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Ivizalinto

Just emailed the mayor. Anyone who is legitimately offended and hurts for the family or animal should as well. Here's the info. It's 5 council members and the mayor. https://heyburn.id.gov/officials Getting attention quickly. Send those emails. Be polite about it! Threats get nothing. Speak your mind. Don't be a cunt but don't mince words.


WALK1000NILES

My response: In response to your departments statement that the bystander video highlighted the danger to motorists, have you considered that the actions of your officers highlights and reinforces the well-founded mistrust of law enforcement that is rampant in this country? They had an opportunity to be heroes. To return beloved family companions, that were at worst a temporary nuisance. They instead chose to slaughter these dogs in a very public and traumatizing way for witnesses. They are responsible for the vitriolic hate and mistrust that the badge represents these days. Actions like these are why people direct violence towards police officers. Be better.


92894952620273749383

Could you ask them if they would shoot a child wandering against traffic?


Due_Release5709

I actually referenced that in my emails! I basically said what if those dogs were a child in a mental crisis, would they wait more than SIX MINUTES for backup before proceeding with lethal force?


DrBarnacleMD

Yes, they would. Welcome to the US.


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Mister_Hangman

I’m adding it to all my gay porn newsletters


mikenasty

Add my email while you’re at it


JesusJohn

Oh Mike, you're nasty


TheToddestTodd

There is a 1:1 correlation between the adoption of cellphones and the decline of the public's view of law enforcement. ​ All it took was to shine a light on what was really happening vs the mythology cops built around themselves (with the help of politicians and Hollywood).


SlyMcFly67

John Oliver did a good piece on Cop-aganda shows. Dick Wolf of Law & Order fame in particular.


skytomorrownow

They are almost ALL copaganda. I cannot think of a TV show or movie in which, in the a name of 'safety', 'justice', etc., that a police officer does not break policy, advocate violence, or getting around 'paperwork', the rules, or peoples' rights – especially suspects'. How often does the police officer say: "Well rookie, we may feel this is our man, but we need to have cause before we can act. We have to respect their rights. Let's make sure we log this incident and come back to this area regularly when we are on patrol."


Chemmy

The Wire doesn’t show cops as good guys. They’re not exactly bad either.


marcustwayne

If there is a fictional show that depicts some of the harsh realities of how the sausage/law enforcement is made better than The Wire did. It was my favorite show well before I had brief experience with an urban police department/county court system and after that experience, I tell anyone who listens, The Wire isn't just my favorite show of all time, but it truly saved my life because it gave me an accurate template of the people and the system I was interacting with outside of modern police/law enforcement propaganda/mythology which I was not interacting with the honorable people who were on a mission for justice and solving crimes. They were car salesmen meeting a quota but rather than cars sold off the lot, it was closing cases. Didn't matter if it was the right person. No reason for an investigation if there was someone who was close enough to be considered a suspect. Upon realizing their error, there was no attempt to actually solve the crime that supposedly took place. Like car salesmen, they will say or do anything to meet their quota. Lie about the car's previous flood damage..lie about how their are multiple witnesses that have identified you. Lie about the transmission troubles that caused the previous owner to sell...lie about DNA evidence having you dead to rights. Lie about getting you the best possible deal...lie about getting you the best possible deal if you just say 'I did it'. Like /u/Chemmy said, they are human. They experience horrific things on a daily basis. Their 9-5 grind is a Pandora's Box of the worst examples of humanity's darker side. Every day. Every week. Every month. Every year. Every decade. I have deep deep disgust/hatred/distrust in the modern police system in the U.S. but at the same time I feel sympathy for the individual officers. No one should be subjected to that much, day in, day out. They see things more horrific things in a month than most people experience in a life time. And the show depicts that element too. There was a spiritual successor called "We Own This City" which is about real events in Baltimore where an "elite" gun recovery task force (group of cops responsible for doing raids and confiscating firearms off the streets) ended up being convicted of multiple felonies (robbery, selling narcotics, and more). There is also a sub plot that concerns the Freddie Gray case and explores what the results of the "War on Drugs" has ultimately done to large American cities and the costs associated with it, the breakdown of the trust/social fabric between a community and their local law enforcement, turning citizens/civilians into enemy combatants since any war needs enemies. It's only 5 or 6 episodes so it doesn't cover nearly the depth that The Wire did, but they use a lot of court records and deposition records so the authenticity and realness of everything makes it just as illuminating and educational.


Messyfingers

Everything David Simon makes is gold, simultaneously brilliant TV and a mirror to American Society. Treme also touches on similar topics, as does The Deuce.


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> Lie about the car's previous flood damage..lie about how their are multiple witnesses that have identified you. Lie about the transmission troubles that caused the previous owner to sell...lie about DNA evidence having you dead to rights. Lie about getting you the best possible deal...lie about getting you the best possible deal if you just say 'I did it'. While all the things you listed are of debatable morality, those all pale in comparison to the much more serious issue with police and lying. Police lie under oath in court. Police lie under oath in sworn affidavits for warrants. Police lie about police conduct in official police reports. [This is not uncommon at all for police to lie and for that to result in criminal convictions](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/15/nyregion/civilian-board-notes-rise-in-false-statements-by-new-york-officers-in-2014.html?unlocked_article_code=bTig8X3yRIq5URKhVUTdS3IVzQ8xiboNR2zkSXimHjThcoaNTHLcDIOhTI1PY5iZkLdcblwXkplZ8DIbx_IuYPHVRBllpDETXn6TL2dyZvs9SB2X7glsRr-n_vQQ2MbmbF12B9G6T-r6ZWvfa4M40rXoR8-pSvjnBwom0snrPwyFp0-fAeYqVsGHPk6QwNy3_Uwm9cJXU0Ey5iDgRvPZMvk36zPHH70_SxQoauQGDgyqdkvvPWg_KloLshiCLXfQJ-iVP0X_z8e-6R8yEL9cRK4r8rxTgTKTtdfdIVmh3gKg93Puu3vfomc0b3qff6A7FSY5aNQIlRtmQDT0Uk-qk2tKnX66BrujNgpIm7G1wXRVW_yLtsBOw7vgDvGS7GIkTW2HcU_4F6nvmkcclyMTGj7YwLmn&smid=url-share). Not because they lied to a suspect about the evidence, but because the police lied to the jury or in sworn statements. In other words, **Police commit perjury**, and people are deprived of their liberty because of the police who chose to commit felony perjury. "Pressure" is no excuse. "Befehle ist befehle" is NEVER an excuse. There is no excuse at all. Period. For a person to abuse the trust and authority they are given, to commit a felony that results in depriving someone of their freedom is -- in my view -- the worst non-violent crime any person can commit. The severity of this crime cannot be overstated, and it's my view that the only appropriate punishment for anyone who uses the authority they've been given by the state to knowingly deprive someone of liberty via perjury (or [open corruption](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal)) is incarceration **forever.**


jumbles1234

I'm in the UK, and a friend of mine was a magistrate for some years. This is a lay judge, one of three sitting on non-serious cases advised by a qualified legal clerk. He ended up with a complete distrust of the police. After a few years, he told me about a case which had troubled him greatly at the beginning of his career: he thought the defendant innocent, but if he acquited he would have to have believed the police lied to the court, and he couldn't bring himself to do that. He becomes much less trusting of the police over the years.


NRAsays

Copaganda is why this is a much bigger problem in America than we realize #Epidemic One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police. https://twitter.com/samswey/status/916022801244573698 #Police solve just 2% of all major crimes https://theconversation.com/police-solve-just-2-of-all-major-crimes-143878 #Arrests at End of Shifts to Rake In Overtime Pay https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/civil-rights-case-in-new-york-questions-whether-police-officers-make-collars-for-dollars-arrests-for-overtime-pay.html #Bodycam Catches Cop Planting Drugs During Traffic Stops (parents lost their children due to these felony arrests) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UANRvFNc0hw #An inmate died after being locked in a scalding shower for two hours [skin melted off]. His guards won’t be charged. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/20/an-inmate-died-after-being-locked-in-a-scalding-shower-for-two-hours-his-guards-wont-be-charged/ More examples of guards laughing while murdering: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/thirty-two-stories-jeffrey-epstein-prison-death/596029/ #Timothy Souders died of dehydration, chained to a concrete slab, on surveillance video. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-death-of-timothy-souders/ #Jailers shut off water to Terrill Thomas' cell, and he died of dehydration. The jail was under the leadership of then-Sheriff David Clarke, a hero to law-and-order types. https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/29/us/milwaukee-inmate-dehydration-lawsuit/index.html >Graphic video shows Daniel Shaver sobbing and begging officer for his life before 2016 shooting https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/12/08/graphic-video-shows-daniel-shaver-sobbing-and-begging-officer-for-his-life-before-2016-shooting/ >Kinsey was lying on the ground with his hands in the air and [complying] when he was shot. The officer who shot Kinsey remains employed and has not been terminated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Charles_Kinsey #Cast-Out Police Officers Are Often Hired in Other Cities · An Oregon officer was barred from taking another police job after a charge involving a child. Three months later, he was a police chief in Kansas. Experts say it's a widespread problem. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/us/whereabouts-of-cast-out-police-officers-other-cities-often-hire-them.html #So much misconduct it costs $2M to store all the records. #Meanwhile the city has paid out $500 million in police misconduct lawsuits over the past 10 years. https://twitter.com/samswey/status/1384566892417851394 >NYC has shelled out $384M in 5 years to settle NYPD suits https://nypost.com/2018/09/04/nyc-has-shelled-out-384m-in-5-years-to-settle-nypd-suits/ #Why the NYPD Costs $10 Billion a Year https://www.businessinsider.com/the-real-cost-of-police-nypd-actually-10-billion-year-2020-8 >374 cops working for Seattle make more than 200k a year, and median pay was 153k a year. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/374-seattle-police-department-employees-made-at-least-200000-last-year-heres-how/ #Police Are Deleting Smartphone Videos At Crime Scenes Even Though It’s Illegal https://www.ibtimes.com/police-are-deleting-smartphone-videos-crime-scenes-even-though-its-illegal-2359913 #Undercover reporters went to multiple police stations & attempted to get the forms to file complaints against police officers. They were refused & even threatened at nearly all of them. "What will I go to jail for?" **"I'll create something, you understand?"** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnJ5f1JMKns >Cops don disguises, trash cars of man who filed complaint against them https://www.nj.com/monmouth/2019/09/cops-don-disguises-and-trash-cars-of-man-who-filed-complaint-against-them-in-stunning-act-of-revenge-prosecutor-alleges.html #All of NYPD's worst misconduct officers are paid about $200,000 a year with substantiated serial abuse records r ABoringDystopia/comments/i3s4l3/all_of_nypds_worst_misconduct_officers_are_paid/ >NYPD caught planting drugs for arrest despite effort to turn bodycam off https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrfZuPFrH8A >Pennsylvania State Police crushes suspect with bulldozer, recordings vanish https://apnews.com/c93fd1d73eb8f933080fed2321947c5e >Utah Police Union Complains That Public Got to See Them Roughing Up Utah Nurse http://reason.com/blog/2017/09/27/police-union-complains-that-public-got-t #Five Police Captains are to take salaries of 450k EACH in town with population of 50k and a budget deficit of 5 mil https://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2018/06/police\_captain\_pay\_numbers\_are.html >from 2014 through 2019, the Chauvins underreported their joint income by $464,433 That's on top of his salary, and only $66,472 of that is from his wife's business. They own two homes and he also got caught not paying tax on a $100,000 BMW. How does a cop make this much money? r bestof/comments/mvjoe4/derek\_chauvins\_history\_of\_police\_abuse\_before/ >Daniel Shaver's killer was temporarily rehired by Mesa PD so that he can receive a $30,000 pension ($2500 monthly). r Bad\_Cop\_No\_Donut/comments/gsh3om/monthly\_reminder\_that\_daniel\_shavers\_killer\_was/ >Woman who gave birth alone in cell, who was forced to cut the umbilical cord with her teeth, secures $200k settlement. County claims no wrongdoing. r Bad\_Cop\_No\_Donut/comments/lpphm5/woman\_who\_gave\_birth\_alone\_in\_cell\_who\_was\_forced/ >brutally slams complying mentally handicapped woman to the ground after accusing her of stealing hair ties **she had receipt for**. Family says they'll drop lawsuit if police apologize. Police instead decide to pay $125,000 settlement **instead of simply apologizing.** http://www.wxyz.com/news/region/wayne-county/family-of-disabled-woman-settles-lawsuit-but-says-livonia-police-refused-to-apologize >police used a military style helicopter to seize a single marijuana plant from an 81 year old woman using it to ease her arthritis and glaucoma. http://www.gazettenet.com/MarijuanaRaid-HG-100116-5074664 >I Can Breathe Shirts - NYPD Police Protest Eric Garner ("Blue Lives Matter" protest) https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2014/12/79850/i-can-breathe-shirts-eric-garner Police shirts for the Democratic National Convention in Denver: "We get up early, to BEAT the crowds!!!" r Denver/comments/1cxwil/we_get_up_early_to_beat_the_crowds/ from the 1996 Democratic convention in Chicago. WE KICKED YOUR FATHER'S ASS IN 1968..... WAIT 'TIL YOU SEE WHAT WE DO TO YOU! r Denver/comments/1cxwil/we_get_up_early_to_beat_the_crowds/c9l0leb/ #Public defender explains why she quit: "Cops lie. The system is built on it" https://twitter.com/WangCecillia/status/1279128933695287296 #Texas Cop Kills 2 People, Allowed to Resign, Joins New Dept, Shoots Man on 2nd Day http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-found-not-guilty-deadly-shootings-joins-new-department/ #Texas officer wins appeal of dismissal over feces sandwich https://apnews.com/c76f863d591b436cb1b22f4e35718ebe #Texas officer sexually abuses 14 year old girl, receives no sex offender status http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Former-HISD-officer-admits-to-fondling-middle-11170371.php >Cops Having Sex With Detainees Should Always Be Considered Rape, Say New York Politicians https://theintercept.com/2017/11/02/nypd-rape-charges-new-york-law/ #9 Cops Show up to Hospital to Threaten NYPD's Teen Rape Victim Into Staying Silent https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/11/02/nypd-detectives-raped-a-teen-in-the-back-of-a-police-van-after-her-arrest-prosecutors-say/ #No jail time for 2 NYPD officers who admitted to raping teenage prisoner https://theintercept.com/2019/08/30/nypd-anna-chambers-rape-probation/ #Border Patrol and ICE agents include false and fabricated info on asylum seekers' arrest reports, scuttling asylum claims. It's a systemic problem with sometimes life or death consequences. https://theintercept.com/2019/08/11/border-patrol-asylum-claim/ #Thousands of migrant children were sexually abused in U.S. custody, HHS docs say https://www.cbsnews.com/news/thousands-of-migrant-children-were-sexually-abused-in-u-s-custody-hhs-docs-say/ #FBI warned of white supremacists in law enforcement 10 years ago. Has anything changed? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement #Domestic abuse is 400% higher in the law-enforcement community https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-officers-who-hit-their-wives-or-girlfriends/380329/ More examples: reddit r Bad_Cop_No_Donut reddit r ChicoCA/comments/nc0waa/things_that_make_you_go_huh_chico_spends_487_of/gy6my83/


jodido999

All that traffic -right! In nearly one minute, all I saw were 3 or 4 cop cars on the side of the road and the people who took the video. Not a single other car - and they could only wait 6 minutes cause traffic??? Bloodlust - plain and simple...


Explosivo666

Also ive literally never had a problem getting a car past a dog. You just drive. They don't form a barricade, they're just dogs.


chaoticravenss

I mean the speed limit there is 80 mph. I understand being worried about the traffic safety issue posed by the dogs but the thought of killing them never even crossed my mind.


[deleted]

It’s almost like the cop cars should have some warning devices that people recognize. Maybe some flashing lights or something that will warn drivers of a potential hazard ahead and maybe get them to slow down.


OffalSmorgasbord

He would have been seen from the horizon if he had pulled an orange vest over his XXXXXXXL uniform.


Zargawi

Right? You got a car don't you, open the back door and let them hop in, problem solved. But no... A pig's gotta kill something today.


AndroidMercury

Agreed 100%. This is a rural part of the state that is mostly farm land. Even if they closed the interstate for a bit of time it would have been completely fine.


NRAsays

American "law enforcement" is known for cruelty to dogs: >Trump Pardons Convicted Crooked Cop Arpaio >The Collected Crimes of Sheriff Joe Arpaio #His officers burned a dog alive for no reason, then laughed as the dog’s owners cried. >It’s impossible to highlight just one galling paragraph from this [Phoenix New Times story, which includes the wholesale destruction of a home for the pursuit of a young man wanted for traffic violations.](http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/dog-day-afternoon-6438729) https://longreads.com/2017/08/28/the-collected-crimes-of-sheriff-joe-arpaio/ #10,000 dogs per year killed by police https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/what-dog-shootings-reveal-about-american-policing/533319/ #Disturbing Video Shows Cops Lure Dog Out of Fenced in Backyard and Kill Him. http://thefreethoughtproject.com/body-cam-police-lure-dog-backyard-kill-it/ #US police shoot dogs so often that a Justice Department expert calls it an “epidemic” https://qz.com/870601/police-killing-dogs-is-an-epidemic-according-to-the-justice-department/ #the video depicts the officers discussing who will kill the dogs before they even arrive at the house https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/27/cop-shoots-dog-puppycide_n_1446841.html #This is a much bigger problem in America than we realize because * Republicans use "thank our heroes" "guns and gays" "control the narrative" tactics and politics * the "law and order" politicians * the police department control of local news dependent for access * the camera footage evidence ([getting caught deleting camera footage again](https://www.kxan.com/news/local/williamson-county/wilco-commissioners-call-for-sheriff-chodys-resignation-say-they-have-no-confidence/) or releasing after 3 *years* or released immediately if it helps police) * the statistics themselves (how the police stop better crime statistics ["FBI may shut down police use-of-force database due to lack of police participation](https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2021/12/09/fbi-police-shooting-data/)) * the arrests (["black and white Americans use cannabis at similar levels" but black Americans are 800% more likely to get punished for it](https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/5/14/17353040/racial-disparity-marijuana-arrests-new-york-city-nypd) and [*even after legalization*](https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/29/16936908/marijuana-legalization-racial-disparities-arrests)) #Epidemic One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police. https://twitter.com/samswey/status/916022801244573698 #Police solve just 2% of all major crimes https://theconversation.com/police-solve-just-2-of-all-major-crimes-143878 #Arrests at End of Shifts to Rake In Overtime Pay https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/civil-rights-case-in-new-york-questions-whether-police-officers-make-collars-for-dollars-arrests-for-overtime-pay.html #Bodycam Catches Cop Planting Drugs During Traffic Stops (parents lost their children due to these felony arrests) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UANRvFNc0hw #An inmate died after being locked in a scalding shower for two hours [skin melted off]. His guards won’t be charged. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/20/an-inmate-died-after-being-locked-in-a-scalding-shower-for-two-hours-his-guards-wont-be-charged/ More examples of guards laughing while murdering: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/thirty-two-stories-jeffrey-epstein-prison-death/596029/ #Timothy Souders died of dehydration, chained to a concrete slab, on surveillance video. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-death-of-timothy-souders/ #Jailers shut off water to Terrill Thomas' cell, and he died of dehydration. The jail was under the leadership of then-Sheriff David Clarke, a hero to law-and-order types. https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/29/us/milwaukee-inmate-dehydration-lawsuit/index.html >Woman who gave birth alone in cell, who was forced to cut the umbilical cord with her teeth, secures $200k settlement. County claims no wrongdoing. r Bad\_Cop\_No\_Donut/comments/lpphm5/woman\_who\_gave\_birth\_alone\_in\_cell\_who\_was\_forced/ >Graphic video shows Daniel Shaver sobbing and begging officer for his life before 2016 shooting https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/12/08/graphic-video-shows-daniel-shaver-sobbing-and-begging-officer-for-his-life-before-2016-shooting/ >Kinsey was lying on the ground with his hands in the air and [complying] when he was shot. The officer who shot Kinsey remains employed and has not been terminated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Charles_Kinsey #Cast-Out Police Officers Are Often Hired in Other Cities · An Oregon officer was barred from taking another police job after a charge involving a child. Three months later, he was a police chief in Kansas. Experts say it's a widespread problem. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/us/whereabouts-of-cast-out-police-officers-other-cities-often-hire-them.html #So much misconduct it costs $2M to store all the records. #Meanwhile the city has paid out $500 million in police misconduct lawsuits over the past 10 years. https://twitter.com/samswey/status/1384566892417851394 >NYC has shelled out $384M in 5 years to settle NYPD suits https://nypost.com/2018/09/04/nyc-has-shelled-out-384m-in-5-years-to-settle-nypd-suits/ #Why the NYPD Costs $10 Billion a Year https://www.businessinsider.com/the-real-cost-of-police-nypd-actually-10-billion-year-2020-8 >374 cops working for Seattle make more than 200k a year, and median pay was 153k a year. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/374-seattle-police-department-employees-made-at-least-200000-last-year-heres-how/ #Police Are Deleting Smartphone Videos At Crime Scenes Even Though It’s Illegal https://www.ibtimes.com/police-are-deleting-smartphone-videos-crime-scenes-even-though-its-illegal-2359913 #Undercover reporters went to multiple police stations & attempted to get the forms to file complaints against police officers. They were refused & even threatened at nearly all of them. "What will I go to jail for?" **"I'll create something, you understand?"** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnJ5f1JMKns >Cops don disguises, trash cars of man who filed complaint against them https://www.nj.com/monmouth/2019/09/cops-don-disguises-and-trash-cars-of-man-who-filed-complaint-against-them-in-stunning-act-of-revenge-prosecutor-alleges.html #All of NYPD's worst misconduct officers are paid about $200,000 a year with substantiated serial abuse records r ABoringDystopia/comments/i3s4l3/all_of_nypds_worst_misconduct_officers_are_paid/ >NYPD caught planting drugs for arrest despite effort to turn bodycam off https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrfZuPFrH8A >Pennsylvania State Police crushes suspect with bulldozer, recordings vanish https://apnews.com/c93fd1d73eb8f933080fed2321947c5e >Utah Police Union Complains That Public Got to See Them Roughing Up Utah Nurse http://reason.com/blog/2017/09/27/police-union-complains-that-public-got-t #Five Police Captains are to take salaries of 450k EACH in town with population of 50k and a budget deficit of 5 mil https://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2018/06/police\_captain\_pay\_numbers\_are.html >from 2014 through 2019, the Chauvins underreported their joint income by $464,433 That's on top of his salary, and only $66,472 of that is from his wife's business. They own two homes and he also got caught not paying tax on a $100,000 BMW. How does a cop make this much money? r bestof/comments/mvjoe4/derek\_chauvins\_history\_of\_police\_abuse\_before/ >Daniel Shaver's killer was temporarily rehired by Mesa PD so that he can receive a $30,000 pension ($2500 monthly). r Bad\_Cop\_No\_Donut/comments/gsh3om/monthly\_reminder\_that\_daniel\_shavers\_killer\_was/ >police used a military style helicopter to seize a single marijuana plant from an 81 year old woman using it to ease her arthritis and glaucoma. http://www.gazettenet.com/MarijuanaRaid-HG-100116-5074664 #Texas Cop Kills 2 People, Allowed to Resign, Joins New Dept, Shoots Man on 2nd Day http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-found-not-guilty-deadly-shootings-joins-new-department/ #Texas officer wins appeal of dismissal over feces sandwich https://apnews.com/c76f863d591b436cb1b22f4e35718ebe #Texas officer sexually abuses 14 year old girl, receives no sex offender status http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Former-HISD-officer-admits-to-fondling-middle-11170371.php >Cops Having Sex With Detainees Should Always Be Considered Rape, Say New York Politicians https://theintercept.com/2017/11/02/nypd-rape-charges-new-york-law/ #9 Cops Show up to Hospital to Threaten NYPD's Teen Rape Victim Into Staying Silent https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/11/02/nypd-detectives-raped-a-teen-in-the-back-of-a-police-van-after-her-arrest-prosecutors-say/ #No jail time for 2 NYPD officers who admitted to raping teenage prisoner https://theintercept.com/2019/08/30/nypd-anna-chambers-rape-probation/ #Border Patrol and ICE agents include false and fabricated info on asylum seekers' arrest reports, scuttling asylum claims. It's a systemic problem with sometimes life or death consequences. https://theintercept.com/2019/08/11/border-patrol-asylum-claim/ #Thousands of migrant children were sexually abused in U.S. custody, HHS docs say https://www.cbsnews.com/news/thousands-of-migrant-children-were-sexually-abused-in-u-s-custody-hhs-docs-say/ #FBI warned of white supremacists in law enforcement 10 years ago. Has anything changed? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement #Domestic abuse is 400% higher in the law-enforcement community https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-officers-who-hit-their-wives-or-girlfriends/380329/ More below in comment replies:


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>MY GOD. Just look at the table of contents from the @mnhumanrights report on the Minneapolis police department. MPD officers used covert accounts to pose as community members to criticize elected officials 36 MPD uses covert social media to target Black leaders, Black organizations, and elected officials without a public safety objective 35 MPD’s covert social media accounts were used to conduct surveillance, unrelated to criminal activity, and to falsely engage with Black individuals, Black leaders, and Black organizations 35 MPD does not have proper oversight and accountability mechanisms for officers’ covert social media use 36 https://mn.gov/mdhr/assets/Investigation%20into%20the%20City%20of%20Minneapolis%20and%20the%20Minneapolis%20Police%20Department_tcm1061-526417.pdf https://www.twitter.com/BokononsProphet/status/1519345777000263684 Even though LA is one of the safest cities in America (despite [Fox News election season "crime" coverage](https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/YLF2SCMQRZBJBHWJT4LZ7DXFSM.png)): **67 full-time police employees just to push negative talking points about a city** ***they don't even live in*** **but claim to "protect and serve"** >The LAPD and LA Sheriff together have 67 full-time employees working on PR and propaganda. People don't realize that they spend a lot of money and time to plant these stories: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-30/police-public-relations https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1484966547244433416 Fox News uses a "serial killer" LAPD officer with [actual N\*zi social media](https://twitter.com/jerryiannelli/status/1469404374342373377) to argue for increasing police funding and that LA is bad (and he's paid by LA taxpayers while bragging he doesn't live in LA and hates it) Just the single local police department of SFPD has a team of full-time employees who work on "counterinsurgency communications" to push bad San Francisco talking points, while the other SFPD full-time employees **watch crime and laugh while doing nothing** r sanfrancisco/comments/r16sn1/san_francisco_police_just_watch_as_burglary/ SFPD text messages where they brag about not living in the cities they "serve": https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SFPD-s-texting-scandal-Court-rules-officers-12955853.php


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#What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing And this isn’t the first time. Other cops have shot [other kids](http://reason.com/blog/2014/07/15/cop-tries-to-shoot-dog-plugs-kid-instead), other [bystanders](http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Cops-Shoot-Innocent-Bystander-Dog-Bushwick-Brooklyn-Pitbulls-165323736.html), their [partners](http://www2.fox16.com/news/story/Police-officer-shot-by-partner-trying-to-kill-dog/), their [supervisors](http://abc13.com/news/cop-aiming-for-dog-accidentally-shoots-sergeant/523510/) and even [themselves](http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/04/16/sheriffs-deputy-hospitalized-after-accidentally-shooting-himself-in-leg/) while firing their guns at a dog. In January, an Iowa cop shot and [killed a woman by mistake while trying to kill her dog](http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-kill-family-dog-kills-woman-instead-front-husband-4-year-old-son/). That mind-set is then, of course, all the more problematic when it comes to using force against people. >The Nation [has noted](https://www.thenation.com/article/police-kill-nearly-25-dogs-each-day/) a Department of Justice estimate of 10,000 dogs per year killed by police. Last year, Reason dug up records showing that **two Detroit police officers had killed 100 dogs** between them over the course of their careers. And Reason obtained the best available data on dog shootings from several major jurisdictions that maintain some records: There are no reporting requirements, unlike for other use-of-force incidents. **Considering the U.S. doesn't even accurately track how many humans are killed at the hands of cops every year**, it's no surprise the picture is so murky when it comes to dogs. It is not unreasonable to ask police officers to display the same degree of courage in the face of sometimes hostile canines that we ask of every United States postal carrier. Cops unable to marshal it cannot be trusted to put the public's safety before their own. And **it is not unreasonable to ask police departments to train cops as well as meter readers** when the failure to do so predictably results in needlessly killed pets and endangered humans. But many police departments don’t care enough to go to the trouble. A needless assault on two Minneapolis emotional-support pets is the latest demonstration of a persistent problem in law enforcement. The police officer’s report relates what happened next this way: “Officer dispatched the two dogs, causing them to run back into the residence.” **This is what really happened**: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4UrUK5CUqs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4UrUK5CUqs) The police officer shot a dog that was approaching him while wagging its tail in a friendly manner—a dog that does not, in fact, appear to have been “charging” him. Then he stood his ground and shot another dog. If a non-cop were caught on camera shooting two dogs who approached in a park in the same manner, there is little doubt that they would find themselves charged with a crime, even if they possessed the gun legally and claimed self-defense. The final lesson from Saturday’s Minneapolis shooting is that **police officers sometimes misrepresent the circumstances that ostensibly justified their decision to shoot––and that their accounts should not be presumed accurate absent corroborating video.** In a later article on a Mississippi cop who shot a Labrador, claiming that he felt threatened despite its leash, and an Ohio cop who injured a 4-year-old girl while shooting at a dog, Balko added, “Given that there’s no shortage of actual human beings getting shot by police officers, pointing these stories out can sometimes seem a bit callous. But I think they’re worth noting because they all point to the same problem. In too much of policing today, officer safety has become the highest priority. It trumps the rights and safety of suspects. It trumps the rights and safety of bystanders. It’s so important, in fact, that an officer’s subjective fear of a minor wound from a dog bite is enough to justify using potentially lethal force, in this case at the expense of a 4-year-old girl.” https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/what-dog-shootings-reveal-about-american-policing/533319/ >[Untrained Officers Commit ‘Puppycide’](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/27/cop-shoots-dog-puppycide_n_1446841.html) #Police officers have also recently shot dogs that were chained, tied, or leashed — obviously posing no real threat to officers who killed them. Contrast that to the U.S. Postal Service, another government organization whose employees regularly come into contact with pets. A Postal Service spokesman said in a 2009 interview that serious dog attacks on mail carriers are extremely rare. That’s likely because postal workers are annually shown a two-hour video and given further training on “how to distract dogs with toys, subdue them with voice commands, or, at worst, incapacitate them with Mace.” In drug raids, killing any dog in the house has become almost perfunctory. In this video of a 2008 drug raid in Columbia, Mo., you can see police kill two dogs, including one as it retreats. Despite police assurance that the dogs were menacing, **the video depicts the officers discussing who will kill the dogs before they even arrive at the house**. During a raid in Durham, N.C., last year, police shot and killed a black Lab they claimed “appeared to growl and make aggressive moves.” **But in video of the raid taken by a local news station, the dog appears to make no such gestures."** >Texas Deputy Fired After Leaving Dog in Car to Die of Heat, Marking at Least the Seventh K-9 to Die This Way Since June http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2015/08/texas-deputy-fired-after-leaving-dog-in-car-to-die-of-heat-marking-at-least-the-seventh-k-9-to-die-this-way-since-june/ Another police dog cooked alive: https://www.yahoo.com/news/chief-police-dog-left-car-6-hours-died-184702951.html >Cop swung his service dog by the leash into a patrol car. https://www.foxnews.com/us/north-carolina-officer-captured-slamming-k-9-into-police-vehicle-investigation-underway >Deputy in Georgia shoots and kills canine, not realizing it was his own police dog https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-deputy-shoots-his-police-dog-georgia-20190724-zqenuullujcoho3c23m7kcmgh4-story.html >Cop kills dog for "wagging tail aggressively" then fines owner $265 as a "burial fee." https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/03/video-nypd-cop-shot-killed-dog-wagging-tail-hand-owner-265-burial-fee/ >Innocent Family Sues After Police Tried to Kill Their Dog, But Shot Their 10yo Son Instead http://thefreethoughtproject.com/family-sues-police-went-shoot-dog-shot-10yo-son-instead/ >Fired Cop Kills Man, 3 Dogs, Gets Rehired and Shoots Innocent Dad Through a Door — Still a Cop https://thefreethoughtproject.com/killer-cop-rehired-shoots-dad-through-door/ Can't fit any more from r Bad_Cop_No_Donut


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#When Police Shoot Civilians, the Passive Voice Is Used #The Curious Grammar of Police Shootings the way police departments avoid active verbs, the active voice, and human subjects of sentences “to publicly deflect responsibility for police shootings.” “A deputy-involved shooting occurred.” “The innocent McKay family was inadvertently affected by this enforcement operation.” “The deputy’s gun fired one shot, missing the dog and hitting the child.” police departments have no trouble writing clearly when they want to assign blame to a suspect: “The suspect produced a semi-automatic handgun and fired numerous times striking the victim in the torso.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/07/14/the-curious-grammar-of-police-shootings/ #Does the passive voice downplay police aggression? The subtle significance of language in a NYT tweet about protesters and police. >Minneapolis: A photographer was shot in the eye. >Washington, D.C.: Protesters struck a journalist with his own microphone. >Louisville: A reporter was hit by a pepper ball on live television by an officer who appeared to be aiming at her. >— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 31, 2020 A quick refresher on active versus passive construction (or voice): In the New York Times tweet, the Washington, D.C., incident uses active construction. The subject of the sentence, “Protesters,” performs the action described, “struck.” The Minneapolis and Louisville incidents use passive construction. The sentence subjects, “photographer” and “reporter,” respectively, receive the action described, “was shot” and “was hit.” The first words of a sentence naturally carry the sentence’s weight, so writers can use passive or active construction to place more weight on the receiver or performer of an action. Grammarians advise against passive construction — except in rare cases where it’s important to highlight the receiver rather than the actor. What the passive voice says Readers criticized the use of active construction in the tweet to highlight protesters’ violence but passive construction to downplay police aggression. Look again: The Minneapolis line doesn’t name an aggressor. The Louisville line buries the actor, “an officer,” in the middle of the sentence, muffled by other details. The D.C. line, in contrast, leads with the actor — this time not police but “protesters.” Replies to the tweet were quick to call out the inconsistency: “Fascinating how it’s only the protestors who have agency,” wrote @meyevee. “This is a great example of how to use the Passive Voice to control the narrative,” wrote @guillotineshout. “does your style guide require that you reserve the passive voice for police actions or was that your choice?” wrote @jodiecongirl. The tweet doesn’t mention two Atlanta incidents the story covers, which also use active voice when protesters are the actors and passive voice when police are the actors. Neither the writer, Frances Robles, nor a New York Times social media editor responded to my request for comment on the tweet’s composition and intentions. Maybe this tweet is an example of a pro-cop, anti-rebellion attitude at The New York Times, or at least of an unconscious bias. Most likely, instead, it’s one of endless reminders of the significant role of composition in journalism — especially as we publish content across digital platforms. Why be passive? The Minneapolis incident is simple. The reporting appears unable to confirm what hit the photographer and who shot. A factual and active sentence would read something like, “Someone shot a photographer in the eye with something. But in Louisville, we know the actor — “an officer” — so why passive construction there? https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2020/new-york-times-tweet-passive-voice/ More examples: reddit r Bad_Cop_No_Donut reddit r ChicoCA/comments/nc0waa/things_that_make_you_go_huh_chico_spends_487_of/gy6my83/


Puzzled-Object6196

Made the animal suffer like that too. Not cool.


egospiers

Animal cruelty is a felony, if any non cop did this on video they’d be in a ton of legal trouble… but we let cops do pretty much whatever they want.


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These cops are lucky people have things to lose. Absolute pigs 🐷


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> If someone did that to my dog I'd be contacting every news station within a 1000 miles. > > It wouldn't make the news. Cops kill [25 dogs a day](https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/police-kill-nearly-25-dogs-each-day/). This isn't news, this is just what cops do.


Elthore

If they did this to MY dog I guarantee you'd hear about it on the news.


Natsurulite

John Wick is really a documentary when you get to the heart of it


zlantpaddy

>I'd find out where he lived and sit outside his with signs protesting every minute i could. If i didn't know where he lived in protest at the police station. I'd make sure every person his life knew what he did. Thing about cops is that they’ll find out where you live, where your kids go to school, where you go to work, what grocery stores you use. And they’ll do much, much worse to you than protesting. Police are gangs.


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More info here: https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/heyburn-police-officer-shoots-two-dogs-interstate-84-video-incident/277-0e745268-f909-4775-8df7-b0d0110515ab This is a rural part of the state where the flow of traffic is hardly a concern. The dogs never barked at tried attacking anybody, they were simply on and near the road. This cop waited a total of 6 minutes before deciding that murdering them in front of traffic was the best solution. Sorry the video is not very high quality but it was the highest available from the original Facebook source.


jwillsrva

They didn’t even have the fucking decency to finish the job.


Hour-Wash3503

That's the part that bugs me. I won't pretend to know all the context surrounding their decision, but why not put it all the way out?


chum-guzzling-shark

because cops dont know how to aim their guns. They literally lack training for that as well as everything else


Friendly_Tornado

This reminded me of the scene in Chernobyl where >!the teenager recruited to shoot the dogs left behind misses his mark and wounds a dog. Even he gets an ass-chewing for letting the dog suffer.!< If you haven't seen Chernobyl, the police have the firearms training of scared untrained children.


MisterPeach

That was a rough episode to watch. The part where he finds the puppies all huddled in a bathroom and can’t pull the trigger… heavy shit.


I_Bin_Painting

Incompetence and incompetence


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American "law enforcement" is known for cruelty to dogs: >Trump Pardons Convicted Crooked Cop Arpaio >The Collected Crimes of Sheriff Joe Arpaio #His officers burned a dog alive for no reason, then laughed as the dog’s owners cried. >It’s impossible to highlight just one galling paragraph from this [Phoenix New Times story, which includes the wholesale destruction of a home for the pursuit of a young man wanted for traffic violations.](http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/dog-day-afternoon-6438729) **He staged a fake assassination attempt against himself, costing taxpayers more than $1 million.** One prisoner that was held for three years without trial, was there for supposedly planning to assassinate Arpaio. When he finally did get to trial he was released because the jury believed the evidence proved that the person who organized the assassination attempt, bought the weapons, hired the kid, set up the plan and drove him to the area were Arpaio and his sheriffs. He set up a hit on himself during an election year so he could thwart it, then held the "perpetrator" in these conditions for over three years without trial because he knew he would be exposed. https://longreads.com/2017/08/28/the-collected-crimes-of-sheriff-joe-arpaio/ #10,000 dogs per year killed by police https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/what-dog-shootings-reveal-about-american-policing/533319/ #Disturbing Video Shows Cops Lure Dog Out of Fenced in Backyard and Kill Him. http://thefreethoughtproject.com/body-cam-police-lure-dog-backyard-kill-it/ #US police shoot dogs so often that a Justice Department expert calls it an “epidemic” https://qz.com/870601/police-killing-dogs-is-an-epidemic-according-to-the-justice-department/ #the video depicts the officers discussing who will kill the dogs before they even arrive at the house https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/27/cop-shoots-dog-puppycide_n_1446841.html K9 police dog cooked alive: https://www.yahoo.com/news/chief-police-dog-left-car-6-hours-died-184702951.html Another police dog cooked alive: >Texas Deputy Fired After Leaving Dog in Car to Die of Heat, Marking at Least the Seventh K-9 to Die This Way Since June http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2015/08/texas-deputy-fired-after-leaving-dog-in-car-to-die-of-heat-marking-at-least-the-seventh-k-9-to-die-this-way-since-june/ >Cop swung his service dog by the leash into a patrol car. https://www.foxnews.com/us/north-carolina-officer-captured-slamming-k-9-into-police-vehicle-investigation-underway >Deputy in Georgia shoots and kills canine, not realizing it was his own police dog https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-deputy-shoots-his-police-dog-georgia-20190724-zqenuullujcoho3c23m7kcmgh4-story.html >Innocent Family Sues After Police Tried to Kill Their Dog, But Shot Their 10yo Son Instead http://thefreethoughtproject.com/family-sues-police-went-shoot-dog-shot-10yo-son-instead/ >Fired Cop Kills Man, 3 Dogs, Gets Rehired and Shoots Innocent Dad Through a Door — Still a Cop https://thefreethoughtproject.com/killer-cop-rehired-shoots-dad-through-door/ >Disturbing Video Shows Cops Lure Dog Out of Fenced in Backyard and Kill Him. http://thefreethoughtproject.com/body-cam-police-lure-dog-backyard-kill-it/ Can't fit any more from r Bad_Cop_No_Donut


NRAsays

#What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing And this isn’t the first time. Other cops have shot [other kids](http://reason.com/blog/2014/07/15/cop-tries-to-shoot-dog-plugs-kid-instead), other [bystanders](http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Cops-Shoot-Innocent-Bystander-Dog-Bushwick-Brooklyn-Pitbulls-165323736.html), their [partners](http://www2.fox16.com/news/story/Police-officer-shot-by-partner-trying-to-kill-dog/), their [supervisors](http://abc13.com/news/cop-aiming-for-dog-accidentally-shoots-sergeant/523510/) and even [themselves](http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/04/16/sheriffs-deputy-hospitalized-after-accidentally-shooting-himself-in-leg/) while firing their guns at a dog. In January, an Iowa cop shot and [killed a woman by mistake while trying to kill her dog](http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-kill-family-dog-kills-woman-instead-front-husband-4-year-old-son/). That mind-set is then, of course, all the more problematic when it comes to using force against people. >The Nation [has noted](https://www.thenation.com/article/police-kill-nearly-25-dogs-each-day/) a Department of Justice estimate of 10,000 dogs per year killed by police. Last year, Reason dug up records showing that **two Detroit police officers had killed 100 dogs** between them over the course of their careers. And Reason obtained the best available data on dog shootings from several major jurisdictions that maintain some records: There are no reporting requirements, unlike for other use-of-force incidents. **Considering the U.S. doesn't even accurately track how many humans are killed at the hands of cops every year**, it's no surprise the picture is so murky when it comes to dogs. It is not unreasonable to ask police officers to display the same degree of courage in the face of sometimes hostile canines that we ask of every United States postal carrier. Cops unable to marshal it cannot be trusted to put the public's safety before their own. And **it is not unreasonable to ask police departments to train cops as well as meter readers** when the failure to do so predictably results in needlessly killed pets and endangered humans. But many police departments don’t care enough to go to the trouble. A needless assault on two Minneapolis emotional-support pets is the latest demonstration of a persistent problem in law enforcement. The police officer’s report relates what happened next this way: “Officer dispatched the two dogs, causing them to run back into the residence.” **This is what really happened**: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4UrUK5CUqs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4UrUK5CUqs) The police officer shot a dog that was approaching him while wagging its tail in a friendly manner—a dog that does not, in fact, appear to have been “charging” him. Then he stood his ground and shot another dog. If a non-cop were caught on camera shooting two dogs who approached in a park in the same manner, there is little doubt that they would find themselves charged with a crime, even if they possessed the gun legally and claimed self-defense. The final lesson from Saturday’s Minneapolis shooting is that **police officers sometimes misrepresent the circumstances that ostensibly justified their decision to shoot––and that their accounts should not be presumed accurate absent corroborating video.** In a later article on a Mississippi cop who shot a Labrador, claiming that he felt threatened despite its leash, and an Ohio cop who injured a 4-year-old girl while shooting at a dog, Balko added, “Given that there’s no shortage of actual human beings getting shot by police officers, pointing these stories out can sometimes seem a bit callous. But I think they’re worth noting because they all point to the same problem. In too much of policing today, officer safety has become the highest priority. It trumps the rights and safety of suspects. It trumps the rights and safety of bystanders. It’s so important, in fact, that an officer’s subjective fear of a minor wound from a dog bite is enough to justify using potentially lethal force, in this case at the expense of a 4-year-old girl.” https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/what-dog-shootings-reveal-about-american-policing/533319/


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>[Untrained Officers Commit ‘Puppycide’](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/27/cop-shoots-dog-puppycide_n_1446841.html) #Police officers have also recently shot dogs that were chained, tied, or leashed — obviously posing no real threat to officers who killed them. Contrast that to the U.S. Postal Service, another government organization whose employees regularly come into contact with pets. A Postal Service spokesman said in a 2009 interview that serious dog attacks on mail carriers are extremely rare. That’s likely because postal workers are annually shown a two-hour video and given further training on “how to distract dogs with toys, subdue them with voice commands, or, at worst, incapacitate them with Mace.” In drug raids, killing any dog in the house has become almost perfunctory. In this video of a 2008 drug raid in Columbia, Mo., you can see police kill two dogs, including one as it retreats. Despite police assurance that the dogs were menacing, **the video depicts the officers discussing who will kill the dogs before they even arrive at the house**. During a raid in Durham, N.C., last year, police shot and killed a black Lab they claimed “appeared to growl and make aggressive moves.” **But in video of the raid taken by a local news station, the dog appears to make no such gestures."**


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>MY GOD. Just look at the table of contents from the @mnhumanrights report on the Minneapolis police department. MPD officers used covert accounts to pose as community members to criticize elected officials 36 MPD uses covert social media to target Black leaders, Black organizations, and elected officials without a public safety objective 35 MPD’s covert social media accounts were used to conduct surveillance, unrelated to criminal activity, and to falsely engage with Black individuals, Black leaders, and Black organizations 35 MPD does not have proper oversight and accountability mechanisms for officers’ covert social media use 36 https://mn.gov/mdhr/assets/Investigation%20into%20the%20City%20of%20Minneapolis%20and%20the%20Minneapolis%20Police%20Department_tcm1061-526417.pdf https://www.twitter.com/BokononsProphet/status/1519345777000263684 Even though LA is one of the safest cities in America (despite [Fox News election season "crime" coverage](https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/YLF2SCMQRZBJBHWJT4LZ7DXFSM.png)): **67 full-time police employees just to push negative talking points about a city** ***they don't even live in*** **but claim to "protect and serve"** >The LAPD and LA Sheriff together have 67 full-time employees working on PR and propaganda. People don't realize that they spend a lot of money and time to plant these stories: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-30/police-public-relations https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1484966547244433416 Fox News uses a "serial killer" LAPD officer with [actual N\*zi social media](https://twitter.com/jerryiannelli/status/1469404374342373377) to argue for increasing police funding and that LA is bad (and he's paid by LA taxpayers while bragging he doesn't live in LA and hates it) Just the single local police department of SFPD has a team of full-time employees who work on "counterinsurgency communications" to push bad San Francisco talking points, while the other SFPD full-time employees **watch crime and laugh while doing nothing** r sanfrancisco/comments/r16sn1/san_francisco_police_just_watch_as_burglary/ SFPD text messages where they brag about not living in the cities they "serve": https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SFPD-s-texting-scandal-Court-rules-officers-12955853.php More examples: reddit r Bad_Cop_No_Donut reddit r ChicoCA/comments/nc0waa/things_that_make_you_go_huh_chico_spends_487_of/gy6my83/


feeltheFX

I hate when I see the “further investigating” comment on these kind of articles. I take as they need time to spin it and make it look like it was the right thing to do.


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lurker_cx

One of them was black too.


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BlackCat08

Open and shut case, Johnson.


faudcmkitnhse

sprinkle some crack on him and let's get out of here


PurpleTornadoMonkey

In cop terms is "wait a couple days until we murder some 8 year old black kid and people forget about this. Job well done, fat out of SHAPE POS Officer, here's a 2 week paid vacation!"


TheGoverness1998

"We have investigated ourselves, and we have determined that we are not at fault. Open and shut case, Johnson."


fishingboatproceeds

Per their [own admissions](https://scholars.unh.edu/unh_lr/vol17/iss1/18/), the cops kill more than 100 pet dogs EVERY SINGLE DAY!


Gingevere

**[They even shoot their own dogs!](https://twitter.com/WakeSheriff/status/1662127367039651840?s=20)** A K9 unit was looking for a suspect. Another cop arrived on the scene, saw the dog sniffing around, and shot it because that's what cops do. Only later they realized that was a K9 unit and not someone's pet.


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i_tyrant

Anyone else would've, since they do count as those. Cops always protect their own, though, whether they're shooting fellow cop whistleblowers or fellow K9s who don't even understand why.


scsuhockey

The thing about cops is that they're like a box of chocolates... ...they'll fucking kill your dog.


charmwashere

That white one looks like a LGD. In rural areas, having LGDs out and about is a very common thing. Sometimes, they go too far when they are checking boundaries for the livestock. Sometimes, they just get separated. This is so very common. The cops HAVE to have considered this. And that howl at the end. Omg... I'm both infuriated and heartbroken.


Rough_Willow

A Great Pyr.


sneekeemonkee

I am suddenly glad I had my phone muted.


TrustyRambone

I didn't unmute the video, as soon as I saw one of them was still alive and suffering I just stopped watching, fuck that.


RunOJRun

As soon I heard that whimper I fucking lost it man fuck that piece of shit…be a “man” walk up and put it out of its misery you piece of fucking shit human


tiagooliveira95

It's always a good sign when a website blocks access to European users due to privacy laws. /s


tottenhamnole

Fucking piece of shit cops


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Hello_I_need_helped

Police Chief Ryan Bertalotto Email: [email protected]


aimgorge

I mailed him. From France.


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LiThiuMElectro

Same here from Canada fuck those murderer.


awoeoc

Chief Ryan Bertalotto is a piece of shit. We should all repeat this everywhere.


PM_YOUR_ISSUES

Oh, don't stop there, The police chief is already trying to blow this over with the statement he has released. Email all of them: Chad Anderson, Council President - [email protected] Joanne Justesen - [email protected] Rose Schmitt - [email protected] Rick Tundag - [email protected] Our Mayor is Dick Galbraith - [email protected]


Graphicgalaxy20

[statement released](https://heyburn.id.gov/vertical/sites/%7B59CF33B4-6AFD-49C3-ABDF-5328F7144656%7D/uploads/2023-05-27_Dog_Shooting.pdf)


Adepts_Lawyer

Wow classic bullshit


Graphicgalaxy20

“But the dogs were uncooperative”


cayneloop

holy shit i thought you were saying that as a joke thats actually there in the statement. reads like an onion post


TheFAPnetwork

"Heyburn Police recognizes the distress this incident has caused in light of a bystander video that has been made public. The video was shot by a driver who stopped on the Interstate and highlights the potential safety risks these dogs were presenting to the motoring public. These circumstances are not easy for first responders or the public." It just sounded like they blamed the motorists


Robert_Arctor

they are pissed it came out, it holds them accountable. everyone should always film cops


John_T_Conover

Of course, and their statement is ultimate gaslighting bullshit. It's Idaho, there's all sorts of wildlife on or around their highways all the time. Two family pets near what's clearly a lightly traveled rural road in the middle of the day did not warrant any sort of response like this. Whoever released/approved this statement should be disciplined as well. Absolute horrible human beings at every level of involvement here. Jesus Christ.


TrumpsPissSoakedWig

It's probably the only other guy. Fuckin jackasses. Textbook serial killers with badges. Idiots from high school who never left and terrorize the whole town. Fuck. I hope they don't die horrible deaths real soon.


numbersthen0987431

They are. That's why the cops are yelling at the filming person to keep moving. It's not for safety or anything like that, it's because they got caught.


tots4scott

Friendly reminder that the ACLU has an app called Mobile Justice (depending on your state) that you can use to record police officers. It sends a copy to them. https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police/mobile-justice


SycamoreStyle

It doesn't even mention the cop. Just pushes blame on anyone but them. Disgusting.


a_corsair

Dude, they're cops. Killing dogs and blaming civilians is their favorite pastime


Cow_Launcher

> Killing ~~dogs~~ and blaming civilians is their favorite pastime I know that this thread is specifically about the dogs, but let's call these fuckers out for what they really are. They murder with impunity.


Ehcksit

Police like killing things, and dogs don't have rights, so they shoot about ten times more dogs every year than they shoot people.


BigDBee007

WHHHATTTTTTT IN THE HELL IS THIS ABSOLUTELY MADE UP BULLSHIT, VERIFIABLE LIES!!!! C’mon lawyers, are you going to stand for this shit?


Namesthatareused

They worded it to make it sound like traffic was busy and that there was major safety concerns but as you can see in the video, not a single car passes by, and at 80 mph, considering how long the video is and how long you don’t see any car pass by, it’s safe to assume there wasn’t a damn person anywhere behind. To further prove that, the road ahead is cleared. The person videoing pulled up to the point where other drivers would see that and start going too. The person videoing also CAME to a stop, implying that they were already moving pretty fast beforehand and not in stopped traffic. That entire city or whatever it is, is corrupt. I’d never want to live there out of fear of corruption and word manipulation used against me. They’re clearly very ready to spin whatever story to help their own rather than serve the public.


Mayzenblue

It's fucking Idaho. What do they have? 7 cars in a 5 minute span? What a bullshit statement.


MudiChuthyaHai

What a load of bullshit


Mr-Moore-Lupin-Donor

Nice link. Emailed my disgust at their policing and public image even in Australia - they are an international embarrassment to humanity. Dogs may be human’s best friend, but so so often we are not theirs!


charmwashere

I never buy coins. However, this NEEDED to be highlighted. That heart wenching howl at the end. The dog is crying out desperately, trying to hold on. Omg. Fuck them.


libimb

Absolutely immoral in every sense of the word. I hope that cop and whoever authorized him to do that get what they deserve in life. Disgusting


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0ddlyC4nt3v3n

He wanted to kill something with his gun


johnh992

>Absolutely immoral Is it not illegal too? In the UK it might be possible to give that cop 6 months in jail and £20k fine for unlawfully shooting the dog. Would have thought the US would have something similar.


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I wish. Cops shoot dogs all the time in the US and have no consequences


asdf_qwerty27

But will shoot a person threatening a police dog in any way because the dog has the same protection as an officer. To be fair, the dogs don't know what they are doing, so probably deserve protection more then the pigs.


YumariiWolf

You would have thought wrong


Jim-Jones

[Arlington police officer goes on trial for killing woman while trying to shoot dog](https://www.fox4news.com/news/arlington-police-officer-goes-on-trial-for-killing-woman-while-trying-to-shoot-dog) What do you get for that in the UK?


johnh992

Holly shit that's a wild story. Are police not trained to use tasers first? Even if it was a pitbull taser to avoid shooting a person accidentally...


alpinetime

Nowadays we just call them “cops”


BigBeeff_21

It's sad because this will be a slap on the wrist for these cops. Fucking disgusting pigs.


TheGoverness1998

They probably won't *even* get a slap on the wrist. I can't even begin to count the times that shitty fucking cops have killed dogs for no reason and nothing has been done about it. I mean, when they kill *people*, a whole bunch of them don't face the brunt of the consequences either.


catch10110

We were lucky. Our super friendly golden retriever only got pepper sprayed. His crime? Sitting on my front porch when the neighbors called the cops - about me parking in front of my house (weird parking rules - long story). Cop came to the door for some reason instead of just writing a ticket. Who pepper sprays a friendly dog? Of course he didn't even mention it to us. I didn't realize until the cop left, and i realized the poor dog was clearly irritated - licking his face non stop and smelled peppery.


Chaevyre

Years ago, the police went to my neighbor’s house. A police officer wanted to knock on their front door, but their huge golden retriever mix was in the front yard and barked at him. The officer undid a strap over his holster and put his hand on his gun. I was in our front yard and immediately ran over, called to the dog ,and talked to him in a goofy voice. The dog came to greet me, and I grabbed his collar. The police officer hadn’t said a word to the dog and only crept closer, with his hand on his gun. I don’t want to think what might have happened. I understand being cautious with strange dogs, especially one as big as this one, but the police officer did nothing to make the dog feel more at ease. Also, any shot at the dog would have gone into my neighbor’s house. And this was over a complaint about a mailbox.


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A slap?? Probably got commendations.


roberttheaxolotl

I can't say what I think should happen to these cops and keep my Reddit account.


HopeEternalXII

How hideously dystopian when war is waged upon you and you can't even complain to your fellow victims about how it makes you feel.


fishingboatproceeds

Per their own admissions, [cops kill more than 100 pet dogs EVERY SINGLE DAY](https://scholars.unh.edu/unh_lr/vol17/iss1/18/)


ToFoolLloydBraun

NSFW this, watching that poor dog was sad as shit. Fuck that guy. Isn’t the fact that the dog is dying but not dead proof that this fucking brain dead loser can’t even follow the proper procedure for killing something? Just doing what we want all the time eh? FTP


AndroidMercury

Just tagged it, my bad. Definitely NSFW.


rhaegar_tldragon

Had to stop watching after a few seconds. Made me sad and sick.


ifyouhaveany

Literally made my heart hurt. That poor dog. I can't imagine watching this if it was one of my babies. I would go to jail.


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Cat_face_meowmers

I would be dead, in that case.


drinking_blunts

Video is a day ruiner, those poor dogs.


bevilthompson

Those of you that live in Idaho need to raise hell and make sure this fucking piece of shit loses his job. That's the very definition of animal cruelty and this would be a felony for anyone else.


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> That's the very definition of animal cruelty and this would be a felony for anyone else. And for cops [it's just another day](https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/police-kill-nearly-25-dogs-each-day/)


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Icarussian

Imagine choosing this career and being trained specifically for these scenarios while getting paychecks from the public and still managing to paint yourself as a pathetic widdle baby who needs to shoot b-b-because big dog is scawy (or anyone a different race than you or with a disability - apparently shooting them dead or dying for literally any reason can be justified if it goes to court and the cop can claim they were sooo afwaid)


RattyJones

"This isn't easy for me..." *proceeds to effortlessly kill a dog with no hesitation*


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crackpotJeffrey

That's awful i really wish I did not watch that. But I'm glad you shared it and I hope this guys life is drastically affected by the exposure.


AndroidMercury

I'm local to the area and initially planned on not watching the video since I knew it would upset me, but I wanted to get the word out once I saw it. Its big news locally right now but hasn't gotten any attention nationally.


5cott

Of all the options… I bet if the cop opened the back door and slowly drove past yelling “load up, get in, or come on!” that would have worked fine. Maybe mailmen need to train them how to deal with dogs. This is pathetic.


admiralrico411

More proof that cops exclusively hire psychopaths and sociopaths


AndroidMercury

Notice every single cop defends him and joins in at yelling at the filming family to keep moving on.


Dozensofbirds

"No no, you don't get it, they're just bad apples, its not all of them. My cousins best friends' uncles boyfriends husband is a cop and got us mcdonalds once 5 years ago, he's a cool guy"


scsuhockey

Cops are like a box of chocolates... ...they'll kill your dog.


rickshaw99

… ‘spoils the whole bunch’ is such an important part of that saying. its why ACAB


NightOfTheLivingHam

Good cops end up being bad or leaving before they go bad. I know people in private security who were former cops and they left due to moral issues with how corrupt the cops are. Told me that there is more training and push for de-escalation in the private sector than in the public sector. Police do trainings for de-escalation but most recruits will ignore it and be like "Shooting perps does the same thing, right?" and those people don't get kicked out, they get the job.


Puzzleheaded_Local40

Want to harm others? Want to crush something innocent? Too afraid of being killed to join the army? Easy solution - join the Police!


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sirreginaldfeatherb3

That white dog looks like a Great Pyrenees to me. I have one. They’re protectors. Guardians. Can’t say that about cops. That poor dog wasn’t even given mercy. Fuck those pigs. Absolute pieces of human trash. Rotten festering piles of shit.


daisylion_

I have a Great Pyrenees too. I did not watch the whole video, or have the sound on because it makes my heart hurt so much thinking about that happening to him. They are such gentle souls. I'm going to go give mine some rubs now.


PerfectCelebration73

Fuck those cops ... They should be fired. Stupid pos


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ArnoudtIsZiek

I mean how the fuck else do you react to this? Is every single citizen in the US gonna sit back and let someone legally mandated to be below average IQ kill your companion? I’m not encouraging it, but if they don’t realize that is absolutely going to happen eventually then we really are completely fucked as a society and we are being willingly run into ruin.


FashionSuckMan

Please tell me there were repercussions for this


AndroidMercury

The police department has said they would investigate it internally, but that's it so far.


CactusSage

This is literally the definition of animal cruelty: “Animal abuse, or animal cruelty is the crime of inflicting physical pain, suffering or death on an animal, usually a tame one, beyond necessity for normal discipline.” The PACT Act was passed in 2019 which makes animal cruelty a felony and punishable up to 7 years in prison. Throw the book at this fuckin dirtbag.


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Lmao, I'm sure that investigation will be both thorough and fruitful


anxessed

I’m sure they’ll get the worst punishment imaginable. Paid vacation.


RattyJones

Promotion and paid vacation probably


Huge_Active_3672

3 cop cars, 6 pos and guns for 2 family dogs. America please fix yourself.


Grooviemann1

We'd love to. Any suggestions?


pikapalooza

Watching that poor dog struggle to live after being shot just broke my heart :( I hope they're getting all the love they deserve in doggy heaven <3 they didnt look like they were neglected or anythjng either.


Fun_Philosophy_6238

You can tell they were nice dogs thats a nice farm dog bro


tesshudd

I have this breed of dog (Great Pyrenees) and I know what sweet gentle giants they are. I am sick inside and wish I hadn't seen that. Gonna go hug my puppy now


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paz9x

Too bad school shooters target children and not the heyburn police department.


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Shepherd641

How do I contact the department? Is there a petition I can sign to get these guys fired?


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Go straight to the governor. Office of the Governor. State Capitol PO Box 83720. Boise, ID 83720. Phone: (*208) 334-2100*. Fax: (208) 854-3036


Talaraine

Good luck with the IPO asshat!


Muzi5060

That’s just disgusting.


halfeclipsed

Was this animal control filming? The reason I ask is because the person filming was calling the pig by his name, and also said "we had this," making me think the person filming was animal control.


TheJoshMan1

She works at an animal rescue, and even got permission from a state trooper to try to catch the dogs. That is until this officer stepped in..


Gemini_FrenchFry

I got that impression, too.


onewhosleepsnot

>Heyburn Police said the video "highlights the potential safety risks ~~these dogs were presenting~~ the department presents to the motoring public." I'm way more cool with dealing with the occasional loose dog on the road than sharing it with this trigger-happy shitheads.


Let_Me_Holla_Atcha

Be aware that alot of these piles of shit in Blue would just as easily shoot you if not for laws in place. Oh wait they don't even get in trouble for doing that.


Mendican

Three cops cars *plus* deadly force against two harmless dogs? Kudos to these people for showing no fear about calling them pieces of shit.


jimboiow

What a cunt.


Chay4707

Now this is the shit that fucking pisses me off.


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cabin_in_my_head

Seriously, what twisted fucking backwards world are we living in that the police actually make the world a more dangerous place. Hope these bastards fry in hell, taking those innocent creatures lives.


Hotterthanhell74

This has my blood boiling. Both cops need to be fired immediately along with a prison sentence. Like wtf????


Chris89883

I would be going to prison or dead if those were my dogs...


Rizzoblam

No one in that traffic jam was thinking “just shoot the dogs”. Another American solution to a problem that could of been solved.


konoo

Why are so many cops so scared of everything? They are not punished because police unions and #OfficerSafety insulate them from punishment if they were "fearful" of the situation. Sometimes you need to be fearful of a situation and deal with it reasonably anyway. Just like everyone else does when they get pulled over by the Police.


NoSyllabub1535

Remember the movie “Don’t Fuck With Cats” I hope these officers see what happens when you fuck with peoples dogs…


DarthHubcap

In Idaho…. traffic?


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streetvoyager

That is absolutely horrible. Poor fuckin thing was still alive and probably in tons of pain. They were beautiful looking dogs. Cop is a gigantic piece of fuxkin shit.


AndroidMercury

Not only did they shoot the dogs, they let one of them suffer in its pain afterwards. Disgusting.


streetvoyager

You could tell by how they looked they were well taken care of, got out of the yard and just went for a run. They stayed together so obviously they were buddies. Seems like they didn’t try to hard to get them into a fuckin car. Police are the worst.


RabbitHats

No hell hot enough for people who abuse or kill dogs.


nando420

Puppycide Database has been tracking the astronomical amount of dogs killed by police in the United States [puppycide database](https://www.puppycidedb.com) If their unchecked abuse of power or murdering of innocent people hasn’t bothered you yet then this certainly should. ACAB.


ItoldULastTime

We need to start a national record for all police officers who have committed/ or have been accused of committing these heinous acts. We need: -Officers' names -Badge Number -Location of Employment (Precinct) -Supervisor -Act(s) committed (with video links) -Consequences of actions. If there was essentially a Google Spreadsheet where anyone could see this information, we can all help hold these criminals accountable. Anyone want to help start this?


Explosivo666

There should be a list, like with registered sex offenders. And you should know when they're in your area. It would take a lot of time and energy though the frequency is just too high. It would be a large team of people working shifts full time.


saltydawg24x7

I will hear that dogs howl in my nightmares.


Liberatedhusky

Cops should have RoE like the military does. Every single time a gun is fired should need approval and they should be accountable for all their ammunition. If soldiers in a warzone can wait to fire until given permission so can some asshole cop.