http://www.kidk.com/news/local/11676076.html

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"A Teton County, Idaho family is outraged after they say a sheriff's deputy tried to murder their dog in their own front yard. The Barboza family has owned their dog Bobby for five years. A few days ago they say a Teton County Idaho Sheriff's Deputy knocked on their door demanding to see the dog. Leonel Barboza, Dog Owner: "He says, 'I'm here to put him down. I'm here to kill him.'" The officer told Leo Barboza there had been a complaint Bobby had bitten someone. Barboza: "I said, 'Do you have any proof or anything?' He says, 'I don't need any proof.'" So Leo got the dog while the deputy pulled out a rifle from his car. They walked a few feet from the Barboza's home where Leo's wife and his three year old son were inside. Leo and the officer tied the dog to a pole when the deputy fired three shots. The dog then collapsed. Leo's son heard the gunshots and opened the front door. Meanwhile... Barboza: "A bunch of kids just got off the bus and they were all on the street. All the kids were watching the officer shooting the dog. My heart was broken seeing an officer killing my dog." The deputy then got in his vehicle and drove away leaving the dog bleeding profusely from his head almost dead. Barboza: "I came back inside with my wife and hid. We were hugging each other crying about our dog because we were gonna miss him. He's been with us for five years." That night Leo's father-in-law, who witnessed the whole thing, had a nervous breakdown and had to be hospitalized. When the family returned home from the hospital a few days later, they were shocked to see their dog alive. Barboza: "My wife called me up and she's like, 'Hey, the dog's alive!' I was like, 'What are you serious?' I was happy my dog was alive." The Teton County Idaho Sheriff wouldn't say much about this case except that it's still under investigation. He also said there's been numerous complaints about the Barboza's dog. But when I checked court records, I could only find one complaint filed last year and that was dismissed. Nate Eaton, Channel 3 Eyewitness News: "Did your dog ever bite anybody?" Barboza: "Not to my knowledge. No." Eaton: "And this was the first time you'd ever heard of any complaint?" Barboza: "Yes, this is the first time. I still think about it. You know my kid thinks all the cops are bad because an officer came and shot his dog. Honestly when I think about it I get mad too and I don't trust that officer any more." The Barboza's took Bobby to the vet. He's now on medication to get the wounds taken care of. The holes in his head will be sewn up after Thanksgiving. The family has hired attorney Josh Garner. I spoke with him this evening and he says, "If the facts are as they appear, the deputies behavior is disgusting, troublesome, and appalling. The officer needs to be held responsible." Several sources say the officer is still on duty and still working in the county."

And the followup:

http://www.kidk.com/news/local/11730201.html

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"A Teton County sheriff's deputy is suspended and people across the country are outraged after an exclusive Channel 3 Eyewitness News investigation. Tuesday night we told you about a family who said deputy Joseph Gutierrez showed up at their door, demanded to see their dog Bobby, then shot him three times. Now Bobby's owners, the Barboza family, plans to take legal action against the Teton County Sheriff's Office after they say Deputy Joseph Gutierrez shot their dog three times and left him for dead. Josh Garner, Barboza's Attorney: "We intend on putting the county on notice that we are serious about this and that we intend on taking some action." This comes on the same night the Idaho Humane Society in Boise speaks out about the shooting. Dr. Joseph Rosenthal, Idaho Humane Society: "This is an act of cruelty and to find out that later the dog was discovered to still be alive and suffering it's just an example." Local residents are also talking about the story. Justin Frandsen says he was in the sheriff's office the night before the dog was shot and he heard deputies talking about the animal. Justin Frandsen: "They were joking and laughing about what weapons they wanted to shoot him with and how they were gonna shoot him. At the end of the conversation, they were almost feuding over who got to shoot the dog." Shocked by what he heard, Frandsen says he spoke up to the deputies. Frandsen: "You guys must feel like you're real big cops, real tough guys, to have to go out and basically assassinate somebody's house pet." Other residents think Gutierrez may have been justified in shooting the dog and the whole story isn't being reported. Nancy Nead: "I would bet that the deputy was either protecting himself because I have hard time believe that the deputy would just come and shoot the dog without a reason." We went to the sheriff's office and asked to talk with the sheriff and Deputy Gutierrez. They were not there. Channel 3 invites them to share their side of the story. We have learned the sheriff's office has had multiple death threats made against them. We don't support or approve of that. To support the Barboza family legally or financially, email their attorney Josh Garner at garnerlawoffice@gmail.com."

11/29/2007 11:38:55 AM

11/29/2007 11:40:08 AM

man what a douchebag cop

11/29/2007 11:41:22 AM

good.

try to shoot my dog... i dare ya.

11/29/2007 11:41:56 AM

why the hell did the guy go get his dog and take it outside?

but, the moral of the story:

You just can't trust a cop....I feel bad for the decent ones, but law enforcement is one major area where people's actions should be held to a higher moral standard, and subject to more scrutiny.

11/29/2007 12:05:30 PM

its only fair they should get fucked by profiling just like they do to everyone else.

11/29/2007 12:13:54 PM

Are you not outraged!

11/29/2007 3:37:34 PM

fuckin pig would met my .40

11/29/2007 3:50:57 PM

damn this shit pisses me off. that cop should be charged with at least animal cruelty

11/29/2007 3:52:56 PM

Reminds me of the RENO 911 episode where the guy tricked the cops into killing his neighbors dog

Probaly the funniest moment on that show that didn't involve Patton Oswald or Nick Swardson

11/29/2007 3:55:37 PM

The dude should have led the cop into a room with a TV and been like "My dog will be in shortly". Then he should have locked the door and played 2girls1cup on the TV.

11/29/2007 4:00:42 PM

that's terrible.

but if a cop comes to your house and wants you to bring him your dog so he can kill him, what would happen if you refused? I would have probably refused.

11/29/2007 4:03:11 PM

Probably Tazer

11/29/2007 4:05:26 PM

what a horribly-written article.


what kind of dog was it

11/29/2007 4:08:03 PM

the owner is a fucking moron for going to get the dog, you'd have to kill me to get to my dog, damn thing is family

11/29/2007 4:47:18 PM

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004032283_alleybarnes24m.html

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"The city of Seattle has agreed to pay $185,000 to a man who filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit against the police department after he was beaten, kicked and arrested by officers outside a Capitol Hill nightclub in 2005, according to court documents and an informed source. City Attorney Thomas Carr released the details of the settlement with Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes late Friday, after earlier refusing to do so. The case was scheduled for trial next week. The violent arrest of Alley-Barnes outside the War Room early April 13, 2005, sparked outrage among some in the African-American community and highlighted Chief Gil Kerlikowske's record of overturning discipline recommendations made by the department's civilian-run Office of Professional Accountability (OPA). The OPA recommended that two officers and a sergeant be disciplined after the incident, which started when a friend of Alley-Barnes' threw a piece of paper on the ground in front of the sergeant as the club was closing. The sergeant confronted the friend, and when Alley-Barnes started asking questions, other officers were called to the scene. Alley-Barnes, 29, was taken to the ground by at least four officers and repeatedly kicked and punched until he was bloodied. A patrol car dashboard camera captured audio, but not video, of the arrest. Alley-Barnes, an artist with no criminal record, can be heard on the tape pleading with officers to "please stop kicking me." Another voice can be heard saying: "That's way too much!" A photograph of Alley-Barnes taken in the jail shows him with blood running down his swollen face. An internal investigation later showed that an officer also rammed the handcuffed Alley-Barnes' face into a wall at the police precinct. Alley-Barnes was charged with assaulting an officer and interfering, but the case was dismissed because the city failed to turn over the video from the arrest. The civilian director of the OPA recommended that the two officers be disciplined for using excessive force and the sergeant for inadequate supervision. Instead, Kerlikowske — who later called the incident "horrible" — exonerated the officers, and the department missed a six-month deadline to impose discipline on then-Sgt. Gregory Sackman. While Kerlikowske has said that Sackman "had far more blame" than the others, he was promoted to lieutenant in June. The City Council has since passed an ordinance requiring the chief to justify in writing his reasons when he departs from OPA-recommended discipline. Alley-Barnes' attorney, Fred Diamondstone, declined to comment except to say that the "settlement figure is certainly an amount the city is not happy paying." In the settlement, the city does not concede any wrongdoing. Assistant City Attorney Sean Sheehan said that the $185,000 was less than the city had offered Alley-Barnes in failed settlement negotiations earlier. He also said they had asked for the confidentiality offer. "That shows you how proud they are of the outcome," he wrote in an e-mail. Diamondstone said Alley-Barnes had asked for the confidentiality agreement "because he would prefer the amount not be disclosed." He said Alley-Barnes was told the city would have to follow the state's public-disclosure laws, which require the release of publicly funded court settlements. Ted Buck, a lawyer contracted by the city to represent the officers, said the city's settlement included a confidentiality agreement, even though city lawyers knew it was unenforceable. Carr initially cited the clause as a reason not to release the information. Buck said attorneys were anxious to adopt a settlement that ended nearly two years of "brutal litigation." Carr, whom Gov. Christine Gregoire recently appointed to head a committee reviewing the Public Disclosure Act, said he signed off on the settlement even though it contained a provision that has resulted in a delay in the release of information he agrees is public. Carr on Thursday had refused to release the details, but did so late Friday after The Seattle Times filed a public disclosure request. "Sometimes we have to get off our high horse to get a deal done," he said."

12/4/2007 1:00:36 PM

wasn't there another story of the cops killing some people's dog?

besides, i bet this happens all the time. My friend's cousin is having three dogs put down (including a golden retriever puppy) because of a lunatic who lives beside him who's wife is terrified of dogs. He recorded a video of the guy playing with the puppy in the front yard and used it as evidence of the dog being viciously trained. He won because he knows the sheriff

12/4/2007 1:03:18 PM

Stuff like ^ and ^^ and the original post is why cops get shot.

Damn shame that stuff like this keeps happening.

Completely fucked up.

12/4/2007 2:04:56 PM

12/4/2007 2:13:24 PM

^^^

holy shit, if anyone complained about my golden puppy to the cops, they'd have to take my ass to jail for beating some ass

i bet someone will adopt a golden puppy - no reason to put down a purebred dog

anyone afraid of a golden puppy has got to have mental issues or is simply not worthy of life.

[Edited on December 4, 2007 at 2:16 PM. Reason : ]

12/4/2007 2:16:02 PM

no one touches my dog without my approval

no

one

12/4/2007 2:19:02 PM

^^^ that movie sucks imo

[Edited on December 4, 2007 at 2:19 PM. Reason : dsafdsafds]

12/4/2007 2:19:02 PM

I thought it was a good movie, balanced for the most part.

12/4/2007 2:26:11 PM

i didn't read either one of those articles

12/4/2007 4:00:39 PM

http://www.counterpunch.org/wilkerson03132007.html

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"The event was a presentation by Raymond Tanter, founder of the Iran Policy Committee and former member of the National Security Council under Ronald Reagan. Michigan's chapter of the Zionist organization, the American Movement for Israel (AMI), brought him to town on November 30, 2006 to whip up support for regime change in Iran. The "Islamo-fascist regime" must be overthrown, according to Tanter, before they acquire a nuclear weapon, and one option for stopping them would be nuking them first. Some of the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrators the US has supplied to Israel would be OK, with Israel doing the deed. A small group of folks showed up to protest. The room was packed, U of M cops were on hand, and the atmosphere was tense. Tanter fired up the crowd, especially when he declared that Israel will exist forever, triggering the longest and most boisterous of several rounds of cheering and applause from his supporters. But interruptions of dissent were not to be allowed, and the cops were there to make sure of it. One of the protesters, an Iranian woman, became the first target of the political repression in store for the night. At the behest of one of the AIM organizers, a U of M cop proceeded to remove her. The cop, maybe 6'6 or bigger, grabbed her arm, dragging her to the floor, where he applied pressure point control tactics (PPCT) as she screamed. PPCT is what's called a pain compliance technique, using the infliction of pain to force someone to do what you order. It's used against someone who poses a serious threat of physical harm; someone, say, who's in the cop's grip, clutching a knife and on the verge of stabbing a person. In this case, the cop inflicted pain to force compliance with his order to stand up, while he pinned her to the floor with his knee. She kept screaming. "Don't hurt her," called out the woman who'd been sitting in the next seat over, also an Iranian woman, a U of M Professor of Iranian History, in fact, and another dissenting voice at the event. One of the other protesters came to the first victim's aid and was hauled away, cuffed and arrested. A second protester came to the victim's aid and followed as she was hauled away. The AMI organizers were calling the shots. I heard a commotion in the hall and stepped out of the room. In the hall I saw the same huge cop on top of the second protester who'd come to the first victim's aid. The cop had the man, a relatively small guy in his forties, pinned down, arms pulled behind his back, getting handcuffed. The cop used PPCT against this person also, not once but twice. The man writhed and cried out in pain. The cop used his far-greater strength and body weight, along with the force of his knee on his victim's back to press his chest against the floor. It would be impossible for a person to inflate his lungs pressed against the floor with his hands cuffed behind his back like that. Asphyxiation being a well-known cause of death of people in custody, when the man started calling out that he couldn't breathe, I approached, identified myself as a doctor, and instructed the cop to turn him over immediately. The victim went limp. The cop turned him onto his back. I saw that the victim had a wound on his forehead and blood in his nostrils. He was unconscious. Reiterating numerous times that I was a doctor, I tried to move to where I could assess the victim for breathing and a pulse. The cop shoved me, until finally, after my imploring him to allow me to render medical care to the victim, he allowed me to determine that the victim was alive. But he refused to remove the cuffs despite my requests. A person lying with hands cuffed beneath his body risks nerve damage to the extremities and, moreover, cannot be resuscitated. I continually re-assessed the man, who had now become my patient, and who remained unconscious. Eventually an ambulance arrived, along with the fire department and a contingent of Ann Arbor police officers. While the paramedics went about their business, the first thing being to have the cop un-cuff the patient, I tried to fulfill my obligation to my patient. I tried to oversee what the paramedics were doing, which, contrary to protocol and the normal relationship between physician and paramedic, was all that I was allowed to do. I was forced to stay away. What I witnessed in the course of their treatment appalled me. When the patient didn't respond to a sternal rub, one of the paramedics popped an ammonia inhalant and thrust it beneath the patient's nostrils. If you're interested in what's wrong with that, google Dr. Bryan Bledsoe, foremost authority on paramedicine, and read his article condemning this dangerous practice. That it's "just bad medicine" is sufficient to make the paramedic's actions unacceptable, but what happened next made my blood curdle. He popped a second inhalant and a third, then cupped his hands over the patient's nostrils to heighten the noxious effect. "You don't like that, do you?" he said. At that point I issued a direct medical order for him to stop, but he ignored me. "What you're doing is punitive," I said, "and has no efficacy." Then as the patient retched, rather than rolling him onto his side to avoid the chance of his choking on his own vomit, a firefighter held his feet down and yelled, "don't spit." In thirty years of doctoring, I have never witnessed such egregious maltreatment of a patient. Again I spoke up, "this is punitive." I hoped to shame the paramedical into stopping his unethical behavior. Suddenly an Ann Arbor cop ordered me to move away. As I headed for my purse and coat, the cop attacked me from behind, twisted my arms with extreme force behind my back, and shoved me against the wall. I begged him to release my left arm, explaining that I had a serious condition affecting my shoulder, and pleading with him because of the excruciating pain he was inflicting on me. I told him that I would do whatever he demanded. I told him that I had been in the process of complying with his order to move out of the way and that I was heading toward where my purse and coat were. He told me to relax and wrenched my arms harder. I was in agony. I told him that I would sit down, anything, that he was really hurting me and begged him to release my arm. Eventually he let my arms down. But his brutality did not stop there. He then forced me to stand in the stairwell in a corner for a protracted period of time. I asked him if I could please go home, as I was in pain, and I was deeply traumatized. In yet another raw display of abuse of power, he forced me to stand there, causing me ongoing suffering and humiliation, before finally allowing me to leave. The U of M proceeded with prosecution of the other three people, but I heard nothing further from them until I filed a complaint of police brutality. Now I'm facing criminal prosecution, too, along with the Professor of Iranian History, who, like me, was charged after she filed a complaint. We five are being prosecuted for "assaulting/resisting/obstructing" police officers, and in my case, for "assaulting/resisting/obstructing" paramedics as well."

12/5/2007 8:54:30 AM

god damn

12/5/2007 9:00:06 AM

^^ that's fucking outrageous

I hope that cop gets shot by a 12 year old

12/5/2007 9:29:23 AM

Another outrageous story.

This may as well become the "incite the masses to revolution" thread.

12/5/2007 9:41:05 AM

Did I misread this or did it seem like the family left the dog sitting in the front yard for 3 days, and then came home and was like "hey, he's alive!" If you were so upset about your dead dog, wouldn't you at least check him after being shot, maybe stand over his body for a few seconds? And did they go to the hospital and have the entire family stay for days with the grandpa? This just seems a bit fishy.

12/5/2007 9:44:00 AM

the government needs to fear its people

when abuse of authority is so rampant it is pretty apparent that the people fear the government

12/5/2007 9:46:39 AM

the government quit fearing the people many years ago

12/5/2007 9:47:22 AM

that's it... I'm listening to Anti-Flag
Die For The Government

fuck police brutality

12/5/2007 9:50:08 AM

I like 'em too, though I wish Sting hadn't left the band.

12/5/2007 9:55:30 AM

Great thread

12/5/2007 9:57:09 AM

RALEIGH - A Highway Patrol trooper was charged late Tuesday with drunken driving and assaulting a Raleigh police officer after he drove his car into a pond.

Steven Bradley, 38, of Apex drove into the pond near the intersection of Jones Franklin and Macedonia roads about 10:56 p.m, according a Raleigh police report. His daughter was in the car with him at the time.

Bradley is accused of kicking a police officer in the shin, walking away from officers and failing to place his hands behind his back as ordered. He is charged with DWI, child abuse, carrying a concealed weapon, assault on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest.

Bradley was not on duty and was driving his personal vehicle at the time, Lt. Everett Clendenin said.

Bradley has been placed on investigative leave, Clendenin said. He joined the patrol in August 1991 and had been assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force, a group of state and federal law enforcement officers.

Clendenin said troopers know that the patrol will take "quick decisive action" if they are convicted of DWI.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/crime_safety/story/812539.html

12/5/2007 10:44:48 AM

No justice
No peace

No racist police

12/5/2007 10:59:24 AM

^^ I thought cops were allowed to carry concealed weapons, even off duty. Odd charge that...

Still, that's a bit messed up that he assaulted RPD officers.

What's up with all the cop violence stuff though. I don't know if it's more frequent or just more sensationalized. Who's good with all those charts and shit? We need police brutality numbers. :E

12/5/2007 12:34:15 PM

I know he has to tell them of the weapon pretty quick and there are still the technicalities of it being a legal gun, him being a cop just means he (i'm assuming) has the right to carry a concealed weapon just like anybody else that takes the course does.

i forgot to tell a cop one time there was a gun in the center console, honest mistake.. it wasn't loaded, no magazines near by and no bullets near by.. they were still fucking pissed

12/5/2007 12:36:14 PM

shit I tell cops if there's a knife in my pocket cause I don't want to get tasered for "resisting"

if you have a gun in the car is it a good idea to place it out in the open or should you not touch it and immediately inform the cop of the weapon?

12/5/2007 12:38:25 PM

Do not touch it unless you want to get shot...

My situation was different, I wasn't in the car, they got a search warrant and had just started to search my car and found it first thing before I remembered it was even in there.

I usually just left it out in the open though so there would be no question about it if I were stopped while driving.

[Edited on December 5, 2007 at 12:40 PM. Reason : asdf]

12/5/2007 12:39:50 PM

so... leave the hands on the steering wheel?

what kind of speech should I give the cop?

Like... "Officer it is my duty to inform you that there is a firearm __(location)__."

12/5/2007 12:41:09 PM

That's what I was told when I bought mine... and the guy who searched my car made it seem like that's what I should have done.

12/5/2007 12:42:03 PM

basically, especially if you have a CCP

12/5/2007 12:42:20 PM

^^^basically

i havent been pulled since i got my concealed permit but they tell you to give them your license and permit and inform them what you have

if you dont have a concealed permit, put it on the front seat or dash, give them your license, HANDS BACK ON THE STEERING WHEEL and tell them about the gun

[Edited on December 5, 2007 at 12:42 PM. Reason : ^^^]

12/5/2007 12:42:37 PM

Quote :

"^^ I thought cops were allowed to carry concealed weapons, even off duty. Odd charge that... "

i believe since he was charged with a DWI, alchohol in the system negates his ability to legally carry concealed and thus the charge

12/5/2007 12:54:21 PM

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"if you dont have a concealed permit, put it on the front seat or dash, give them your license, HANDS BACK ON THE STEERING WHEEL and tell them about the gun"

but them seeing the motion of you putting the gun on the front seat is dangerous is it not? esp if they are coming from behind your car...pow wow their goes your rear window

12/5/2007 12:55:59 PM

Not sure how it is in NC, but here in SC, you can't concealed carry when you have been drinking, even if you have the license.

12/5/2007 1:00:20 PM

^^well as soon as you see the blue lights turn on put it in plain view...if you dont have a concealed permit, you dont want them to find a concealed weapon

and yeah, in North Carolina, if you drink any alcohol, even if you're a cop, you're not supposed to carry a firearm...

12/5/2007 1:02:36 PM

fuck da police

12/5/2007 1:03:47 PM

set em up set em up

12/5/2007 1:04:17 PM