The first story stems from a lawsuit filed just days ago against the New York Police Department and the City of New York, alleging unlawful search and seizure, excessive force and malicious prosecution.
During a Labor Day barbecue, the son of a homeowner was carrying a bag of trash to the can in front of the house and was accosted by two officers who stopped to question him about an orange cone placed on the curb to reserve a parking space. The police demanded identification and when he failed to produce the requested documentation, he was grabbed by one of the cops.
He broke free and ran back into the house, whereupon the two officers, and an army of backup that swiftly arrived at the scene, swarmed the house, breaking windows and smashing in the front door. Several guests and residents were beaten to the ground with batons and pepper sprayed, including one woman who suffered an asthma attack.
Several people were arrested and taken to the hospital for treatment of severe facial lacerations, blows to the head, and trauma. Curiously, the homeowner's son who was originally confronted by the police was not charged. Subsequently all charges were dismissed and the records sealed by the court.
Now this story could just be chalked up with the hundreds or thousands of similar cases that are becoming all too routine in today's United (Police) States of America, except for one other incident that occurred during this melee.
The cage of the homeowner's pet parakeet was knocked to the ground and bent open and the dazed bird was laying on the floor. The homeowner's daughter cried out, "The bird!"
One of the officers screamed, "Fuck the bird!" and stomped on the defenseless animal, grinding it to death under his heel.
“I was shocked,” the daughter told a reporter for the NY Daily News. “It was a blue and green bird. It was really pretty.”
The homeowner further commented, “The cops don’t care about us as humans, they’re going to care about a bird?”
The second story comes from Kansas City, Missouri, when police came to the door of a local attorney, looking for one of the lawyer's clients. The attorney refused to consent to the warrantless search, then one of the police officers started threatening him saying, “If we have to get a warrant, we’re going to come back when you’re not expecting it, we’re going to park in front of your house, where all your neighbors can see, we’re gonna bust in your door with a battering ram, we’re gonna shoot and kill your dogs, and then we’re going to ransack your house.”
The attorney filed an official complaint, but when contacted, the police department simply responded that the case was under "internal investigation," where the vast majority of such grievances fall into the void.
When asked to comment on the case, a professor of law at the George Washington University Law School, said that Missouri has a statute that defines a "credible threat...against the life of, or a threat to cause physical injury to, or the kidnapping of, the person, the person's family, or the person's household members or domestic animals or livestock as aggravated stalking and might fit the bill in this situation. However, that law explicitly exempts law enforcement officers conducting investigations of violation of federal, state, county, or municipal law."
The number of incidents involving police shooting family pets is so widespread (statistics indicate one shooting of domestic animals every 90 minutes) that the phenomenon is the subject of an upcoming documentary by Ozymandias Media called "Puppycide."
Once again, it becomes clear that the government is employing a policy of intimidation and indoctrination to terrorize the populace into abject compliance to the whims of our nation's armed authorities, regardless of the constitutional rights, liberties, and protections of our country's citizens.
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