Comments on: Mayor Calvo sues over police murder of his dogs

By: Lisa Moessner

Lisa Moessner — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:19:11 +0000

It is utterly apparent the Police Force has gravitated to a sub human role. I rather be shot and killed myself than my beloved dog! I am sure not all SWAT/police members are guilty of these inhumane atrocities of blatant and merciless animal abuse, but of those of whom are, we the people of the United States will not stand for this any longer! We pay your salaries! Elect political officials! Our pets ARE OUR CHILDREN! And we are at war with those who kill them!

By: Russ Belville: Columbia, Missouri, SWAT kills family dog over misdemeanor marijuana possession (with video)

Fri, 07 May 2010 05:02:29 +0000

[...] them down, and even the mayor of a town in Maryland forced to sit handcuffed near a pool of his slaughtered black labs’ blood during a SWAT raid that turned out to be in [...]

By: b0nghitter

b0nghitter — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:36:14 +0000

VIDEO OF THIS STORY FROM CNN ON MONDAY:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxc597VQAJU

By: Jillian

Jillian — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:44:30 +0000

hell yeah I’ll sign it sameold! I’d love to see these bullies lose their jobs!

By: sameoldwine

sameoldwine — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:03:02 +0000

The video above highlights the Calvos plight.
End the Freaking Police State Tactics!
Why does every small town have a SWAT unit these days? Hmmmmm….

By: Radical Russ

Radical Russ — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:54:04 +0000

Good point, as this paragraph from the Portland Examiner elaborates:

The Calvos could almost be said to have been lucky. After all, Minneapolis police shot it out with Vang Khang during a 2007 raid on the man’s home, only finding out after the fact that they had the wrong place (officers in the incident were decorated for their “bravery.”). John Adams was shot to death by police during a raid on the wrong house in Lebanon, Tennessee. And Cory Maye is serving life in prison in Mississippi after killing an officer who burst into his home after police staged yet another misfired and poorly planned drug raid that was supposed to hit the next-door apartment in his duplex.

By: sameoldwine

sameoldwine — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:53:08 +0000

Petition for Responsible SWAT Reform

Originally created to deal with emergency or other very-high intensity situations (e.g. snipers, hostages, barricaded suspects), SWAT teams were deployed on fewer than 3,000 occasions in all of 1980. Today, SWAT teams conduct raids more than 50,000 times per year, mostly while doing low-level drug enforcement. This is dangerous, hurtful and wrong.

Please sign the “Petition for Responsible SWAT Reform” to limit SWAT team use to the true emergency or high-intensity situations for which they were created — SWAT teams should be available but rarely used. When you’re done, please visit http://tr.im/pu9Z to watch the video, “SWAT Raids — No One Is Safe” and for more information about this issue. Then, please spread the word so others can see the video and sign the petition too.

By: Jillian

Jillian — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:30:21 +0000

One thing your wife is overlooking Russ is these butchers could conduct a raid on your home at any time anyway. Mistakes happen, wrong information gets given, collateral damage is expected in a war.

Everybody in this country; Drug Free America workers, priests, social workers, surgeons, could all be subject to a no-knock raid at any given time. Nobody is safe!