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Sheriff's office investigator James Freeman was doing a compliance check on a sex offender, but went to the wrong house. When he got out of his truck, the terrier at the house barked at him. The cop shot the dog dead....just for barking.

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Faulkner County Sheriff's investigator fatally shoots kid's dog after going to wrong house

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) - The Faulkner County Sheriff’s Office is conducting an internal investigation after an investigator shot and killed a child’s dog. According to a spokesperson, Investigator James Freeman was in Greenbrier for a sex offender compliance check but went to the wrong home.

Chris Coiner, who lives at the home where Freeman shot the dog, contacted Seven On Your Side after his dog had been shot and killed on Monday afternoon.

Coiner, who recorded his interaction with Freeman, said his dog was shot just for barking. “Wait right there. What is your name? What’s your name?” Coiner asked the investigator in the video. “I’m investigator Freeman with the Faulkner County Sheriff’s Office...I’m looking for Samuel,” Freeman responded.

“At what address?” Coiner asked. “72 A,” Freeman responded.

“That’s over there you G****** moron. Get off my property! You shot and killed my dog!"

It was a gruesome scene on Autumn Hills Road Monday afternoon when Freeman shot Coiner’s three-year-old Terrier mix, Clide. Coiner said Freeman shot Clide in the head.

“My daughter was coming to the door and said somebody was in the driveway,” Coiner described. “Just a blue pickup, unmarked. Before I was even around the corner here, I heard a shot, and the officer had shot my dog right here in the yard for barking at him. My girlfriend watched it out the window, the dog was not attacking him, the dog was barking, in my yard, on private property.”


https://katv.com/news/local/faulkne...ly-shoots-kids-dog-after-going-to-wrong-house

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He's ll get a slap on the wrist.


 
RIP sweet prince

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I googled “faulkner cop shoots dog” and there were a lot of stories like this.
 
@tonni

25 dogs are killed by police....a DAY. And that's the DOJ's estimate. Private estimates are as high as 500 a day.

Cops in this country kill so many dogs each year that a specialist at the Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) community-oriented program services office says it has become an “epidemic.” The DOJ estimates that around 25 to 30 dogs are killed by cops every day, with some numbers as high as 10,000 per year. The totals could, in fact, be higher, since most police agencies do not formally track officer-involved shootings involving animals.

In Detroit, cops killed at least 25 dogs in 2015 and 21 before the first half of 2016. According to police records, two detectives had killed at least 100 dogs between them over the course of their careers. Meanwhile Metro Atlanta cops kill on average 50 dogs per year, and a Buffalo, New York, news channel investigation found that police there killed 92 dogs over three years, with one officer having killed 26 himself.

The pet owner’s recourse to hold cops accountable for killing a family pet, though, is not easy. The law provides “immunity” for cops unless their actions were “plainly incompetent” or they violated the law, according to the courts. Dogs are considered “property” under the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, so a cop killing someone’s dog is recognized as a “seizure” of the person’s property. In order for someone to show a constitutional violation when a cop kills his dog, a person must show that the cop’s actions were “unreasonable” given the situation. Absent a constitutional claim, a person could sue for damages because of the loss of property (the dog), but any damage award is usually limited to the “market value” of the dog, typically the purchase price. Some states, however, do offer limited damages for emotional distress for the loss of a dog, but not many. Still, cops are normally exempt from claims under those remedies.

https://www.criminallegalnews.org/n...ice-shooting-family-dogs-has-become-epidemic/

It's almost like giving full legal immunity to a profession full of sociopaths is a bad idea.
 
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