{"id":5254,"date":"2016-12-29T01:01:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T01:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=5254"},"modified":"2016-12-29T01:01:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T01:01:02","slug":"federal-court-rules-police-can-shoot-a-barking-or-moving-dog-while-entering-a-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=5254","title":{"rendered":"Federal Court Rules Police Can Shoot a Barking or Moving Dog While Entering a Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_18_0_4_1482972914179_4034\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.5px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'>A federal court in Grand Rapids, Michigan,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>ruled that police can shoot a dog<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>while entering a home if the animal \u201cmoves or barks\u201d in the officer\u2019s presence.<\/p>\n<p style='margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.5px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'>The decision is the final step in a case brought to court by Mark and Cheryl Brown of Battle Creek, whose pit bull was killed while officers were executing a search warrant on their home in 2013.<\/p>\n<p style='margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.5px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'>The couple claimed that officers \u201cunlawfully seized their property in violation of the Fourth Amendment when officers shot and killed two dogs while executing a search warrant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style='margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.5px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'>An officer testified that he shot the first dog when it appeared to move \u201ca few inches\u201d and lunged at him. The dog fled to the basement, where the officer shot and killed it. Court documents reveal that another officer killed the second dog after it too ran to the basement and barked at the officers.<\/p>\n<p style='margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.5px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'>Judge Eric Clay\u2019s decision ruled that the Browns failed to provide evidence that the first dog did not lunge at police and that the second dog did not bark.<\/p>\n<p style='margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.5px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'>\u201cGiven the totality of the circumstances and viewed from the perspective of an objectively reasonable officer, the dog poses an imminent threat to the officer\u2019s safety,\u201d the ruling reads. \u201cThe standard we set out today is that a police officer\u2019s use of deadly force against a dog while executing a search warrant to search a home for illegal drug activity is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment when \u2026 the dog poses an imminent threat to the officer\u2019s safety.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal court in Grand Rapids, Michigan,&nbsp;ruled that police can shoot a dog&nbsp;while entering a home if the animal \u201cmoves or barks\u201d in the officer\u2019s presence. 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