My wife's family house was mistaken for a drug house years ago, it was around the block.
Police came in cuffing them and shot the family dog when it got aggressive trying to protect the yard, and noone in family being able to restrain him as they were in cuffs
This was in Canada.
This happened ~15 years ago, my wife still traumatized and never leaves pets outdoors.
Their family has quite the disdain for police overall since..
Over use of police force happens everywhere, and just more known in these communication real-time times.
The guy who requested to take the "hit" out, definitely the guy who made the call, and I doubt but also the officer most of all should all be charged.
Hope they make an example of the guy making the false reports as he has history of doing it, and blew off the consequences of his joke.
I can't believe the police didn't verify the situation before escalating.
Even if it was a real situation, the guy who had his life stolen could have been the hostage.
Police have made these mistakes without false information... I put the biggest blame on them, also important to not label all police officers the same as some are very upstanding citizens.
I couldn't agree more, and I'm sorry to hear about your wife's family.
Your thesis statement:
> Police have made these mistakes without false information... I put the biggest blame on them, also important to not label all police officers the same as some are very upstanding citizens.
Is exactly what I wish more people on this forum would read. There's so many people painting every cop with the brush of evil, or either excusing their mistakes/transgressions. The truth is always in between, and our tendency as humans to have knee-jerk reactions is not helpful at all to making real progress.
Except that because of the 'Blue Shield', police are rarely ever charged with any misdoing. A cop is never wrong, unless there is more than a mountain of evidence against them, and that makes me see all police as complicit.
Those 'very upstanding citizens' are the same ones who sit by silently as hundreds of unarmed Americans are shot each year by police.
If I was mugged by a person of a particular race, and some people of that same race didn't speak out, would I be justified in seeing all members of that race as complicit?
Police came in cuffing them and shot the family dog when it got aggressive trying to protect the yard, and noone in family being able to restrain him as they were in cuffs
This was in Canada.
This happened ~15 years ago, my wife still traumatized and never leaves pets outdoors. Their family has quite the disdain for police overall since..
Over use of police force happens everywhere, and just more known in these communication real-time times.
The guy who requested to take the "hit" out, definitely the guy who made the call, and I doubt but also the officer most of all should all be charged.
Hope they make an example of the guy making the false reports as he has history of doing it, and blew off the consequences of his joke.
I can't believe the police didn't verify the situation before escalating. Even if it was a real situation, the guy who had his life stolen could have been the hostage.
Police have made these mistakes without false information... I put the biggest blame on them, also important to not label all police officers the same as some are very upstanding citizens.