Court Rules Police Officers Can Legally Execute Your Dog if It Does Anything But Sit Silently

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The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit concluded Monday that police officers are justified in killing citizens pets; even if those animals are not attacking or attempting to attack them.

Judges MOORE and CLAY (Circuit Judges), and HOOD (District Judge) heard an appeal from the plaintiffs Mark and Cheryl Brown, of Battle Creek, Michigan.

The Browns filed a lawsuit against the BATTLE CREEK Police Department; the City of Battle Creek, and police officers Jeffrey Case, Christof Klein, and Damon Young; for the death of their beloved dogs at the hands of sadistic cops.

The incident occurred on April 17th, 2013, when police were attempting to execute a search warrant on the home where the Browns were living because a police informant reported another man, Vincent Jones was distributing heroin, cocaine, and marijuana from the residence.

Jones was apprehended before police arrived on the scene.

Mark Brown, who was not a suspect in the search; had gone home on his lunch break to let out his two pit bulls. After doing so, he locked the door and headed back to work when police arrived and detained him.

He told them he had a key, and that they didn’t need to destroy the front door to gain entry into the home. But destroy it they did.

The Browns dispute the claims by police that the dogs were barking.

Mark Brown even testified the smaller of the two dogs had “never barked a day in her life.” Officer Klein said the larger dog was barking and “lunged” at him, but later admitted the pet “had only moved a few inches.”

Despite there being no attack, Klein fired a round at the dog. Both dogs ran away from the officers to the basement, obviously fleeing in fear.

There, the two dogs were shot and killed by the officers who felt that they could not properly clear the room and effectively execute the search warrant on the home, explaining they “did not feel [the officers] could safely clear the basement with those dogs down there.”

Going further, the officers stated the “basement was loaded.

You’ve gotta look under beds, you’ve gotta do everything, and [the dogs] basically prevented us from doing that, and they were protecting that basement.” Klein testified the smaller pit bull was “just standing there” when it was shot and killed.

In spite of these sadistic admissions, the appellate court ruled in favor of the officers; the police department, and the other defendants. They agreed with the lower court ruling that the police officers were covered under “doctrine of qualified immunity”; and were therefore not liable for compensating the plaintiffs in the case.

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The precedent has now been set. Cops can legally kill your dogs for the sole act of being a dog. If your dog moves, it is dead, if he barks, it is dead. If your dog does anything but sit silently in the other room, it is dead.

However, as the above case illustrates, even if they are silent in the other room, police can still kill them; just to make their search for arbitrary substances deemed illegal by the state — that much easier.



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701 thoughts on “Court Rules Police Officers Can Legally Execute Your Dog if It Does Anything But Sit Silently”

  9. Blake Klomfas

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    Sadistic Cops? Wow great journalism!

    Had a search warrant for a house where they expected a man was selling METH, HEROINE and other ILLEGAL NARCOTICS. The lady and man who were also living in the house, had “no idea” he was doing that. OK! Lol

    2 Huge Pitbulls who were not pets but security for illegal activity. The officers had no idea if the Pits would attack or not.

    A- before you blame the officer, REPORT THE REAL NEWS.

    B- If released im sure these dogs blood test would show traces of the illegal drugs.

    So before you blame the cops, who you’re gonna call for an emergency, realize the situation the owner who did illegal things put their dogs in.

    Stop being a flipping criminal and getting your dogs killed.

  13. Matt Waterworth

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    Can you imagine, being able to do anything to any person, animal, or piece of property, without facing any form of accountability, simply because you wore a badge and said, “I was afraid?” Why are cops allowed that kind of a lack of accountability? Because the Ruling Class likes it that way. They protect the cops from any form of punishment, by writing law saying such, and cops protect the Ruling Class from us. That’s how and why peaceful protests turn into riots when the riot police show up.

    ACCOUNTABILITY.

  14. Jenn Jeff Dowding-Smith

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    Agreed. I will kill every damn police officer involved if they ever kill one of my dogs. My big boy Samson scared the$#%&!@*out of one of the local police dogs. They were looking for someone and went by my backyard and you don’t see Samson until he’s on top of you. He barked and the handler and dog both jumped almost out their skins.

  15. Deborah Stubbs Piel

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    Does this justify their aggressive natures that a few have? Most cops are good but some are just criminals on the other side of the law! Look at how they killed a whistle blower cop one day before testifying on 8 crooked cops? They eat their young just to continue their criminal behavior behing a smoke screen. Sick.

  16. Ed Davisson

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    Then under equal protection under law, the same should go for their police dogs if any of us have committed no crime and they try to intimidate us with them.
    Absurdity should match absurdity.

  26. Sydney Acura

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    All these killn or animals n humans is out of control!! Its ok ppl come to your house rob, kill u or you dog and we have no rights proyecting ourselves! Wtf! These law makers r whack they should kill emself!

  30. Dan Killion

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    Its time to hold the garbage hiding behind Authority of a badge accountable!!!!
    Keep lowering the standards for the profession and this is what you get..
    The whole system is a Broken Down dysfunctional disgrace filled with incompetence and corruption!!

  43. Carrie Drury

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    Just because it’s legal doesn’t mean all cops will do it, thankfully. I’ve been blessed to only run across dog-loving police officers in my life. Living in a small town with more pet dogs than people, I’ve met the two police officers here. While this town does have a drug problem, they understand what dogs do when there’s a strange around….bark. Our two have never hurt anyone. All you have to do is give them two minutes to meet you and they’re fine.

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