“They shot through the door in front of screaming children that were begging them to let the dog out and she was cowering in there,” said homeowner Corina Amato, “They shot through the door and she ran upstairs in the bedroom, and they went up there and pumped AK47 shots into her in my bedroom.”
“This is the bullet hole where they shot my dog,” said Amato’s boyfriend, Rick Johnson, as he pointed to a splintered hole in the bedroom’s wood floor, “There was a pile of guts and blood right up underneath the bed.”
Police destroyed the front door, and now the couple must nail up pieces of plywood to secure their home… or what’s left of it.
The living room is unlivable, the bedroom furniture—splintered and the office has been turned upside down, not to mention tearing holes in the walls, shattering the porcelain bathroom and ripping apart the music room.
The search turned up plenty of herbs Amato had growing in her sunroom, but not the one a confidential informant suggested they would find—marijuana.
This could be you. A “confidential informant” — a snitch — often will tell police what they want to hear in exchange for leniency for their own crimes. The police, following the standard operating procedure, will approach your home as if you are Tony Montana from Scarface, lying in wait for the police with a few of your “little friends”. They’re armed to the teeth and armored against the attack they have been trained to believe you will engage once they burst through your door late at night without knocking. They will destroy your property, smash your TV, slash your furniture, break your electronics, and ruin your home, so they can impress upon you that you are a no good drug dealer and they’ve made your drug dealer life miserable. And God help you if you have a dog, even if it’s a black lab or a dachsund or a chihuahua, because they are trained to believe all dogs are pit bulls or rottweilers ready to attack police and must be shot immediately, if not to protect themselves, then to impress upon you no good drug dealer types that they have the power to kill and next time it might be your wife instead of your dog.
This is how, in the Land of the Free, we deal with our fellow free citizens suspected of planting the wrong herb indoors. We don’t even need proof; the word of a criminal is reason enough to spend your tax dollars on a violent and destructive urban military assault on your castle.
The final line of the story is most amusing:
No one has been charged, and the department has neither apologized nor offered any restitution for killing their dog or trashing their home.
Apology? Restitution? For what? In the police’s eyes, they did nothing wrong. They followed standard procedure in enforcing prohibition laws. The snitch may have made a mistake, but not the cops. How could they have known there would be no contraband unless they broke all the furniture, tore holes in the walls, and destroyed the bathroom to be sure it wasn’t hidden? So what if two innocent people had their home destroyed and their beloved pet murdered in front of their terrified children? That’s the unavoidable cost of fighting the Drug War; there’s always collateral damage in a war.
My fantasy hope is that when these cops who kill dogs go to hell, Cerberus is waiting for them with the ghosts of all the slain canines and all cops’ scrotums smell and taste like peanut butter for eternity.
[...] hand cuffing people and having them sit in their dog’s blood while they interrogate them and tear up their house. All because there is a 1 in 350,000 chance that they are going to be shot [...]
The police in Washington State as in many other states like Nevada are nothing but hoodlums with a badge. They do what suits them, they dont care about the law or upholding it. They will shoot anyone and anything because they can. You know that these assholes will get off for killing the 14 year old dog. and he only shot and killed the dog because he had the power and the ego to do what ever the hell he wanted.
Who the hell is policing the police
[...] in some cases ignoring citizen initiative laws, killing beloved pets and sometimes people, destroying homes, property and lives, all for a little flower that grows everywhere… which incidentally is good [...]
Very good idea! I will forward it to Corina.
She needs to pile every single thing they wrecked on her front lawn with a big stuffed dog to represent Jasmine, block it all off with police tape(bet they left some of that) and let them see their shame every time they drive by to further harass her.
When is this state-sponsored
botaniphobic-terrorism
going to end?!?
@High East
They ARE the enemy of the people. Drug war is a war on US! The peeps who get hit in error are just collateral damage. Inevitable in a war huh?
Had to have a town Mayor get a SWAT hit (and dogs killed) before they picked it up on the media. Has this kind of obscenity gotten to be so commonplace it doesn’t get noticed? Amerika! Indeed!
We jailed Michael Vick for being a dog murderer, but I guess if you are wearing a badge it’s just fine, im sure they just say :it was coming right for us” as its wimpering in the corner.
The tax payer funded war-machine rolls on, casualties pile up. Anybody who decides to leave this country , I would not blame them, paying taxes to fund crap like this is just sickening! I find it harder and harder to be proud to be an american, that’s a sad state of affairs in our country and furthermore a mounting problem for the US government. Make people the enemy, they will become such.
Absolutely outrageous ! The sad reality is this is one of thousands with similar stories. House trashed, dog killed, no drugs found. All in the name of a harmless natural herb. This just shows us how eroded the constitution has become. Some guy can just say you have drugs and that gives them somehow “probable cause” ? Give me a bleeping break. Our founding fathers and Cerberus are waiting…..
Scumbags. Big tough guys abusing a childs pet.
Is their any doubt that law enforcement is no longer servering and protecting the public?
They sure do look like the enemy of the people.
How in this day and age isnt this the top story on CNN and Fox. My god what are we doing to our own citizens is criminal! Im so close to leaving this country all together, its getting so bad anymore we cant even trust cops to serve and protect, instead they just seek and destroy, and we are ok with this???
Wow is all I have to say, how can this go without national news coverage! Just sick!
In modern day Amerika, a judge will sign off on anything that says marijuana. I live in absolute terror that some roided up jackass cop will shoot my dog over what he will come to know as my perfectly legal crop.
I would hire a good lawyer and sue the fuck out of the police department and whoever else played a roll in this. I feel bad for this family mainly because a dog can be like a child to this family. I know i would be devastated had that been my dog.
What the hell is wrong with these fu’k, dog murdering pigs….SUE Baltimore!!!….