Kansas City police officer has 'qualified immunity' — can't be sued after fatally shooting family dog
Kansas City police officer has 'qualified immunity' — can't be sued after fatally shooting family dog
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...
In other words: if you want to break the law, you should join the police.
They're little more than a state sponsored gang.
I'm like this 🤏 close to calling for violence
Not doing it yet, but like
This close
Calling for violence will get you arrested, and actual violence against cops will get you killed.
I know, it's a good thing I'm not calling for violence
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
I know two police officers who shot themselves while trying to kill a dog.
I'll wager they were both awarded medals for being heroically wounded in the line of duty.
I couldn’t believe we didn’t all collectively attack cops everywhere when I saw the videos of their behavior responding to protests summer 2020. What’s it gonna take?
Fuck qualified immunity. What kind of police state horseshit is that?
Hmm, that sounds like it could help a lot of people who are sick, can we test that immunity? Like, with a bullet?