No, but it might wake a few people up to what they're doing wrong and prevent future fvckups.

If that were true, everyone would be sueing each other 24/7, which we are already close to doing anyway in our society. Someone put Disney City Hall in charge, damit!! :cheers:

Ignoring the general abuse and overuse of no knock warrants, it turns out the police didn't actually have one. So they had no right, legally, to create the situation that put them in danger and forced them to shoot the dogs.

And the fact that it was a scheme has already been determined. They've arrested the FedEx driver involved.

The purpose of a no-knock warrant is to either protect evidence against being destroyed (which seems unlikely with 32 pounds of marijuana) or to protect the police against an expectation of violence should they announce themselves (and if merely possessing pot creates that risk then we'll really have to just disagree).

It seems awfully circular to then claim that the protection against violence was the tool that created the violence that they had to protect themselves against.

And perhaps bring enough public pressure to bear on political forces to reform the abuse of no-knock warrants.

Just because there are people who abuse lawsuits doesn't mean there aren't cases where it's warranted (so to speak). The police f'ckd up big time. I don't fault an officer for pulling the trigger with dogs charging them. I do fault whomever made the decision to illegally break into someone's home.

I didn't mean they shouldn't... just that the loss of a member of your family is huge, and not something that a few grand in a lawsuit is going to rectify. Even a few million, while more on par with the loss, is not ever going to make up for the fact that two innocent dogs, who did exactly what they ought to do, lost their lives.

Sorry, I can't get over the loss of an innocent dog. That bugs me more than a human getting shot - a human at least has a chance to make a judgement call on how to behave in the presence of a police officer. The dogs don't stand a chance. This kind of thing makes me cry inside.

By the way I read some more articles, and the mayor is now saying that the cops shot the second dog as it was RUNNING AWAY. Grrrr.

That made me cringe a little bit.
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