Officer James Freeman of Greenbrier, Arkansas was doing a sex offender compliance check on private property when the homeowner’s dog barked at him. So Freeman shot the dog.
Read the full article and watch the video
AR: Cop kills dog during sex offender compliance check at wrong home
[floridaactioncommittee.org – 11/17/20]
Arkansas police detective shoots family dog while doing a compliance check AT THE WRONG ADDRESS!! 😡😡😡
According to the comments in the article, the cop was already cleared of any wrongdoing. Which is to be expecting considering that what happened with Breonna Taylor. How can the system continue brushing these kind of things off as it’s no big deal? This country has shit for justice.
How utterly infuriating. Hopefully these people successfully sue and hound that cop for the rest of his life, shaming him at every opportunity. What a sick, sadistic…ugh!
And how must the registrant feel? What a shame.
This pos needs to be prosecuted for his being trigger happy with a bloated ego. No damn it was a mistake he killed someone’s dog because he had false information and needs to be held accountable.
So now the dead dog is also collateral damage as a result of this misguided crusade.
“Promoting public safety….”
Utterly speechless.
This isn’t funny at all but for some reason I can’t stop laughing at this stupid azz cop who was so focused on victimizing a registrant that he didn’t even double-check the address or wait till he had a visual on the person in question.
No instead he walks on someone’s private property and shoots their dog. I bet that wasn’t the first time he went by that house and was scard off by that dog
so he came back to teach that sex offender and his stupid dog a lesion.
Good luck
We need more REAL HERO cops like Christopher Dorner to come out of the woodwork to hold pigs like this accountable. The public can only stand so much.
This country is over!
“Duh chief, I was out on patrol while I was told I need to do a compliance check on them people. While I was at the address a doggy was barking at me scaring me and I fired a shot. I don’t read or comprehend to well; so not my fault I ended up at the wrong house. Please be easy on me.”
Cops can kill innocent people, sexually abuse people, murder animals and get away with it. These asshats need to be held accountable for their crimes and get more than a demotion to desk duty.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/faulkner-county-sheriffs-investigator-fatally-shoots-kids-dog-after-going-to-wrong-house/ar-BB1aTF
Instigator needs to be charged with animal cruelty especially if he was at the right address before; yet shot the dog anyway.
Makes you wonder what the actual registered person is thinking right now? Maybe how he can protect himself against being shot like the dog at some point in the future?
Wonder if there is any law in that jurisdiction against registrants from putting up security fences around their property to protect themselves from rogues with trigger fingers?
He knew what he was doing and could get away with it without issue (damn qualified immunity). He was nonchalant (to say the least) about it with no remorse as seen in the video when he went about his business even after the shooting. No matter his thinking, he could have got back into his truck, protected himself, and talked to the guy through an open window to determine if he was where he needed to be and the dog would be still alive. That’s what he could have done if he truly felt threatened instead of pulling a weapon and using it. Not like the dog was within close proximity of physically attacking him. This scenario reeks of smugness.
Lawsuit the dept and the individual with a civil suit. Just because he was cleared criminally, he and they can still be held liable civilly. Just ask OJ Simpson. I’d also ask the county commissioners to investigate their department. May not go anywhere (small town Arkansas), but it may get them to bring change either in commissioners if they don’t do anything, a sheriff, and/or the deputy into retirement.
This story cuts my soul for a few reasons:
1) The blatant disregard for life displayed by the officer.
2) The gut-wrenching loss experienced by the family whose dog was mercilessly taken from them.
3) For twenty years prior to my crime, I was affiliated with Adopt-A-Dog in Connecticut and New York. I helped place dozens of doggies into loving homes. And I had as many as six adoptees of my own at one time. So, to see such a callous act against an innocent life is uber-disturbing.
I now live in California and in September I had to sign my new batch of conditions. The following is the most notable change to the prior conditions: “You shall not reside in places where vicious or potentially dangerous animals impede access, pose a danger or interfere with parole supervision. Potentially dangerous animals include any animal that when unprovoked, engages in any behavior that requires a defensive action by any person to prevent bodily injury. It also includes any animal that is known to have bitten or injured any person or other animal in the past and animals that have not been properly registered, confined or controlled. If you reside in places where vicious animals are present you shall be directed to remove, register, confine or control the potentially dangerous animal in question or in the alternative shall be be directed to relocate to an acceptable residence as approved by the applicable chain of command.”
Nowhere in the written stipulation does it indicate to shoot and kill. And that’s the condition for a registrant. It is NOT the condition for an innocent citizen whose premises were encroached by a mis-guided fu*k-nut.
We need to compile a database of every officer that is involved with compliance checks so the public can be informed of the frightening and high risk they pose on the community.
I would have no issues returning the favor and making his kids fatherless.