By Doug Newman – email me
Follow me on Facebook.
Posted at Daily Paul.
And if you would like to post this elsewhere, please just link to this URL, as I update my articles frequently. Thanks!
____________________________________________________________
The same soullessness which characterizes North Korean border and prison guards is now metastasizing among American law enforcement authorities.
Dictionary.com defines “legalism” as: “strict adherence, or the principle of strict adherence, to law or prescription, especially to the letter rather than the spirit.”
This word comes to mind as a result of two tragic stories I have read recently.
In 2009, Wayne Ables of Cordova, Tennessee, was pulled over for expired tags by Deputy Micah McNinch of the Shelby County Sheriff’s Department. Ables was driving his 83-year-old mother to the hospital as she was having severe difficulty breathing.
McNinch called for an ambulance. According to this article: “After 11 minutes, the emergency vehicles arrived. The driver had pleaded with the officer to escort them to the hospital a mere five minutes away.”
Ables’ mother died there.
McNinch was suspended by the sheriff’s department for one day without pay.
Last Wednesday, at the corner of 21st Avenue and Federal Boulevard in northwest Denver, Harley, a 14-year old Labrador mix was hit by a car. This happened at 8:30. At 8:45, police called Animal Control, who did not arrive on the scene until 10 p.m.
In the meantime, while the cops just stood there and watched, Harley died.
Ross Knapp, a neighbor who tried to help the suffering and dying dog, was threatened with arrest.
Read what Harley’s owner had to say here. And also read here.
The risks we run when we entrust human and animal life to the state are often fatal. The police are the most dangerous segment of the state. And they do not even have to shoot a person or animal for their actions to bring about death.
And if you think the state truly cares about human or animal life, I leave you with this.
Food for the Thinkers
October 12, 2012|By John M. Glionna
In a case that has shocked Arizona animal activists, prosecutors have decided not to charge a Flagstaff police officer who in a gruesome incident this summer used his baton, boot and a cable to kill an injured dog after a fellow officer accidentally hit the animal with his car.
In August, Cpl. John Tewes was called after another officer hit a loose dog with his car about 2:30 a.m. Tewes and the other officer decided the dog needed to be euthanized, but Tewes was concerned about using his gun in the neighborhood.
Prosecutors said Tewes repeatedly tried to bludgeon the dog to death, but it didn’t die. He then tried to jump on the dog’s head and cave in its skull, but that too failed to kill the animal. Eventually, after some 20 to 30 minutes of trying to kill the dog, Tewes used a hobble, which is like a metal cable, to try to strangle the dog. It took several tries before the dog died.