CLASH of the TITANS

In Mythology, its men against kings, kings against gods and gods against the world. Does that sound like Racine?
For nearly 2 weeks, the Racine titans of law had been clashing over the police pet killing incident of 11-01-2014 involving Kurt Hanson and his pet Angel.

The Racine District Attorney’s Office had been sifting thru large amounts of information received from Racine citizens that conflicted with Racine Police findings and incident reports.

The clashing came to a head when a 2 hour surveillance video of the inncident was provided to the D.A.’s office by a Racine citizen.

The neighbor, traumatized by the event had been living in fear that the police would confiscate and destroy the video evidence of the incident.

During the twelve days before turning in the video, the neighbor/witness was never contacted by the Racine Police Department.

Which brings us to one of the Titans, Racine Police Chief Art Howell.

Shortly after the police pet killing incident, CBS news 58 ran the following story.

http://www.cbs58.com/story/27257880/racine-police-chief-addresses-dog-shot-during-stand-off

 Racine Police Chief addresses dog shot

Racine -The Chief of Police in Racine addressed the dog that was shot and killed during a stand off on Saturday.

CBS 58 obtained e-mails from the Chief to concerned citizens, upset over what happened that day.

The Chief said that he is saddened over the loss of a domestic pet that, more than likely, had no malice against anyone.

He added that during this standoff, the dog's owner threatened to use a body armor piercing crossbow to kill officers, and this subject threatened to use his dog as a weapon against officers as well. 

Chief Howell goes on to explain that after several hours of dialogue with crisis negotiators, the barricaded subject ultimately made good on his threat to introduce the dog into the active standoff and that after the dog was released, the dynamics of this encounter changed.

According to court documents, the owner of the dog and the man involved in the standoff is Kurt Hanson.

Hanson has a criminal history dating back to 1980.

He has a number of convictions involving disorderly conduct and resisting police.

His criminal complaint also details how police say he threatened them with weapons and the dog.

The Chief said that after hours of trying to negotiate through dialogue, his officers were forced to deal with the distraction and unpredictability of having the Hanson's dog moving through the scene of this active encounter at a critical time.

In that same e-mail, the Chief explained that in the event their review process exposes misconduct, or if they find that additional training could have resulted in a better outcome, they will take appropriate action as dictated by our findings.

In a separate e-mail the Chief was more specific and said the department will also review the existing SWAT protocol to determine how to best deal with future situations of this nature.

Racine police also planned on releasing 911 calls from the day of the stand off.

On Sunday, a small group met outside the police station to voice their anger over the dog being killed.

Here are the problems with Chief Art Howell’s following statements.

“In that same e-mail, the Chief explained that in the event their review process exposes misconduct, or if they find that additional training could have resulted in a better outcome, they will take appropriate action as dictated by our findings.

In a separate e-mail the Chief was more specific and said the department will also review the existing SWAT protocol to determine how to best deal with future situations of this nature.

Twelve days later, the Racine Police department still had not sent out investigators to seek additional evidence or take statements from witnesses.  MEANING............

There was not an active review process or internal investigation into police errors, acts or omissions until the D.A.’s office received a 2 hour evidence video of the incident.
And that is when one of the TITANS  $#!T  HIT THE FAN

                                   Resign now Art Howell