Cop kills family dog during traffic stop!

aphexcoil

aphexcoil

Wow:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/01/09/police.kill.dog/index.html


In the video, released by the highway patrol, officers are heard ordering the family, one by one, to get out of their car with their hands up. James Smoak and his wife, Pamela, and 17-year-old son Brandon are ordered onto their knees and handcuffed.

"What did I do?" James Smoak asks the officers.

"Sir, inside information is that you was involved in some type of robbery in Davidson County," the unidentified officer says.
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"Inside information is that you was involved" <snip>

They give guns to these rednecks and call them cops?!



Smoak and his wife protest incredulously, telling the officers that they are from South Carolina and that their mother and father-in-law are traveling in another car near them.

The Smoaks told CNN that as they knelt, handcuffed, they pleaded with officers to close the doors of their car so their two dogs would not escape, but the officers did not heed them.

Pamela Smoak is seen on the tape looking up at an officer, telling him slowly, "That dog is not mean. He won't hurt you."

Her husband says, "I got a dog in the car. I don't want him to jump out."

The tape then shows the Smoaks' medium-size brown dog romping on the shoulder of the Interstate, its tail wagging. As the family yells, the dog, named Patton, first heads away from the road, then quickly circles back toward the family.

An officer in a blue uniform aims his shotgun at the dog and fires at its head, killing it immediately.

For several moments, all that is audible are shrieks as the family reacts to the shooting. James Smoak even stands up, but officers pull him back down.

"Y'all shot my dog! Y'all shot my dog!" James Smoak cries. "Oh my God! God Almighty!"
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Jesus H. Christ! Thank god I grew up in a nice Northeast Urban area! I would have never guessed the south was similar to third world countries!
 
no, nor from the deep south, however blind grouping of any group of people in my book is indicative of a closed, prejudiced mind...You are welcome to your opinions, thats what makes the world go 'round
I shouldnt have posted at all.
 
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no, nor from the deep south, however blind grouping of any group of people in my book is indicative of a closed, prejudiced mind...You are welcome to your opinions, thats what makes the world go 'round
I shouldnt have posted at all.
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You're right, I shouldn't have stereotyped the south. Just Tennessee.
 
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Thank god I grew up in a nice Northeast Urban area! I would have never guessed the south was similar to third world countries!
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aphie,

C'mon man, you live in or near PG county, the jurisdiction that has been under Justice Department investigation for most of the last 20 years for police brutality and misconduct.
 
There are boneheaded cops in every police department in the country. Tennessee has no distinction there.

As for the Northeast Aphie, didn't Abner Louima get sodomized up there by Officer Volpe?
 
Maybe the do gooders with the video cams could provide some footage of some of the 50,000 assaults committed on police officers each year. Just for shits and giggles. Of course that does not make very good news copy.



Table 36
Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted
Type of Weapon by Number of Assaults and Percent Injured,1992-2001 Knife or Other Number of Number
cutting dangerous Personal reporting Population of
Total 1 Firearm instrument weapon weapons agencies covered officers

1992 Total assaults 81,150 Percent injured 36.5
1993 Total assaults 62,933 Percent injured 36.3
1994 Total assaults 64,967 Percent injured 35.8
1995 Total assaults 57,762 Percent injured 30.1
1996 Total assaults 46,608 Percent injured 32.1
1997 Total assaults 52,149 Percent injured 30.4
1998 Total assaults 60,673 Percent injured 30.7
1999 Total assaults 55,971 Percent injured 28.0
2000 Total assaults 58,398 Percent injured 28.1
2001 Total assaults 56,666 Percent injured 28.6

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
 
the question is how many of these assaults on cops were of their own doing, ie the cop "encouraged" or incited the assault because 90% of them have to act like the macho nuttbusters that they are. i'd like to see the answer to THAT question. :-/
 
I think southern cops are seen as racist and dumb because they are. I can't put much stock in crime statistics from cops about assualts on cops either. The make that stuff up to cover their own ass. It all started when he hit me back....

Max
 
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