Charges dropped in Katrina dog killings
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BATON ROUGE, La., Jan. 25 Animal cruelty charges have been dropped against two New Orleans-area sheriff's deputies who shot stray dogs in the days after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Attorney General James Caldwell, Louisiana's new attorney general, said there was not enough evidence to prosecute Michael Minton, a former sheriff's deputy in St. Bernards Parish, and Clifford "Chip" Englande, a sergeant.
Minton and Englande were taped by a photographer for the Dallas Morning News as they patrolled St. Bernards Parish. One sequence shows the men driving away, leaving a mortally wounded black Labrador retriever on the street.
The men acknowledged shooting dogs, saying that they wanted potentially dangerous animals off the street and that they also wanted to spare the dogs painful deaths from hunger and thirst.
The case was investigated by former Attorney General Charles Foti.
Two other attempts by Foti to prosecute people for decisions made in the chaos after the hurricane fizzled. A grand jury refused to indict a doctor who allegedly gave lethal doses of medication to dying hospital patients, while the owners of a nursing home where patients drowned were acquitted. Copyright 2008 by UPI
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sbp pet murders
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janice king ,
Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:53:39 GMT
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regardless of who pulled the trigger, those responsible for the killings were the sbp deputies who accepted the taxpayers property. they were duty bound to protect that property. they failed miserably
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Katrina Dog Killings
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Charlotte Jones ,
Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:04:53 GMT
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This case needs to be reopened since a witness to the school shootings has appeared.
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St. Bernard killing of dogs
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Giselle Moises ,
Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:13:12 GMT
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No excuse for the cruel & unnecessary killings of those innocent animals. I too am a Katrina victim. I remained behind. Those ignorant,idiots: Minton & Englade used the animals as target practice for their own pleausre. St. Bernard parish was always known as a parish of cruel & low educated people. Only a handful of good people exist in that parish. Minto & Englade should suffer in the same manner they had those animals suffer. The video speaks for itself. Attorney General Caldwell is just another "good ole boy" protecting personal interests. Giselle Moises(New Orleans)
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Katrina dog shootings
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Marius Peregrine ,
Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:00:25 GMT
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Not mentioned in the Times-Picayune article: Most of the dogs were shot in the gut, the hindquarters, the face... 'Humane'? I think not.
What I would like to do to these gentlemen (and, as a Gulf War veteran, I certainly could) is highly illegal and therefore will not be done. I'd settle for measures designed to keep them from breeding. (Did you know that one of the officers has a wife? How can she stand it?)
I am glad Congress has since passed a law requiring any locality desiring federal emergency aid to have an evacuation plan in place that provides for peoples' pets. But, needless to say, I will never--*never*--trust anyone, least of all any authority, with the safety and welfare of my animals except myself. And if said authority tries to evacuate me at gunpoint without my pets, they'd better have brought a body-bag...
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Katrina Dog Killing murders
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Melody Halligan ,
Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:00:00 GMT
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Attorney General James "Buddy" Caldwell and his office are totally responsible for dropping the charges against Minton and Englande.
And WE KNOW it's not about a case being dropped for insufficient evidence, [because there is plenty of evidence]. This is not only a travesty, it's an outrage of injustice by crooked politicians, ONCE AGAIN! WE MUST DEMAND JUSTICE for these innocent kindred friends, and continue to fight the fine fight until proper justice is given and the criminal(s)are put in jail for some years. Remember these animals were beloved family pets that were murdered.
It takes a very very sick individual to assert his power by abusing the defenseless. And it takes a diseased system to justify and permit this.
As long as a culture deems particular beings to be of less worth,it will then allow for violence against those beings. This is the root of all social injustice.
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Travesty of Justice for Murdered Katrina Pets, St.Bernard Parish, LA
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Netanya Nathan ,
Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:33:33 GMT
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The coldhearted shootings of these dogs, and cats as well, was an act of blatant animal cruelty. Notes were scratched on walls by guardians/owners of these terrified animals, "Please don't shoot my dog, with identification info. matching collars." Compassionate, civilized human beings should write, speak out for the opening of this case, and the prosecution of these so-called law enforcement officers who brutally, and in for the most part, sloppily shot dogs in body cavities, causing prolonged, agonizing deaths. Video was taken of a pitiful, wounded dog, limping after the truck of killers leaving the scene of the shootings...this dog still hoped for kindness and rescue from these murderers. He, along with the others, were left to suffer an agonizing death. What a betrayal to "Man's Best Friends", who were left behind to the whims of a brutal law enforcement system - Obviously, there is no friend for animals in government here!
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