Even their dogs are better than you
So, a man walks by a police car. A K9 barks at him and startles him. He hurls expletives. The man is arrested and on $100,000 straight bond:
But at King’s arraignment, District Justice Gene Ricciardi put him in jail and set the bond.
“A police dog is a police officer. There is no difference under the law,” Ricciardi tells KDKA.
Well, the law probably wasn’t written with the fact that you’re a fucking retard in mind.
October 17th, 2007 at 9:26 am
It’s gotten a lot worse than any of us suspect. Even the judge is in on this one. 100K? That’s to keep this kid in jail, ruin his life and coerce him into accepting a plea deal from the prosecutor.
This kind of stuff is done all over the country. The police and courts are burning their credibility like old trash in a barrel.
October 17th, 2007 at 10:17 am
Officer mcgruff down!!!!!!
October 17th, 2007 at 10:49 am
If he truly has no criminal history, then some cops and a judge need to gain one themselves.
October 17th, 2007 at 10:51 am
To clarify, I think that setting bail that high on this sort of offense is a violation of due process — it is designed to be unobtainable and therefore is unlawful detention.
October 17th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Calling a dog an “officer” was started to get around search and seizure requirements … if you call a dog an “officer”, then the “officer” can use his nose without a warrant.
Other courts have struck down this crap. A dog is chattel … not a person.
October 17th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
If a police dog is killed, it is treated as the death of an officer.
I wonder if that enters their killed-in-the-line-of-duty statistics.
October 17th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
Citizen cusses out police dog, gets jailed. A cop shoots a resident’s dog chained in it’s own backyard and gets….NOTHING!
I’m in agreement with blackfork; “The police and courts are burning their credibility like old trash in a barrel.”
October 17th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
So how come the cop that killed his partner cop by leaving him a hot car didn’t face prison time for killing an officer of the law?
October 17th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
Nepotism raising its ugly head! I’ve often thought that the fellow in the blue suit was closely related to the dog in the back seat.
October 18th, 2007 at 9:33 am
Get used to it. With the direction our country is headed this is no surprise at all. The police state is here, and with even more law breaking officers that’s behavior is being considered acceptable. I watched Fox and Friends today and watched as a gentleman spoke of the problem of officers on steroids across the country. They say that they need the steroids so that they can bulk up and control situations when they are in a danger, but aren’t steroids bad? The controversy was over the fact that many police brutality cases and so on can be related back to roid rage on the officers part, but instead of the crucifying of athletes I thought they were going to blast the departments across the country about the abuse, but in the end they all said “I can see why officers would want to use steroids” (An illegal drug!). People are saying that they are burning their credibility like trash in a barrel, those folks haven’t taken part in the justice system in a while, as their credibility has been in decline for the past 10 years. “Justice System” should be the oxymoron of 2007…..
BT