Roommates who sued a Maryland county Monday claim police officers illegally entered their apartment without a warrant, detained them at gunpoint without justification and unnecessarily shot their pet dog, which was left paralyzed and ultimately euthanized.
The dog, a boxer mix named Hennessey, did not attack the three officers who entered the apartment before two of them shot the animal with their firearms and the third fired a stun gun at it, according to the federal lawsuit.
The lawsuit seeks at least $16 million in damages over the June 2, 2021 encounter, which started with Prince George’s County police officers responding to a report of a dog bite at an apartment complex where the four plaintiffs lived. What happened next was captured on police body camera video and video from a plaintiff’s cellphone.
Someone shared in another thread that police officers in the U.S. kill something like 10,000 dogs a year. Psychopaths murder dogs. You don’t become a cop unless you’re a psychopath.
Not true, I know I guy who got fired from the company I worked for a few years ago, so what did he do when he wasn’t good at the job, he became a police officer.
Are you sure he wasn’t a psychopath?
I’m sure, I played soccer with him and hung out with him a few times outside of work. Pretty sure I would have noticed if he was a psychopath. Believe it or not, not everybody is a psychopath, and psychology is more complex than the black and white labels people like to dole out in the comments section on the internet.
If you’re not qualified to diagnose someone as a psychopath, you are equally unqualified to determine that someone is not a psychopath, especially if you’ve only “hung out a few times.”
Narrator: He was, in fact, a psychopath. His name was… NocturnalMorning. spooky music
These people did nothing wrong and were accosted by armed thugs in their own home. The dog did nothing wrong and was murdered. The taxpayers did nothing wrong and will pay out tons of money to these people. The police, who did everything wrong, will face no repercussions for their actions because qualified immunity dictates that they didn’t necessarily know that holding innocent people at gunpoint violates their rights.
When police break the law, they should be tried on a matter of whether or not the taxpayers are responsible for what occurred.
People like this should never get our tax dollars spent on their well-being.
We should be way more angry about this than we are.
When police break the law, they should be tried
that would be a hell of a start
We should be way more angry about this than we are.
A lot of time, effort and money is spent convincing people that the police and their abuse are things that only happens to those people.
Fun fact about this blatantly criminal police department, they currently have an officer on trial for murder because he shot a suspect 7 times while that suspect was HANDCUFFED AND IN THE FUCKING POLICE CAR
This incident happened four years ago, and taxpayers who did nothing wrong have already settled with the victim’s family for millions. The judge presiding over the case has openly accused the prosecution of sandbagging the case for four years and rejected a plea deal the prosecution offered the officer because the victim’s family protested that it was too lenient. This man shot and killed a cooperative, restrained suspect and the prosecution is doing everything they can to let him off the hook, down to and including just not having a trial because they think he’ll be convicted. This is what we mean when we say ACAB, that the police engage in blatant, open criminality up to and including murder and then an entire system does everything it can to avoid holding them responsible. Same story with Jackie Johnson, the DA who initially failed to charge the men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery. She’s been charged with misconduct as well, but it’s been years and she’s not even been arraigned. She violated the law and her oath of office in order to cover up a lynching because one of the murderers is an ex-cop and friend of hers, and she’s being protected from the consequences of enabling a lynch mob by a system that knows that the cops are there to use violence to protect aristocrats from the underclass. Same with Freddie Gray. The neighboring police department in Baltimore arrested him for having a knife even though that isn’t illegal, loaded him into a van, then the official story is “no one knows what happened and no one did anything wrong but he died of a broken neck”.
The police are a street gang. They get to use violence any time they want to without responsibility, and in exchange for that they allow the wealthy to occasionally funnel that violence toward inconvenient people. There is no law, only favor and violence.
HEY ANY OF YOU MAGA SHITHEADS WANNA TELL US ABOUT HOW YOU’RE AGAINST GOVERNMENT TYRANNY? YOU GONNA “BACK THE FUCKING BLUE” AGAIN, YOU BUNCH OF PUSSIES?
They are gonna back them, and they are gonna defend this. It’s what they do.
Ah yes paid vacation for fucking with civilians and shooting their dog
I’ll be honest, if a policemen did that to a pet of mine, their aim better be good enough to one tap me, otherwise they’re dead.
Advice I got from a cop for self defense situations. If you have to use lethal force, you’re legally better off if you finish your plate because dead people don’t testify. Be aware of that school of thought, because the cops are too.
I’d root for you in this hypothetical situation. Their aim isn’t good enough to one tap, that’s why their protocol for dealing with anything remotely scary is to have 10 of them mag dump onto one target.
ACAB
What’s up with US police and dogs, what’s the beef? I used to work briefly on emergency services and dogs, no matter how demonic, were just pushed aside if they decided to come have a sniff. Which rarely happened in the first place.
the overlap between people who would make good police officers and those who get a boner from killing animals and hurting women and minorities is 100%, because those are significant parts of the job description
It’s just part of the power trip.
ACAB.
Leak the footage perhaps?
If this article makes you angry, check out the lawsuit: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:36448809-ca52-4e6f-8653-73dbbbda9c3c
Just read the title and my first thought was “PG county?” And sure enough, fuck those cops.
Fuck those. That is completely unnecessary.
I’ll just say this. If you name your pet after liquor, I’m automatically assuming you’re trashy. Police were there to investigate a dog biting incident, and I somehow doubt these 4 are faultless.
based entirely on that trashy ass pet name.
Did they name their dog after liquor?
Maybe they adopted the dog with that name.
Maybe it’s named after W. Louis Hennessy, an American jurist who serves as judge in the District Court for Charles County, Maryland.
Maybe it’s named after the NY Jets long snapper.
Maybe your preconceptions and biases speak more about you than the people in the story.
Be better.
maybe you’re an idiot, I’d encourage you to be much better
Lol great comeback
You’re right, we should strip away the rights of anyone with a dog name you don’t like. That feels like a normal and sane thing to do.
Deciding they deserve what they got because you think they’re trashy is what makes a person trashy, not naming a pet after booze. JFC what an unhinged take.
You should feel bad for having this perspective. Reflect on that and try to be better in the future!
I realize I’m inviting down votes as well, but, ignoring the dog’s name, did he actually bite someone? If so, I can understand why the police were there and that is different from officers randomly barging into an apartment and shooting whatever dog happens to be around (which is a great story to stir people up and get clicks). Though it is still odd how it was handled, I would expect an animal control officer to be first to make contact with the dog’s owners. Not to go straight to shooting the dog?
So you didn’t read the article, then.
No I can’t seem to get it to open, which is a problem on my end.
Are the police the correct organization to handle a potential dog bite?
At least where I live, animal control falls under the police department. Could be different elsewhere.
Do you want to pay more money to make another organization who can or even more money to fire, reorganize, and train an entire county first response system?
Can I have both?
Yes, alas, nobody ever wants to pay for it lol.
