Police honored for firing at the wrong family

[BT]

Looks like they blew the raid, but they did have a warrant. and apparently no knock warrants are legal in MD, even if this case that is not what they had.

[Universe Prince]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/07/AR2008080702161_2.html?sid=ST2008080603533&pos=

An attorney came forward yesterday to allege a possible pattern of animal abuse by the sheriff's department. Michael Winkleman said he is representing another family whose dog was shot by sheriff's deputies in November, along with a woman who is suing the department for searching her home without a warrant and threatening to shoot her dog. In the first case, Winkleman said, sheriff's deputies arrived at the Accokeek home of Frank and Pamela Myers with a warrant for another house on their street. After the couple informed the deputies of their error, they continued to question the couple and looked around their home. As they spoke, the couple's 5-year-old German boxer began barking in a yard, out of sight. Soon after, according to Winkleman, the couple heard gunshots, and they found the dog shot to death. He said the family is preparing to file suit. In another case, Upper Marlboro resident Amber James has filed a $4 million lawsuit accusing sheriff's deputies of searching her home without a warrant in May 2007 while looking for her sister, who lived in Capitol Heights. According to the suit, deputies falsely claimed to have a warrant and searched every room of the home. When they did not find the sister, the suit alleges, they threatened to return the next day and search again, saying that if they did, James's dog would be dead.

[kimba1]

looks to me
it`s not the house search or the lack of a warrant thats gonna sink them
it`s the dog shootings.
it didn`t help micheal vick and it`s not gonna help these guys
note when they shot the dogs of the mayor .it was never mention of any offer of payment for fixing the damage to the house or replacement of the dogs.