Columbia Mo SWAT Raid 2/11/2010. Cops Shoot Pets With Children Present
1:07 pm - 05/06/2010
edit: SCARY VIDEO WARNING.
Couple of notes via theagitator.com : This town reduced possession of marijuana to a fine many years ago.
SWAT team breaks into home, fires seven rounds at family's pit bull and corgi (?!) as a seven-year-old looks on. They found a "small amount" of marijuana, enough for a misdemeanor charge. The parents were then charged with child endangerment. So smoking pot = "child endangerment." Storming a home with guns, then firing bullets into the family pets as a child looks on = necessary police procedures to ensure everyone's safety.
edit2: there are over 100 swat raids a day in America. This is the SOP.
Article under the cut
A man arrested on suspicion of drug charges and child endangerment said he is concerned with the actions of police who shot two dogs they described as “aggressive” while serving a drug-related search warrant at his home earlier this month in southwest Columbia.
Police arrested Jonathan E. Whitworth, 25, of 1501 Kinloch Court on Feb. 11 on suspicion of possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana and second-degree child endangerment.
A police SWAT team entered Whitworth’s residence around 8:30 p.m. suspecting a large amount of marijuana at the location, police spokeswoman Officer Jessie Haden said. SWAT members encountered a pit bull upon entry, held back and then fatally shot the dog, which officers said was acting in an uncontrollably aggressive manner.
Whitworth was arrested, and his wife and 7-year-old son were present during the SWAT raid, Haden said. A second dog, which Whitworth’s attorney Jeff Hilbrenner described as a corgi, also was shot but was not killed.
“The family is concerned with what happened,” Hilbrenner said. “We don’t feel like what happened in the home was appropriate. The priority right now for us is the misdemeanor charges.”
Police discovered a grinder, a pipe and a small amount of marijuana, Haden said. Because the SWAT team acts on the most updated information available, the team wanted to enter the house before marijuana believed to be at the location could be distributed, she said.
“If you let too much time go by, then the drugs are not there,” she said.
Drug distributors traditionally have a history with firearms, which is why the SWAT team is used when executing such warrants, Haden said. If the SWAT team believed they could have executed the warrant successfully during the daytime when the wife and child were not present, they would have, she said.
http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/201
Couple of notes via theagitator.com : This town reduced possession of marijuana to a fine many years ago.
SWAT team breaks into home, fires seven rounds at family's pit bull and corgi (?!) as a seven-year-old looks on. They found a "small amount" of marijuana, enough for a misdemeanor charge. The parents were then charged with child endangerment. So smoking pot = "child endangerment." Storming a home with guns, then firing bullets into the family pets as a child looks on = necessary police procedures to ensure everyone's safety.
edit2: there are over 100 swat raids a day in America. This is the SOP.
Article under the cut
A man arrested on suspicion of drug charges and child endangerment said he is concerned with the actions of police who shot two dogs they described as “aggressive” while serving a drug-related search warrant at his home earlier this month in southwest Columbia.
Police arrested Jonathan E. Whitworth, 25, of 1501 Kinloch Court on Feb. 11 on suspicion of possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana and second-degree child endangerment.
A police SWAT team entered Whitworth’s residence around 8:30 p.m. suspecting a large amount of marijuana at the location, police spokeswoman Officer Jessie Haden said. SWAT members encountered a pit bull upon entry, held back and then fatally shot the dog, which officers said was acting in an uncontrollably aggressive manner.
Whitworth was arrested, and his wife and 7-year-old son were present during the SWAT raid, Haden said. A second dog, which Whitworth’s attorney Jeff Hilbrenner described as a corgi, also was shot but was not killed.
“The family is concerned with what happened,” Hilbrenner said. “We don’t feel like what happened in the home was appropriate. The priority right now for us is the misdemeanor charges.”
Police discovered a grinder, a pipe and a small amount of marijuana, Haden said. Because the SWAT team acts on the most updated information available, the team wanted to enter the house before marijuana believed to be at the location could be distributed, she said.
“If you let too much time go by, then the drugs are not there,” she said.
Drug distributors traditionally have a history with firearms, which is why the SWAT team is used when executing such warrants, Haden said. If the SWAT team believed they could have executed the warrant successfully during the daytime when the wife and child were not present, they would have, she said.
http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/201
Also, really, a house with pot is child endangerment? If you wanna talk about broken households, stop storming those of people with marijuana and start doing some real dang advocacy for alcoholic homes and meth. You know, actual hard drugs.
brb gonna give my dogs big hugs and have a good cry.
I can't comment about the pit bulls but a small dog the size of a Corgi? Really? Why did this take an entire SWAT team?
Does anyone else remember, this was a few years ago, all of those incidents of cops shooting family pets?
Now realize that these kinds of things happen about 100 times a day in america.
Edited at 2010-05-06 05:29 pm (UTC)
but, believe me, the sounds are more then enough.
I can't watch this video
This war on drugs bullshit needs to end NOW.
http://www.theagitator.com/2008/12/23/p
http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.as
http://www.windypundit.com/archives/200
Police SHOULD be more accountable for their actions.
Also, this War on (Some) Drugs is bullshit, says Captain Obvious.
2: If you storm into somebody's house, then even the most friendliest of dogs can flip their shit. This is common sense.
3: I love how the Corgi was shot but not killed, but let's just kill the pit bull because obviously all pit bulls are man eating monsters. JFC.
:'(
Would it be bad form to hope the pigs responsible get shot themselves? Should I care if it's bad form?
I didn't know we even HAD a swat team. God. And way to go, cops, all over a misdemenor sized amount of pot. Could have gone out into the county and maybe dealt with some of the raging meth problems that area has.
Goddamn.
Though sad when he breaks down when he sees his dead dog. :( Poor bastard, you can't blame him for loosing his Miranda resolve about that.
I hope this kid gets some therapy, even if it's just a school therapist.
I'm hugging my big boy right now, holy shit.