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”

  6. Jim Covolo

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    I have a job that requires me to work at other peoples houses and yes most of the time they have a dog and in this recent job doing now there’s a German Shepard I thought was a generally mean dog but no. He barks when I pull up to the house which is common a strange truck but have been working there for a week now and he still barks like I’m a new visitor. The bark sounds mean because it’s loud and I’m used to my Male Beagle which hardly ever barks at anyone or anything. The point is that you can’t judge a dog always by first impression. I went to go buy a boat from a guy and he had this Labrador dog that was chained up and wow what a mean dog he was growling and ready to bite someone but not all dogs are like that.

  10. Karol Sarane

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    we nee to change this law!! these animal’s are innocent victim’s go after the bad guy’s all animals are innocent so why kill them stupid pig cop’s i hate cop’s more and more and yes that’s my right!! if they kille my dog i would cut off their arm’s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  13. Mike McNamara

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    This goes both ways, the police aren’t just walking into innocent peoples houses and assassinating their animals! But I have seen some horrible cases, police going to wrong addresses and killing dogs for no reason! Especially dogs like pit bulls or anything that looks aggressive! But on the flipside I have friends who are police officers in Chicago and they say in many crack houses and heroin houses they use pit bulls to guard them so soon as the officers kick the door and they are attacked by multiple dogs! I advice to everyone it’s not too often they go to the wrong house, just don’t do nothing wrong and don’t have the police at your home!! I really think this page should stick to talking about dogs, there is a lot of hard feelings toward police officers right now, they have a really tough job, in fact many departments are hiring including Chicago, anyone thinking they can do a better job come on down

  22. Ed Davisson

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    I said “Absurdity should match absurdity.”.
    That said, the penalty should be the same for a cop who kills somebody’s dog for no reason, as somebody who kills a police dog for no reason.

  27. Louis Diggs Jr.

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    That’s not cool but then payback is a$#%&!@*$#%&!@*for tat, one hood turn deserves another . They shoot your dog when he is not being bad then you put their animals out of service as well. No good deed ever goes unpunished!
    The majority of cops would not be so flagrant bout such things but there is that small percentage that believes the badge gives them Carte blanch to do what they want. These are the ones that need to be dealt with in the harsh term.

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