You killed the mayor's dog?
 

It seems that the cops are a little too trigger-happy in this case.

It is just what Black people are saying all along.

Well, they were black dogs.

Prince George's County cops have a long and well deserved reputation for being unusually stupid and violent thugs. They are the laughingstock of the DC metropolitan area, and have been for at least a decade.

One example, just off the top of my head: a couple years ago, they had to transfer a suspect to DC for some jurisdictional thing there, and the DC cops didn't show up at the border for the exchange, so they handcuffed the dude to a telephone pole and drove away. Guy spent most of the day handcuffed to the telephone pole in a horrible neighborhood in town before a passerby called 911.

This time, they shot a white mayor's dogs inside his home after improperly executing a search warrant. So it's gotten some attention. The FBI is investigating now.

Not only was the warrant execution bungled, the mayor was never given a complete copy of the warrant, which he is entitled to get. They never showed it to him during the event then sent him a copy missing key pages long after the fact.

Either someone's dropping a lot of balls or someone made a huge mistake and needs time to cover it up.

From what I could tell they never actually had a no-knock warrant.

That's awesome.

We get to cover swatting, no-knocks, dead dogs, and the thin blue line all in one article.

Then, in other news, there's Kwame Kilpatrick. Looks like they need a SWAT team around to throw and hold him.

No recall election or impeachment proceedings YET? Detroit? Detroit, WTF? Do you want a mayor who's dumber than Marion Barry?

[edit to add] Sure looks like they do, all things considered...

That is a spectacle.

I used to know a Prince George's County cop.
He was a dick. :cop:

So I guess it's a big deal when it happens to the mayor, but it's ok when it happens to John Q. Citizen. AKA John Q Public.

They came to my house because they got the wrong address once. Apparently they do that all the time, you know, get the wrong address. No one apologized.

This nonsense will be kept under wraps until a Faux News personality goes down in a hail of SWAT fire on live tv. Let them show that on Cops...

PG police are some of the worst out there... I can't speak for effectiveness or for enforcement, but I can speak for attitude. PG cops are, on the whole, COMPLETE douches.

I used to know another PG County cop. He's a bagpiper.

That could replace tasering and waterboarding as a means of coercive interrogation. The brute!

Nah, you just make the interrogatee eat whole haggises until he disgorges what you're after. Or else he gets to liking haggis.