Dupre is a disgusting PRICK. bbI hope you were not serious. If you were then most of the thing written about you in comments are true.

@ Pirate Jo,

Okay, I love dogs and all, but that last post of yours damn near gave me diabetes… had to go get an insulin shot just to post this…

@ dill

Yeah, I thought so… can’t come up with any proof that pit bulls – or any other big breed of dog, like Mastiffs or Rhodesian Ridgebacks, etc – attack unprovoked more than any other breed, so you resort to snark…

Whatever… guess we can thank God that you’re not in charge of anything… anything you deem “scary” would be banned, outlawed or taxed into oblivion…

@ Chicago

You sound like Chicken Lady BAWW-ing about her pet chicken she “rescued”…

Dude (assuming you are indeed a dude), I view humans as caretakers. The world is here for us to use – animals included. That means you use your head and have some damn respect. That do NOT mean you can or should torture the shit out of them or execute them because of some shit they might or might not do… and shit like bullfighting has to GO. That’s fucking barbaric.

As far as using them as a food source, nature is way, way more brutal and efficient than humans are. Ever see one of those nature shows where a pack of wolves chases down an elk, pulls it down and starts eating it while it’s still alive? Up Nawth, the snows were so deep that the deer were starving. Come spring, you could literally walk in the woods and see deer carcases hanging 20 feet up in a tree. They died of starvation and got caught in the branches. The snow melted, leaving them hanging there…

At least I – and hopefully other hunters – give the animal a quick, clean, honorable death – and it might seem hokey, but I actually thank the animal so that my family can eat. There’s respect there. And, since they won’t be needing their hide anymore, I use it for useful things. Almost every part of the animal is used. No trophy hunting here…

dogs today
your children tomorrow…
prepare accordingly

Better watch yer self dilligaf…

Aiyana Stanley-Jones surrounded by the Disney princesses that she adored. (Source: family photo)

DETROIT, MI — A Special Response Team shattered a family’s window in the middle of the night, hurled a flashbang onto a couch next to a sleeping girl, then charged in and shot her in the head. The hyper-aggressive tactics were made worse by the fact that police had taken it upon themselves to raid both sides of a duplex, when their suspect was only known to reside in one of them.

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On the evening of May 16, 2010, the Detroit Police Department’s Special Response Team (SRT) prepared for a surprise raid to arrest a wanted man. A surveillance unit had been monitoring the duplex in which he lived throughout the day and a no-knock raid was scheduled for just after midnight.

Police staged a so-called “safety briefing” shortly before the raid; undoubtedly focusing on their own safety rather than the safety of unknown innocents behind the doors they were about to kick in. Officers were briefed that they’d be entering a “possible dope den,” in which the suspect “might be armed” and might even possess “dangerous dogs.”

Police neglected to account for — or flatly disregarded — the safety of any potential children that might be present. Besides the glaring presence of toys strewn about the lawn and front porch, it is unlikely that investigators could have missed the presence of four young children and multi-generational family in the opposite unit during their surveillance of the duplex.

The raid commenced at roughly 12:40 a.m. The Special Response Team arrived in its armored vehicle with a warrant to arrest Chauncey Owens, who was known to stay with his fiancée at 4056 Lillibridge Street.

Armed with MP5 submachine guns, adrenaline, and an unhealthy fear for officer safety, the raiders shuffled past the toys that littered the front yard and ignored the two distinct street address signs hanging on either side of the shared porch of the multi-unit building; 4056 was on the left, 4054 was on the right.

The exterior of 4054-4056 Lillibridge Street, where police killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones during a botched raid. Note the toys in the yard and the prominently-displayed address signs. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

A man named Mark Robinson was detained on the sidewalk while walking his dog, just before the raid. He repeatedly told officers, “There are children in the house,” yet his warnings went unheeded. He was pinned to the ground with officers’ boots on his neck and back, reported attorney Geoffrey Fieger.

The raid team was accompanied by an embedded cable TV crew, filming for A&E’s “The First 48.” With full bravado, the SRT put on a display of maximum force for the fans of police-state-adoring reality television.

Without warning, officers simultaneously attempted to breach entrances of two discrete living units of the duplex: the suspects’ location and the neighboring residence. What occurred at 4054 Lillibridge — where the suspect did NOT live — would be devastating.

In mere seconds, masked police officers stormed the porch and smashed the window of the neighbors’ downstairs apartment. They immediately tossed in a concussion grenade and kicked down the door. An officer discharged his rifle, and an innocent little girl named Aiyana Stanley-Jones was dead.

Amateur footage shot from the exterior of the building shows how quickly the raid unfolded:

From the footage above, the following timeline can be assessed:

0:24 — A dog detects the presence of police and begins to bark.
0:27 — Police being shouting indiscernibly.
0:28 — An officer uses a bludgeon to shatter the picture window of Aiyana’s residence. A flashbang grenade is thrown in immediately.
0:29 — The flashbang explodes inside Aiyana’s residence, lighting up the porch.
0:33 — A pop can be heard; presumably the fatal gunshot.
When the smoke cleared, 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones was found on the couch, covered with blood, with a gunshot to the head. She had been sleeping on the couch next to her grandmother, Mertilla Jones. A mere 3 seconds passed from the time of the first shouts until officers entered the home. Aiyana was shot in six seconds.

The grenade had fallen directly onto the couch, where it scorched Aiyana’s “Hannah Montana” blanket, and caused Ms. Jones to dive for the floor.

Officer Joseph Weekley poses in his department issued mask and SWAT outfit. (Source: WXYZ-TV)

The moment a flashbang grenade exploded inside Aiyana Stanley-Jones’ living room.

The trigger man was 37-year-old Officer Joseph Weekley, who both drove the armored personnel carrier and led the team through Jones’s door. Wielding a ballistic shield and an MP5, the 14-year DPD veteran claimed that he lost control of his weapon, but not for the reason one would expect. He blamed Aiyana’s grandma.

Officer Weekley’s novel defense was that Mertilla Jones rose up as he entered the apartment and “reached for his gun.” In his version of events, contact with grandmother caused him to pull the trigger of his submachine gun, subsequently striking the sleeping girl.

Mertilla Jones gave a very different account. She said that she had been dozing in and out of sleep on the couch when she was startled by the shattering of glass and the deafening incendiary device hurled through the window. Ms. Jones claims she reached to protect her granddaughter and made no contact with any officer, according to the Detroit Free Press.

“They blew my granddaughter’s brains out,” said Ms. Jones. “They killed her right before my eyes. I watched the light go out of her eyes.”

Officer Weekley was no stranger to controversy. Previously during his six years on the Special Response Team, he had been named among several officers in a federal lawsuit regarding no-knock raid in which officers aimed rifles at small children and shot two family pets in 2007.

In addition to Aiyana, three other children were in the house at the time: Carlos (age four), Pierre (age two), and Christian (age three months). The capacity for mistakes in such a household was monumental.

Charles Jones recoils in despair after his little girl was shot in the head by police. (Photo: Mandi Wright / Detroit Free Press)

The blood-stained couch where Aiyana Stanley-Jones was killed by police.
(Source: Abayomi Azikiwe)

Aiyana’s parents, Charles Jones and Dominika Stanley, were sleeping nearby and rushed toward the sound of the loud noise and tragic screams. Mr. Jones was forced to lie on the floor, face-down in his daughter’s blood and shards of broken glass.

“Her blood was everywhere and I was trying to stay calm, but nobody would talk to me. None of them even tried to console me,” Mr. Jones told The Detroit News. “I’ll never be the same.”

Ms. Stanley testified similarly that she was forced to sit on the couch spattered with her daughter’s blood for hours while police detained the family at the scene.

Mertilla Jones was not initially detained, despite the claim that she supposedly tried to steal Officer Weekley’s weapon. Before the night was over, however, police decided to cuff her and hauled her down to Detroit Receiving, where she was tested for drugs in her system and later for gunshot residue on her skin. She sorrowfully recalled being detained for at least 8 hours, away from her family on perhaps the most traumatic day of their lives.

The family says it took hours for them to be shown a warrant — not until “about 4 or 5 a.m., as they were driving away” (more on the warrant later).

The actual homicide suspect was arrested in the apartment upstairs without incident.

DISTORTING THE FACTS

One of the major deceptions permeating the coverage of this case was the notion that Aiyana lived in the same residence as the subject of the search warrant. This was plainly false, as the building was a duplex with separate units, not connected internally whatsoever.

This diagram provided by attorney Geoffrey Fieger demonstrates how police raided two separate entrances of two separate living units. (AP Photo / Geoffrey Fieger)

Attorney Geoffrey Fieger, who represented Aiyana’s family, stressed during a press conference that various facts were being distorted by the police and media.

“[Police] were going into both doors,” Mr. Fieger said. “The upstairs flat is on the left. Aiyana’s flat — where I want to stress that Mr. Chauncy Owens did not reside, never resided, never stayed — is on the right.”

Furthermore, police charged into the raid with an improper warrant to search both units, Mr. Fieger asserted. After improperly raiding both living units, police went back and covered their mistake by acquiring a retroactive search warrant for the second half. The official story glossed over that detail.

Feiger explained: “In the video they break into both the upstairs flat and the downstairs flat. The problem is they don’t have a warrant for the upstairs. (Assistant Police Chief Ralph Godbee) didn’t tell you when he got the second search warrant. After Aiyana was killed and after he broke into the upstairs apartment and arrested (the suspect).”

Another falsehood was the department’s claim that Aiyana was shot in the neck. In fact, Aiyana was shot in the top of the skull, with the bullet exiting through the bottom of her chin, then grazing her chest.

The third, and most dubious claim, was the story that Aiyana’s grandmother tried to grab the officer’s gun and caused it to fire, under no fault of Officer Weekley. The district attorney’s office did not find the officer’s story credible and charged him with felony involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a firearm causing death.

REALITY TV STAR

America’s fetish with the police state may have indirectly played a role in the unnecessary, hyper-aggressive tactics employed against Aiyana and in other situations in Detroit. Author William N. Grigg astutely observed the following:

Ofc. Joseph Weekly poses with a department-issued grenade launcher. (Source: A&E)

The truly sickening thing about the death of Aiyana Jones is that the decision to carry out a SRT raid was almost certainly dictated by the media ambitions of Detroit Police Chief Warren Evans, who — in the words of Detroit News columnist Charlie LeDuff — is positioning himself as a “reality TV” star.

“Television executives around the country have been shown what is known in television parlance as the `sizzle reel’ of Chief Evans himself, a video compilation of Detroit’s top cop trying to take back the streets,” writes LeDuff, who saw that footage several weeks ago. “It is part of a pitch for a full-blown television series.”

As Detroit’s civic and economic implosion accelerates, the city has become an irresistible setting for state-centric media outlets “peddling mayhem,” continues LeDuff. “Spike TV featured the Detroit bureau of the Drug Enforcement Administration in 2008. A&E is taping a season of `Parking Wars’ here; production on a series about the Fire Department wrapped late last year. Even Animal Planet is in on the deal with `Animal Cops Detroit.’”

Joseph Weekley had himself been featured numerous times on various Detroit-based police reality shows. His cop nickname was “Brain.”

WEEKLEY’S 1ST TRIAL

At the June 2013 trial, Joseph Weekley’s defense stuck with the argument that the victim’s grandmother was to blame for his sloppy weapons-handling.

Officer Joseph Weekley makes excuses for his pathetic trigger discipline during his trial. (Photo: David Coates)

“She hit it in a downward motion,” Weekley said of his submachine gun during testimony at his first trial, according to the Associated Press. “As she hits it down, I start to pull it back. I hear the shot.”

Weekley’s defense argued that he should not be scapegoated for behavior linked to the missteps of his bosses. His attorney, Steve Fishman, said in court filings that Weekley “had nothing to do with the planning of the raid and was merely a police officer assigned to a certain position … by a superior officer.” He argued that his client should not be deemed responsible for the “ineptitude of the officer assigned to deploy” the flashbang.

Aiyana’s grandmother was the key witness at the trial. Her testimony marked the fifth day of the emotional testimonies.

“That’s what I figured all of them was there to do — to murder. They came to kill, and they killed a 7-year-old,” Mertilla Jones testified. Breaking down sobbing, she described the raid, saying “their arm was pointed at Aiyana’s head. They pulled the trigger. Blood started coming out of her mouth. She was dead.”

The jury was then excused for about 15 minutes.

Prosecutor Rob Moran closed his argument by emphasizing that Weekley’s story was fabricated to cover for gross negligence.

“It didn’t happen. It did not happen,” Moran stressed, arguing the implausibility of Mertilla Jones rushing for the door in mere seconds after the window broke.

“All he had to do was keep his finger off the trigger,” Moran pointed out, which is among the most elementary of firearms safety rules.

In the end, the jury was hung, and Wayne County Circuit Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway declared it to be a mistrial.

WEEKLEY’S 2ND TRIAL

Officer Joseph Weekley stood trial for a second time in September 2014. This time the more serious charge of manslaughter was dismissed, and Weekley’s trial revolved around the charge of careless or reckless firing of a weapon causing death, which carries a potential 2 year prison sentence.

Prosecutor Rob Moran again poked holes in the police narrative. If Mertilla Jones grabbed for Weekley’s gun, as the officer alleged, then why did it take hours for police to place her in handcuffs, he asked. Wouldn’t police detain and arrest her immediately?

The prosecution also showed using forensic evidence that Mertilla Jones’ fingerprints were not among those found on Weekley’s gun.

Jurors ultimately deadlocked in a 7-5 split in favor of acquittal and could not agree about whether Weekley was negligent or not. Deliberations went on for four days.

Judge Hathaway again declared it to be a mistrial in October 2014 when no unanimous verdict could be reached. At this point, prosecutors could either attempt a third trial, or decline to proceed with further prosecution.

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Aiyana Stanley-Jones beams before slicing into her birthday cake. (Source: family photo)

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The Magic Conch knows all!!!!

I believe most dogs accused of crimes were set up by the cat. Never trust a cat.
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They will screw the pooch EVERY time.

By the way… I found the Naked Chicks aren’t that hot image…
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My Maggie my. I like naked chicks.

When I saw “friendly pets….kissing noises” I thought Billah had tol the story about when we kidnapped our neighbor’s schnoodle and made it lick peanut butter Billah’d smeared where the sun don’t shine.

Greetings,

I believe that we can all agree that we are being occupied by a hostile foreign force. Under these conditions, it only makes sense that we combat this by setting up alternative/parallel institutions. We should begin by setting up our own schools and, more importantly, our own courts. With the system as it stands, the family that owned these dogs will never see any real justice.

The policeman and those that covered up his criminal activities must be held to account and if the system the occupiers have will not do so then, perhaps, it is time we consider a different path.

I know that this site is a place where unfettered debate takes place. No holds barred. However,Billy has gone over the line by making fun of Sponge Bob and Patrick.

It’s actually comical that billy will pontificate that there is no proof of pitbulls attacking unprovoked over any other breed when there is a gazillion stats to prove otherwise, the least of which is 700 US cities enacting breed specific bans on the piece of shit dogs or the documented fact they have killed/maimed more people than any other dog breed period, but I guess in Billy’s Sponge Bob world view all of those deaths were because people were taunting the dog, even the little babies and children who became pitbull Alpo instigated their own attacks, we all know how aggressive a cooing baby can be.

Like the women in this link and the 100’s of other incidents like it, I guess it was her fault for walking. We all know it would of been the same outcome had she been confronted by golden labs, eh Billy?

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-owner-pit-bulls-mauled-woman-sentencing-20141003-story.html

There is even stats to prove the owners of pits are mostly of a criminal element or just plain fucked in the head.

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From an article titled “are pitbulls dangerous”

Fans of pit bulls are quick to assert that a dog’s propensity for attack depends in large part on its owner and how it is raised, and there’s considerable evidence that owners of pit bulls and other high-risk dogs are themselves high-risk people.

A 2006 study from the Journal of Interpersonal Violence revealed that owners of vicious dogs were significantly more likely to have criminal convictions for aggressive crimes, drugs, alcohol, domestic violence, crimes involving children and firearms.

These findings were confirmed in a 2009 report published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences. The authors of that report wrote, “Vicious dog owners reported significantly more criminal behaviors than other dog owners,” and they were ranked “higher in sensation seeking and primary psychopathy.”

And a 2011 study, also in the Journal of Forensic Sciences, found that “vicious dog owners reported significantly higher criminal thinking, entitlement, sentimentality and super-optimism tendencies. Vicious dog owners were arrested, engaged in physical fights, and used marijuana significantly more than other dog owners.”
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Frankly, I don’t know which is worse, pitbulls, pitbull sympathizers, or the dumb shit owners of pitbulls that are either grossly misinformed about the shit breed they own or are on the other side of the equation, they know exactly what they own and get their rocks off by owning a vicious dog. They probably also beat up their old lady and kids to prove how manly they are, birds of a feather, err, I mean, aggressive assholes of a feather…..

“It’s actually comical that billy will pontificate that there is no proof of pitbulls attacking unprovoked over any other breed when there is a gazillion stats to prove otherwise, the least of which is 700 US cities enacting breed specific bans on the piece of shit dogs or the documented fact they have killed/maimed more people than any other dog breed period” — Dan

Okay Dan.

My original statement, that being: “If your justification is that pit bulls are more prone to unprovoked attacks – ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL AND THE DOG HASN’T BEEN ABUSED IN ORDER TO MAKE IT FIGHT HARDER IN ILLEGAL DOG FIGHTS – then by all means, present your data.”

So, following my original statement, let’s see some of those “gazillion stats”. Because all you’ve offered so far – hysterical knee-jerk reactionism in the face of assholes abusing dogs to make them fight harder in illegal dogs fights – isn’t getting any traction. The dickheads abusing the dogs to make them meaner are the goddamned problem, NOT the dogs. Then they either dump them somewhere, and then they attack someone, and some mush-head like you believes that they’re more prone to unprovoked attacks because that’s their nature…

And a couple second or third hand quotes from some newspaper does NOT count as “proof”.

““Vicious dog owners reported significantly more criminal behaviors than other dog owners,” and they were ranked “higher in sensation seeking and primary psychopathy.” – LA Times. Gee, ya fuckwit, ya think that the criminal psychopaths who own dogs just MIGHT abuse them? Jeezus… use your head for something else other than a buttplug…

Let’s see an unbiased study from a good source on unprovoked dog attacks on humans, where the dog hasn’t been abused, mistreated or fought in an illegal dog fight.

You and dildogaf should get a room…