re: See. THIS is an example of the policing problem in the United States

No, you don't sue the shite out of the city.

If that cop has a dog, you kill it. When that happens after police shootings of dogs, they will start getting the message.

After the investigation he was reinstated, apparently without disciplinary measures. Does this mean that they found no grievous violations in his conduct? The illegal entry is a 4th amendment violation, but what are the codified law violations that follow, such as animal cruelty, careless discharge of a firearm or false reporting?

Would the 4th amendment violation nullify qualified immunity? And just what threshold has to be crossed for termination?

It's amazing how that narrative of defending the police has stuck despite even Democrat mayors and governors asking for more money for police. The issue was always confined to limited enclaves like the whacked out sections of Seattle, San Francisco and maybe Minneapolis for a little while.

However, coming from a family of cops (grandfather, uncles and cousins) they have a rough job and really in cities, they aren't paid enough to put up with some of the crap they do. But, also, as my grandfather would say, "Cops are problems waiting to happen, for bad guys......and themselves"

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That is a slam-dunk case if the family elects to pursue litigation. Cop was out of bounds by about 15 miles.

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And yet what is obvious to everybody in this thread apparently is completely not obvious to his leadership

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Looks like a DEI hire too. A complete disgrace to the fraternity.

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Yeah, my thoughts exactly. First look at the guy, my thought process was how is the scrawny gamer type of guy even a cop?

Anyway, it’s a shame situation like this makes the rest of the good cops look bad. I have 2 dogs and if a cop broke into my house and killed them, I would have lost my shite. My condolences to the family.

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This mother fricker was serving a civil summons for credit card debt.

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Seems like that could be done by certified mail. Why would a police officer even need to be a party to that transaction?

I'd sue the debt collector as well

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Lock your doors! Gotta keep the cops out.

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Laughs in halligans and battering rams.

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I love the blind down votes. As a very politically conservative person myself I've always found it fascinating that at the core of conservatism is that we don't trust the government. Yet the overwhelming majority of conservatives would happily bend over and take it up the arse from anybody wearing a blue uniform without even questioning it. It makes no sense at all. I mean you guys do realize that the police are literally the tip of the government spear.

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There are plenty on this board who'll blindly go to bat for the police state, and in the same breath call themselves "small government conservatives."

They shouldn't be voting, they're just as ignorant and brainwashed as the purple hairs.

If covid didn't show you that police will do whatever their politician tells them to do, even if it's disgustingly unconstitutional, then you can't be reasoned with.

We were staying at a buddy's squirrel camp, and it was the 3 of us and one 30 year veteran police officer. In the process of him getting liquored up at a card game, he opens up about all the shite they'd done over the years: Everything from cutting tires, to planting evidence to get a supposedly "guilty" criminal off the street, to writing tickets in Walmart parking lot when the mayor said the city needed money, and all kinds of other crooked, corrupt, lawless shite, and it wasn't just him — it was department wide. It really opened my eyes as a 19 year old young man who thought the police were friendly public servants.

If a cop is found to be crooked and breaking the law and imprisoning citizens falsely, he should get life without parole, and if any citizen dies as a result of his actions, the death penalty is warranted. There's nothing more egregious than a crooked officer of the state.