Her two-year-old golden Saint Bernard doodle runs to the door and barks at the officers, whose faces are blurred in the video.
The point of body camera footage is accountability; blurring the faces of the officers involved takes that away.
The whole “Bricks and Mini-figs” debacle took the tiniest shred of belief I have left in US police accountability and absolutely nuked it from orbit.
Oops! The cameras were accidentally turned off. But if you can prove they weren’t, well then whoops! Here’s that footage you asked for… But all the faces are blurred and all the audio is deleted “to protect the innocent,” and for NO OTHER REASON, thanks for asking.
It doesn’t have to. As long as there’s an actual trial or otherwise justice.
Internal investigation will find no wrong doing.
There will probably at best be ‘officer training’ with no meaningful accountability; uncensored body camera footage at least puts more pressure on officers to prevent such incidents from happening in the first place.
ACAB
I feel the dog is getting more attention than the baby who got killed in the car…
Reading that it sounds like the asshole just wanted to kill something
Sounds about like every cop I’ve ever talked to
If somebody shot my dog I would probably have to go to prison. I’d claim self defence
They’d have to shoot me next, honestly.
I’m sure you wouldn’t be the only one, but good luck penetrating the ultimate echo chamber of “anyone who is accused of any crime must be some kind of a degenerate and therefore not worthy of any further scrutiny.”
Iran officially bans dogs.
US doesn’t officially ban dogs, but a cop can enter your home at any time and kill your dog. This is entirely legal, and the cop won’t be punished.
I don’t know which is worse.
Just about everything that the U.S. accuses other nations of doing, it is also guilty of.
Given how many dogs come from puppy mills, I’m all for a ban on dogs (and cats).
FWIW my state banned cats and dogs in pet shops except those whom come from rescue facilities. Pounds, etc. which I was glad about.
Iran officially bans dogs.
That’s not exactly true. https://legalclarity.org/are-dogs-illegal-in-iran-ownership-laws-and-penalties/
