http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/wisconsin-police-deploy-armored-vehicle-over-dog-poop-dispute-swat-team-executes-dog?akid=12436.294211.d6d2cS&rd=1&src=newsletter1025802&t=19
The police chief in Racine, Wisconsin has promised an internal review
after a bizarre neighborhood dispute ended with a SWAT team killing a
family pet.
Resident Kim Polk told WITI that it all began when a neighborhood man’s dog had crapped in her yard on Saturday afternoon.
“His dog proceeded to soil my grass and I asked him you are going to
pick that up because I don’t want that sitting on my grass,” Polk
recalled.
She said that the man responded by kicking the dog poop into a pile
of leaves she was raking, and then threatening her family’s dog with a
bow and arrow.
When Polk’s husband went to talk to the man about the confrontation, she said that he came to the door armed.
“He closed the door and came back to the door with a machete in his
hand, a very long machete so at that time my husband backed up off the
property and I had my daughter call the police,” Polk explained.
“Officers, who for over three hours were focused on peacefully resolving
this crisis through dialogue, were now forced to deal with the
distraction and unpredictability of having the subject’s dog moving
through the scene of this active encounter at a critical time.”
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