Police Officer Has Qualified Immunity After Fatally Shooting Dog
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A police officer who fatally shot a dog while responding to a mistaken report of a domestic disturbance can’t be sued by her owners, the Eighth Circuit affirmed Thursday.

Can’t get past the paywall, but there’s enough info to be outraged:

 

A police officer who fatally shot a dog while responding to a mistaken report of a domestic disturbance can’t be sued by her owners, the Eighth Circuit affirmed Thursday.

A neighbor of Brandee Buschmann and William Morrison called the Kansas City, Mo., police department to report noises which led him to believe that a domestic disturbance was occurring at their home. Officers John Beck and Jeffrey Lagud arrived to investigate, and Beck shot and killed the residents’ dog, a 14-year-old rescue named Sierra, shortly after Lagud knocked on the door. Upon investigating, the officers determined the neighbor’s reported noises had…

  • Doug HollandOP
    5•1 year ago

    Calling for violence will get you arrested, and actual violence against cops will get you killed.

    • @SkyezOpen
      6•1 year ago

      Correct. Things that will also get you killed include grabbing your wallet, sitting on the couch in your home, pulling up your pants, and sleeping.

      • @Followupquestion
        1•1 year ago

        Sleeping while being a baby in a crib gets you severe burns and other injuries from a flash-bang.

    • @elscallr
      1•1 year ago

      We have had 13 states independant 11 years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.

      – Thomas Jefferson, a letter to William Stephens Smith in 1787