Cop kills dog during sex offender compliance check at wrong home.
Officer James Freeman of Greenbrier, AR was doing a sex offender compliance check on private property when the homeowner’s dog barked at him. So Freeman shot the dog. The event would be an example of how mean some of the officers doing compliance checks can be to people on the registry and their families, but it was just made worse by the fact that the idiot went to the wrong home.
The below video shows the aftermath of the tragedy.
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It could just as easily have been a kid legally target practicing in his own yard. Or it could have been the home owner gunned down if he happened to be legally carrying a hand gun and the cop overreacted. Undoubtedly, this officer had hoped to inflict psychological punishment on a registered sex offender by murdering his dog. Same reason some cops repeatedly pull over an offender driving his car. Pretty hard for a sex offender to prove harassment because society has been poisoned against us.
Gerald
Fortunately (I Think) there is so much crime in my area officers do not have time to pull off someone just because they are on the registry. I have only been stopped once in 20 years and I was speeding but still talked my way out of a ticket, even though he mentioned the registry, “ONLY” after running my license.
I have however, been stopped over 100 times when not driving for supposedly being in a place I am not supposed to be. Like taking my grandson to a playground. I guess they ran all the license plates in the parking lot and got a hit. The longest I got detained was 1.2 hours.
Honestly i think you are a fake and do not sound like an ex offender !
I dont think you have the right to say yoy were where you should not have been ,,,the Law is in Violation of Civil and Constitutional rights to live and be free, do not give me BS about rules, Regulations, Once a person paid debt to Society its OVER, GOT IT, END OF ARGUMENT, NO IFS ANDS AND BUTS !!!
Stop the Non Sense,,,the Y S. has No PRE-CRIME UNITS…IT IS ILLEGAL TO HARASS, BULLY, INTIMIDATE, BRAND, LABEL TRACK ALL PEOPLE !!….THE GOV IS WRONG !…The Gov. Has not proven the people on the Registry are Dangerous !!
Thank You !
He is not a fake. People need to understand that enforcement of registry laws varies tremendously all over the country. My experience in Michigan is likely far different than what a Florida registrant deals with. It even varies from one part of the state to another. It’s one of the things that makes me reluctant to travel. It’s one of the things that makes the registry so unfair. There is no uniformity of law enforcement. When I was on parole 4 years ago, I asked my parole agent if he could give me a map of the city showing school exclusion zones. Nope. Couldn’t even get some guidance as simple as that.
Gerald
Thanks for sticking up for me but I was not worried. I wish a 1000s wishes that I was NOT on the registry. I pray a 1000 prayers.
Expanding on what you were saying, each cop is different even in the same city. I have been harassed by one cop to the point I felt like going to jail by just knocking the smirk off his face.
A month or so later in the same city, another cop will run my tag, come over and speak with me and just ask me to leave nicely.
Mind blowing
Bill
You caught me redhanded. The years I spent on the registry since 1997 have all been a big lie and a dream I made up. My family are also liars and the pain I put my parents and family through is also a big imagination station created by MGM for a movie .
You have the right to say whatever you want but I have been on F.A.C now for several years and I think if I was a fake, someone would have caught on by now.
Fighting each other is JUST what the other side wants. Sorry I am not as radical as you but I have a family to protect.
On a closing note, I wish nothing but blessings, peace and relief for all of us on the registry. Not exclusively but especially for those of us sentenced before a registry was even a thought in someone’s mind. If I had, had a choice and there had been a registry on the table at sentencing, I would have told the judge where she could have put her robe.
Of course he was.
We don’t need to defund the police we just need to take there guns away from them. They obviously don’t know what there for.
Now this is a good cop. We need more cops willing to come on to strangers properties and kill dogs. What I love most is because it’s a so called “good faith” mistake, he will walk away like it never happened.
When I grow up I want to be a cop. Because I can do what ever I want as long as I say it’s in good faith. Long live qualified immunity.
But isn’t there the “Dumbass Exclusion” to the “Good faith” argument??
(If he grabbed a clearly marked gas container from the back of his truck and poured it on a fire, would the court really accept “Oh, I thought it was water.” as an excuse??)
Sad to say but that dog’s owner has gotten a taste of what’s it like to live as a Registrant. If more people experienced this they would not be so gung-ho about the Registry.
It is only speculation, but I suspect the homeowner would have been less upset if the cop had shot the SO. It is also no surprise that the cop was cleared. Most likely qualified immunity would apply to a civil suit because there is no clear precedent regarding shooting a dog on the wrong property while doing a compliance check. Sorry, but my cynicism is showing.
Update: The officer was cleared of any wrongdoing last night.
Of course he was. Obviously, the wrongdoing was done by the registrant whose compliance was being checked.
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Believe it or not, I imagine many readers were actually thinking the same thing, which shows how warped popular thinking has become these days.
Uh – has anyone seen John Wick?
No surprise the “officer” was cleared of any wrong doing.
I am sick to my stomach.
Wow just wow. Cleared for HIS mistake? Goes to the wrong house and kills someone’s dog and it is ok? Law enforcement has achieved too much power. I think a civil lawsuit against the department is in order. You can’t get out of that one.
And I agree, this is what we face every day of our lives. But again, the registry is not punishment? Is was for a dog that even IF it was the right house, there was no reason to shoot that dog.
On a side not, I do not know what kind of relationship he had with his neighbor that was on the registry, but sure that will make the family hate him even more, partially blaming him for living next to him ( Yes just an opinion )
If a doctor accidentally operated on the wrong person or accidentally operated on someone’s spleen instead of his kidney ,you would be looking at a multi million dollar law suit. Why is it cops can make all the mistakes they want with no accountability. It’s just brushed off as well it was a accident.
They need to be held to the same standards as everyone else. Or pay the consequences.
Exactly my thought. They will blame the sex offender for living in the neighborhood.
FAC…who ‘cleared’ this Canine Killer? The State Attorney General?
His internal investigations dept