DOG LIVES MATTER
Kurt Hanson and his dog "Angel ".
Compliments of the City of Racine Militarized Police.
On the average day, about
25 dogs are shot by law enforcement in the USA.
In many of these shootings, cops kill dogs because of poor training. But some of these dog killing cops are just plain THUGS.
There are no natural instincts in mankind that
prompts humans to shoot dogs. Dogs are man’s best friend? RIGHT ?
Shooting
dogs is not a normal knee jerk reaction. We at RCC refer to most of these cop shooting “instincts”
as aggression and/or cowardice.
Who wants a cop that is an asshole, or a
coward? Nobody I know.
Wearing a badge doesn’t excuse derelict and egregious
conduct. Cops must be held under the same or higher standards of conduct by the District Attorney's office just as common citizens are investigated. Citizens are heavily scrutinized when they discharge a weapon or kill a dog in our county, but law enforcement gets a get out out jail free card.
Below is the past responses from the Racine County District Attorney'' office every time a dog is killed by law enforcement.
Federal Court rulings affirm the following:
Federal sister Court’s have already concluded that, “‘the use of deadly force against a household pet is reasonable only if the pet poses an [imminent] danger and the use of force is unavoidable.’” Robinson v. Pezzat, 818 F.3d 1, 7 (D.C. Cir. 2016) (quoting Viilo v. Eyre, 547 F.3d 707, 710 (7th Cir. 2008) (holding that the unreasonable killing of a companion dog constitutes a seizure under the Fourth Amendment). See also Mayfield v. Bethards, 826 F.3d 1252, 1256 (10th Cir. 2016) (holding that killing a dog constitutes a violation of the dog owner’s Fourth Amendment rights absent a warrant or some exception to the warrant requirement); Carroll v. Cty. of Monroe, 712 F.3d 649, 651 (2d Cir. 2013) (holding that the unreasonable killing of a companion animal constitutes an unconstitutional seizure of personal property under the Fourth Amendment); Hells Angels, 402 F.3d at 975−78 (holding that the killing of guard dogs was unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment where “the officers were not presented with exigent circumstances that necessitated killing the dogs”); Brown v. Muhlenberg Twp., 269 F.3d 205, 211 (3d Cir. 2001) (same); cf. Altman v. City of High Point, 330 F.3d 194, 204−05 (4th Cir. 2003) (holding that privately owned dogs were effects subject to the protections of the Fourth Amendment but officers’ actions of shooting and killing the dog were objectively reasonable).
In our own community of Racine County, we only
have to look at the November 1, 2014 incident where City of Racine Police arrived at a
calm scene regarding dog poop. A calm scene that due to poor investigative techniques and mistakes by RPD, was escalated into a militaized police incident, executing a friendly dog named Angel as it walked in its own front yard.
You may read more here:
http://justice4angel.blogspot.com/
And as in 2014, "the Gales of November Came Early" in late November of 2016 with another Racine County dog execution incident during an executed no knock search warrant. A two year old english bulldog dog named "Sugar" was executed in her own home for doing what dogs do. Joseph and Sara Harmon of the 2000 block of Kearney Ave stated the following:
"Police reportedly told the family that it is protocol to kill the dog during the search warrant, and that was all of the information the family was reportedly given" according to the Racine Journal Times.
We at RCC plan to file Wisconsin Public Records Request regarding the above incident and will keep our readers informed of our progress.
In Milwaukee County, their communities problems regarding cops killing dogs are even larger, to include ricocheting bullets that injure humans.
source:
We know of no animal more dangerous than humans, and that includes bad cops.
In our
research at RCC, no uniformed law enforcement officer in the United States while on duty has ever been
killed by a dog, that’s right –NONE.
By cows? Yes By
horses ? Yes
A few in law
enforcement have even succumbed to death from wasps, hornets and bee stings.
But none by dogs- that’s right- ZERO deaths attributed to dogs
NONE, ZILTCH, NADA !!!
So why do so many cops hate citizens dogs?
2014 Law Enforcement statistics:
Line of Duty Deaths: 146
On an average year, U.S. mail carriers report around 6,000 dog
bites a year. This number doesn’t include total yearly incidents of dog
contacts, which is in the millions of incidents per year. And yet, you don’t see post office employees
going postal and killing hundreds of dogs a year as law enforcement does.
We have theories here at RCC, the theories being that many cops kill dogs because the cops are either cowards, thugs or enforcers that kill dogs to punish the owners.
What's your theory?
In the meantime.......
Wisconsin should embrace mandatory training for law
enforcement regarding canine encounters and expand the use of “less than deadly
force” training and tools.
Both our community and law enforcement will benefit from such
training mandates.
