Jackson Cop Breaks into Wrong House, Kills Dog, Laughs, Continues On

[XLFD]

And as the title says, why does he laugh?  Perhaps it's because he knew even then that he will never be held to account for what he did because he wears a badge, so the least of what he's looking at is a paid vacation, followed by a Jackson internal investigation showing he followed proper protocol, followed by a lawsuit against the city where the citizens pay for his police malpractice while he goes on 'protecting and serving' them. 

In such manner, police brutality and police unaccountability are legitimized at the expense of society, because the police hierarchy and the village, city, county, or state legislative boards either endorse the police officer or they remain mum-- if not out of their own volition, by the advice of their corporate attorneys. 

Consider if you were a taxicab driver told by your dispatch to go to a certain address to pick someone up.  Then let's say you go to the wrong address, proceed to go to the door, open it up without the preemptory knocking or doorbell ringing, go inside, see a pit bull terrier, at which point you take out your gun and shoot it.

A short list of crimes could easily be drawn up by the local prosecutor to fine and/or put you away for your several critical mistakes of judgment.  But let's keep all the parameters of the above situation and put a police badge on you, and see what happens, as it did down in Jackson two weekends ago, as related in PINAC who received their data from  Jackson Cop Block.

                                                        Jackson PD: shoot one of our dogs and see what happens to you

On November 28th 2014, Jackson Police Officer Matt Peters came to 20 year old Eddie Harris’ residence looking for an individual to take to the hospital for a psychological evaluation. Peters entered the house without a warrant and when Harris came down to see who walked in his house, Peters shot his dog, Kane, just feet in front of him at the bottom of the stair case.

Then Officer Peters learned he had the wrong address.

Footage from outside of the house where the incident took place was taken by Shamsidden Brown, his neighbor (below).  Some of the language is spicy.

Harris explained that the officer was there looking for someone who didn’t live at his address. The petition, which is not a warrant, stated that police should look at unit numbers 511 and 513 at the 500 block of South Blackstone Street. Neither address belongs to the individual named in the petition. 

Harris in a telephone conversation said, “If he would have missed, he could have shot me. What if I had children in the house?”.  Harris said his dog Kane has never bitten anyone and has had no issues with animal control.  He explained that Officer Peters never knocked and just opened the door to his house without announcing who he was.

“When I asked him why he shot my dog, he said he bit him. But he didn’t bite him. He’s a pitbull, man. He was walking around smirking and smiling. The worst part is he smirked and didn’t even apologize or show that he was human. It wouldn’t be so bad if he apologized. What’s so funny about that? Why can he enter my home without permission, without even knocking?  He won’t even give me his badge number.”

Harris also says he is trying to get a police report so that he can file a complaint for the warrantless entry, “they won’t give it to me. They keep telling me the investigation is still in session. I keep asking what you are going to do with him [Officer Peters]? Keep him on the clock? Take him off? And they say, we’ll let you know once we’re done.”

Shades of Ludington area police policies?  Recall LPD Officer Aaron Sailor barging into a private residence absent any warrant and face-planting innocent bystander Shelly Burns from behind.  Recall MSP Trooper James Luttrull having his gun out and fatally using it without any warning on retired teacher Bill Marble when investigating a confusing 9-1-1 call.  Recall the use of tasers by LPD and sheriff's deputies on innocent-of-any-crime Joe McAdam while he was chained to a hospital bed and dared to turn down medical treatment.   

In each local instance, three people innocent of any crime and minding their own business, were trespassed on, assaulted, eavesdropped on, shot, tased, etc. by men who claim to have been working for the public good.  If the three victims were wearing badges and each of the members of the three attacking groups weren't, the results would be a lot of stiff prison sentences for the members of those aggressive gangs.  Instead, each and all continued on in their profession with nary a demerit assigned to them by their superiors or by the government unit employing them. 

Shouldn't they be held to the same standards as the rest of us, perhaps, heaven forbid, even to higher standards because they are supposedly serving and protecting the public as their duty?

[Willy]

There have been cases where people have been shot when the police entered the wrong house because of the no-knock laws. http://lawblog.legalmatch.com/2014/11/20/disturbing-implications-no...

[XLFD]

That statistic is very true, and thank you for the Judge Napolitano clip.  Innocent dogs and little girls are frequent victims of the government's war on drugs/poverty that use commando raids and guerilla tactics to wage war on the unsuspecting-- yet the police involved seem to always go to the wrong address and get the innocent and the unsuspecting.  The one that comes to mind is the little girl who was killed by a bullet after a flash grenade blinded the cop during one of these botched raids (http://countercurrentnews.com/2014/11/aiyana-stanley-jones/)

[wildfire]

YESS, They should be in "PRISON" All their lies, and getting away with crap to "KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE" Is totally "BULLCRAP" in my book.... Why do they want the "COPS" to wear these camera's they will find a way to coruped them to them camera's aren't going to help us out any them cops will fix them so they work in their favor. I watched this video and it was so sad to see that poor helpless dog laying their in blood, it mad me cry, that goes to show you the "COPS"  are NOT the good guys any more, We all have to fight for our rights, or some COP will take them from us and our loved ones, the cops don't care as long as they get their pay check every day. We the people are hurting inside because of a lost loved one, or one sitting some where they do not belong because the cop got PAID to LIE and PRETACT  his own kind they don't give two shits, about our feelings or our loved ones, none of them do , none!!!!

[XLFD]

The video shows the Jackson officers that arrived after the shooting occurred didn't have the intestinal fortitude and moral compass to detain and question the officer who was alleged to have committed such a heinous act.  Perhaps if part of our officers' mandated training involved enforcing the laws equally and fairly to all, and this was reinforced by the cops' superior officers by their conduct, we wouldn't have this problem that's growing to epidemic proportions. 

However, the forces standing in the way of this happening include just about every public agency, every public service union, and the sheep in our society that looks upon such behavior as acceptable in a civilized world.  The difference between a good cop and a bad cop nowadays is that a good cop will not exist for long in a police agency that condones bad cop behavior.  Those police agencies seem to be becoming the norm, rather than the exception, and among the many factors of why this is the case, it's largely due to their perceived lack of accountability to anyone.