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submitted 8 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Roommates who sued a Maryland county Monday claim police officers illegally entered their apartment without a warrant, detained them at gunpoint without justification and unnecessarily shot their pet dog, which was left paralyzed and ultimately euthanized.

The dog, a boxer mix named Hennessey, did not attack the three officers who entered the apartment before two of them shot the animal with their firearms and the third fired a stun gun at it, according to the federal lawsuit.

The lawsuit seeks at least $16 million in damages over the June 2, 2021 encounter, which started with Prince George's County police officers responding to a report of a dog bite at an apartment complex where the four plaintiffs lived. What happened next was captured on police body camera video and video from a plaintiff's cellphone.

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[-] SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago

What's up with US police and dogs, what's the beef? I used to work briefly on emergency services and dogs, no matter how demonic, were just pushed aside if they decided to come have a sniff. Which rarely happened in the first place.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 23 points 8 months ago

the overlap between people who would make good police officers and those who get a boner from killing animals and hurting women and minorities is 100%, because those are significant parts of the job description

[-] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 12 points 8 months ago

And they only hire people who ‘fit the culture.’ No good guys with guns allowed!

[-] FluorideMind@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

It's just part of the power trip.

[-] Kiwi_Girl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 months ago

They are trained to treat everything as a threat.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 points 8 months ago

They're allowed to kill dogs with no questions asked, so they do. I assume the only reason they don't kill cats is because cats usually have the good sense to hide.

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