Killing of Mayor's 2 Dogs Justified, Pr. George's Finds
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Officers in Raid Threatened, Sheriff Says
The Prince George's County Sheriff's Office has concluded in an internal review that its deputies were justified when they shot and killed two dogs belonging to the mayor of Berwyn Heights during a July drug raid, Sheriff Michael Jackson said yesterday.
The sheriff said that one dog was engaging an officer and that the other was running toward a second officer at the time the black Labs were shot, but the ruling did not satisfy the mayor, who said the inquiry was incomplete and misleading.
Jackson released the results of the review in response to a scientific examination of the dogs' carcasses by a veterinarian with the Maryland Department of Agriculture at the request of Mayor Cheye Calvo. The necropsy concluded one dog was shot four times and the other twice, including once in the dog's back legs.
Calvo said the necropsy has bolstered his contention that neither dog was threatening law enforcement officers during the raid and that one dog was shot from behind as he fled into a back room.
A sheriff's department SWAT team and county police narcotics officers burst into the mayor's home July 29 after police intercepted a 32-pound package of marijuana addressed to Trinity Tomsic, Calvo's wife.
Police cleared Calvo and Tomsic of wrongdoing, saying they were victims of a drug smuggling scheme in which drug-filled packages addressed to unsuspecting recipients were intercepted by a FedEx deliveryman.
Calvo rejected Jackson's conclusions yesterday, saying sheriff's deputies have not interviewed him or his mother-in-law about their accounts of the incident. Both were home at the time of the raid. Their arms were bound behind their backs, and they were questioned about the package while the body of one dog lay nearby.
"The fact that they've done an internal review without contacting the victims of their raid, the people whose house they stormed through, shows they're not very interested in the actual facts," he said.
Read the rest of this story at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090402746.html
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- julesrs007
- 3 months ago
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Assholes...
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The mayor must consider himself a lucky guy! The trigger happy gung ho morons of the police force went out with the intention of killing something or somebody, sadly it was the labradors.
I have had labradors black and gold for over eighteen years and in all that time NOT ONE sign of aggression even after being tormented by three young children and a blue roan cocker spaniel and the only danger with her is that she could lick you to death
The dumb officers saw "black dogs" and in their thick minds assumed they were either Rotweillers or Dobermans and took random shots at them
God bless the freedom of democracy in the USA
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- themanwithadog
- 3 months ago
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The other article that I read said that the police basically knew before the raid that the people in that house were innocent, so there really wasn't any reason for a "raid" such as they conducted, nor any reason for killing labs, which basically everyone knows are very non-aggressive dogs, which is why they aren't used as attack dogs.
