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Roommates who sued a Maryland county Monday claim police officers illegally entered their apartment without a warrant, detained them at gunpoint without justification and unnecessarily shot their pet dog, which was left paralyzed and ultimately euthanized.

The dog, a boxer mix named Hennessey, did not attack the three officers who entered the apartment before two of them shot the animal with their firearms and the third fired a stun gun at it, according to the federal lawsuit.

The lawsuit seeks at least $16 million in damages over the June 2, 2021 encounter, which started with Prince George's County police officers responding to a report of a dog bite at an apartment complex where the four plaintiffs lived. What happened next was captured on police body camera video and video from a plaintiff's cellphone.

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[–] [email protected] 157 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Someone shared in another thread that police officers in the U.S. kill something like 10,000 dogs a year. Psychopaths murder dogs. You don't become a cop unless you're a psychopath.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never, ever let a cop into your home if you have a dog. Cops are driven by fear and sadism.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never, ever let a cop into your home

they can come back with a warrant or not at all. the police are absolutely not here to help and nothing will be made better by police involvement.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Also don't open the door for police. I've seen numerous encounters where they'll block the door and refuse to let you close it. Once you try to close it or a gentle breeze comes by an pushes the door into their foot, they'll violently throw you to the ground, taze you, and then charge you with assaulting a police officer.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not true, I know I guy who got fired from the company I worked for a few years ago, so what did he do when he wasn't good at the job, he became a police officer.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you sure he wasn't a psychopath?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm sure, I played soccer with him and hung out with him a few times outside of work. Pretty sure I would have noticed if he was a psychopath. Believe it or not, not everybody is a psychopath, and psychology is more complex than the black and white labels people like to dole out in the comments section on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

If you're not qualified to diagnose someone as a psychopath, you are equally unqualified to determine that someone is not a psychopath, especially if you've only "hung out a few times."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Narrator: He was, in fact, a psychopath. His name was... NocturnalMorning. spooky music

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Not sure if that person was me, but reposting a recent comment I made to that effect anyhow. The estimate and the word "epidemic" both originate from a DOJ report of all things.

https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2018/jun/16/doj-police-shooting-family-dogs-has-become-epidemic/

I believe the DOJ report is linked somewhere in that article, if not I'll dig it up if requested.

Cops in this country kill so many dogs each year that a specialist at the Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) community-oriented program services office says it has become an “epidemic.” The DOJ estimates that around 25 to 30 dogs are killed by cops every day, with some numbers as high as 10,000 per year. The totals could, in fact, be higher, since most police agencies do not formally track officer-involved shootings involving animals.