SWAT team busts into house and kills 2 puppies over a gram of weed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbwSwvUaRqc&feature=player_embedded

In front of the children, holding father at gunpoint, then charges the father with child endangerment. The one they shot when they entered the house was sleeping in a cage, the other was a Corgi.

Over less then a gram of weed. I don't do drugs, Ineverplan on doingdrugs, but I respect the rights of people to own a small baggie of dried up leaves without having their puppies killed and their children traumatized for life. I hope these guys lose their jobs and get beaten in prison.

n00bproof

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I don't do drugs, Ineverplan on doingdrugs, but I respect the rights of people to own a small baggie of dried up leaves without having their puppies killed and their children traumatized for life. I hope these guys lose their jobs and get beaten in prison.

Hemmaroids

Same goes for breaking the speed limits. I wonder when the SWAT teams will start delivering the tickets in this friendly manner.

I think a very important point needs to be reiterated. From what I can tell, this was supposed to be a full on drug bust. You know like in those crime movies were there are guys doing cocaine with heavy weaponry around them and a ton of drugs in the area. This wasn't supposed to be for one bag of marijuana. They got wrong intelligence and they acted upon that intelligence, and did a fine job at it. They expected some resistance so the dogs could've very well be trained to distract or hurt anyone coming in. Can't blame the SWAT officers for being careful, although shooting a dog that innocent was unnecessary. People make mistakes though, and given their expectations they could not afford to ask questions first and then shoot.

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I don't do drugs, Ineverplan on doingdrugs, but I respect the rights of people to own a small baggie of dried up leaves without having their puppies killed and their children traumatized for life. I hope these guys lose their jobs and get beaten in prison.

shinian

Same goes for breaking the speed limits. I wonder when the SWAT teams will start delivering the tickets in this friendly manner.

What a sick world

I think a very important point needs to be reiterated. From what I can tell, this was supposed to be a full on drug bust. You know like in those crime movies were there are guys doing cocaine with heavy weaponry around them and a ton of drugs in the area. This wasn't supposed to be for one bag of marijuana. They got wrong intelligence and they acted upon that intelligence, and did a fine job at it. They expected some resistance so the dogs could've very well be trained to distract or hurt anyone coming in. Can't blame the SWAT officers for being careful, although shooting a dog that innocent was unnecessary. People make mistakes though, and given their expectations they could not afford to ask questions first and then shoot.

ex-mortis

This is why I hate ALL cops. They are barely human any more because of the military training they recieve, "us against them" is the way they roll. I hope they get the crap sued out of them, they should lose their jobs for this.

I think a very important point needs to be reiterated. From what I can tell, this was supposed to be a full on drug bust. You know like in those crime movies were there are guys doing cocaine with heavy weaponry around them and a ton of drugs in the area. This wasn't supposed to be for one bag of marijuana. They got wrong intelligence and they acted upon that intelligence, and did a fine job at it. They expected some resistance so the dogs could've very well be trained to distract or hurt anyone coming in. Can't blame the SWAT officers for being careful, although shooting a dog that innocent was unnecessary. People make mistakes though, and given their expectations they could not afford to ask questions first and then shoot.

ex-mortis

Nice excuse, but shooting a caged dog? You're in the wrong here man, everyone else should know that after seeing the video. I can blame them, they didn't have to take the actions they did. A bunch of raged out (most likely roid raged) SWAT cops in action, that's all I saw.

Nice excuse, but shooting a caged dog? You're in the wrong here man, everyone else should know that after seeing the video. I can blame them, they didn't have to take the actions they did. A bunch of raged out (most likely roid raged) SWAT cops in action, that's all I saw.

jer_1

Nice generalization. Considering most police departments conduct regular piss tests, and steroids are illegal.

Bang up job depicting the situation, chief.

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I think a very important point needs to be reiterated. From what I can tell, this was supposed to be a full on drug bust. You know like in those crime movies were there are guys doing cocaine with heavy weaponry around them and a ton of drugs in the area. This wasn't supposed to be for one bag of marijuana. They got wrong intelligence and they acted upon that intelligence, and did a fine job at it. They expected some resistance so the dogs could've very well be trained to distract or hurt anyone coming in. Can't blame the SWAT officers for being careful, although shooting a dog that innocent was unnecessary. People make mistakes though, and given their expectations they could not afford to ask questions first and then shoot.

jer_1

Nice excuse, but shooting a caged dog? You're in the wrong here man, everyone else should know that after seeing the video. I can blame them, they didn't have to take the actions they did. A bunch of raged out (most likely roid raged) SWAT cops in action, that's all I saw.

I never said I condoned the killing of that dog and I surely never said the cops were 100% innocent, I'm just making inferences as to why they would shoot the dog. It's easy to blame corruption and such and them just being flat out sadists killing the dog like that, but that doesn't necessarily have to be true. They could be exactly the kind of filthy pigs everyone is making them out to be, and at the same time they could be human beings that made a mistake.

Bet they probably thought the dogs were stashing kibbles and bits:(

On the youtube video of this is the police stations phone number. I encourage everyone to call and voice your complaints!Stanley09

I reckon the cops were somewhat right in going in with heavy armor, they thought he was a dealer. And with shooting the dogs it was most likely dark and they might have thought they were some sort of attack dogs (drug dealers have them).

if George Washington saw this...

[QUOTE="Stanley09"]On the youtube video of this is the police stations phone number. I encourage everyone to call and voice your complaints!chrisrooR

I don't understand this wjole "all cops are corrupt, I hate all cops" nonsense. It's just as bad as non comedic racial stereotypes.

This thread needs to die. (Kind of like that pit bull)

STurn21

I reckon the cops were somewhat right in going in with heavy armor, they thought he was a dealer. And with shooting the dogs it was most likely dark and they might have thought they were some sort of attack dogs (drug dealers have them).

SgtKevali

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This thread needs to die. (Kind of like that pit bull)

matthayter700

I reckon the cops were somewhat right in going in with heavy armor, they thought he was a dealer. And with shooting the dogs it was most likely dark and they might have thought they were some sort of attack dogs (drug dealers have them).

I reckon the cops were somewhat right in going in with heavy armor, they thought he was a dealer. And with shooting the dogs it was most likely dark and they might have thought they were some sort of attack dogs (drug dealers have them).

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I reckon the cops were somewhat right in going in with heavy armor, they thought he was a dealer. And with shooting the dogs it was most likely dark and they might have thought they were some sort of attack dogs (drug dealers have them).

chrisrooR

Like I said, they thought he was a drug dealer, and they probably thought they were attack dogs. Plus it's the heat of the moment, you have to account for that.

Wow first off that is so sad...for the kids the dogs the entire family. If someone did that to my dogs...lets just say the dogs wouldn't be the only ones hurting. Either I'd end up tazed/shot or the police would be dead and I'd go to prsion. Don't mean to sound violent but shooting a persons dog is like shooting someone's family member at least to me it is. I'm with you OP, I hope these police face severe punishment. I mean wow...just wow if I see them (not that I know what they look like I'm not brave enough to watch the vid)they had better stay far away from me. I swear this story makes me ridiculously mad.

I'll admit I'm a big dog lover and may love dogs more than others, but this is beyond horrible to bad its not feudal times and we can't put the police offers in the stocks then saw there hands off. Oops I'm getting violent again,but this story is just gosh...terrible. Every time I think about it again it makes me want to hurt the men who did it. The dogs weren't posing a threat and the family had a little bit of weed c'mon. I don't do drugs either, but what was the point of shooting the dogs...for any reason much less over a crime, that is a tiny step up from a mis-demeanor.

And am I the only one who suspects that people's reactions to this story would be different if instead of finding marijuana, the officers had found heroin or crack?

And am I the only one who suspects that people's reactions to this story would be different if instead of finding marijuana, the officers had found heroin or crack?

MrGeezer

My reaction wouldn't be much different, slightly but not a lot. The dogs had nothing to do with what the people were doing sooo...

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And am I the only one who suspects that people's reactions to this story would be different if instead of finding marijuana, the officers had found heroin or crack?

TacticalDesire

My reaction wouldn't be much different, slightly but not a lot. The dogs had nothing to do with what the people were doing sooo...

And yet a hell of a lot of people here ARE talking about the small bag of weed, as if it were even the least bit relevant to the situation.

Just saw the video and I can't believe they did this. Why did they have to kill dogs? ********

I do think that man was guilty of child endangerment, but that doesn't mean they can go in shooting puppies.

I reckon the cops were somewhat right in going in with heavy armor, they thought he was a dealer. And with shooting the dogs it was most likely dark and they might have thought they were some sort of attack dogs (drug dealers have them).