troopers never saw or heard the dog in the yard but that, either way, troopers are not supposed to cut through private property to serve out a warrant at another house.
"He obviously panicked, you know, and messed up," Dill said.
She got business cards from the troopers on scene, and she said one trooper apologized.
But an apology can't bring Sheeba back to the kids who grew up with her.
"We got dog food and everything, and we don't have anyone to give it to. We don't got nothing," Dill said.
State police said they do apologize and will compensate the family for their loss, Furlong reported. The man they came to get was taken into custody on pretty minor charges, Furlong said.
Take away their badge and gun, and give them a mop and bucket.
Actually, it very rarely happens. That's why its news. Other freepers' desire to kill cops notwithstanding.
Looks like Lassie got soot on her face...
Carrying a few dog biscuits in your car comes in handy at all times. My border collie is best friends with the UPS guy. He lets her sit in his seat. She’ll tear the FedEx guy to bits. Anyone guess the difference?
It’s gotten so that every nickel, dime and half-assed LEO outfit has a detachment of Nomex-clad, body-armored strumtruppen that are just dying to play with their G-5s, flash-bangs and other gee-whiz goodies.
Most, but not all of the blame goes to the War on Drugs and its consequent shredding of civil liberties, property rights and basic human dignity.
No knock warrants? Smash and enter? Blow away the wrong person? Wrong door? Opps sorry folks! Better put some ice on that.
Asset forfeiture has made it indescribably worse! If you are a greedy LEO planner and see a piece of property or hardware you covet, hey! Cook up an excuse, call in a raid, and shazzam! It’s yours!
Even if the owners are as pure as the driven snow, it’s going to cost them an arm and a leg to get it back, not to mention take a heck of a long time. In the meantime, it’s yours.
How in the world did we allow America to get to this condition?
Since when does an evil human outrank a good dog? What the hell do the PO PO’s do when their police dogs get shot by a crook?
Again????? What the hell do they do????
They shoot them!!!!
I have the same breed of dog BTW.
Someone in PA is headed for the rubber-gun squad.
“Please sign here for your property, sir.”
COPS have become just another bunch of unionized thugs - unionized thugs with badges, guns, and perks that would make the average teamster’s head spin.
There needs to be a continual accounting for incidents like these and they shouldn’t be to another COP, i.e a police chief or police supervisor - they should be accountable to a civilian review board with no police connections.
LOL. She just kinda walked into that one.
You're right. It is a brave new world, one in which dogs are more often recognized and valued as members of the family. One reason for the 2nd Amendment is to help the government storm troopers remember that We, the People, have rights that are not to be trampled upon. My gut reaction would be the same: defend my family and property and shoot back.
Depends on your definition of 'rarely'. Sheriff's deputies have shot and killed 2 dogs this year in the county where I live. Neither dog belonged to or lived where the suspect did. Almost the same scenario as this one in both cases - serving a warrant and trespassing. Bad enough if the cops apologize.
Unless management steps in with some honesty and integrity the badge is going to be a target, and not in the distant future. The Sheriff's spokesman in my county said it was a shame but that LEO's lives were more important. He said the same thing when an entire family was held at gunpoint on the ground for 4 hours because the son had the same name as a suspect in a robbery. Although law enforcement discovered within an hour that they had the wrong family, they continued to terrorize and verbally abuse this family for another 3 hours. Unfortunately this is not as rare as you would like to believe.
Those of you in law enforcement know what I am talking about...clean your house before you lose the trust of the majority.
Nobody here wants to kill anybody.
But there are three things no man will endure: you don't fuck their wife, you don't mess with their kids, and you don't kick their dog.
Any man who allows any one of these things is bound for Hell, two tiers below Hitler's special suite.
It's something I just know in my bones. No, I didn't read it anywhere-- and all evidence to the contrary I can, and actually do read--but some rules aren't explicitly enumerated.
Well that's a stupid statement. Problems like this grow into bigger problems if not checked.
Trigger happy cops, trespassing on private property without a warrant, shooting anything that moves IS a big problem anyway.
If this story was about a homeowner killing "oh lets say" three officers
for killing a dog, would you support the end result of the story?
There are stupid people in every profession. Including dog catchers.
Shame on anyone trying to justify any death of an Officer of the law over a Dog.
And yes, I hold an extremly high respect for the lives of Law enforcement!
Any more questions about where I stand on the issue of Man-VS-Dog?
Maybe you would like to know how many stray dogs I put down for chasing cattle..
Police officers know there are no real consequences for shooting dogs (only cause of action is for property damage, a couple of hundred dollars at most), so they will often do so without second thought.
"They?" Oh, I'm not so sure "they" call her 'brilliant" I am pretty sure that's just how she feels about herself, hence the self given moniker. Reminds me a little of Narcissus.
Any reason they shouldn't be prosecuted? If you or I cut through someone's yard and kill someone's dog, we would be. If a police officer has no legitimate reason for entering a person's yard, why should he be treated any differently?
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