Chicago police shot my dog, refused to give badge numbers

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hey kids,

sorry about the privacy setting thing. i thought i took care of that. should be ok now.

j

Yesterday we’re at our friend Clintina’s house for a BBQ. She has a fenced in back and front yard connected through a gangway. Shortly after dark Brick (the dog in question, and a Pit Bull) got out of the yard w/ his cousin Dolly (a Lab mix). We don’t know how they got loose. There are two gates between the back yard and the street. All the gates were closed previously but a neighbor is the prime suspect right now. Several minutes after they got loose, a neighbor rang the doorbell and told us they thought the dogs were loose. We rallied the troops to get out front to see what we could see, never suspecting there was any problem other than the fact that the dogs were not in the yard, and had maybe ran a few blocks away.

When we get out front, there are several police cars up the block, blocking off the street. The seven or eight of us are spread out up the block, some of us just getting down the stairs, some of us, including Mabel, are already at the scene when the cop decided it was time to shoot Brick. Half the block was there yelling at the cops, telling them who the dog belonged to, calling the dog by name, but they weren’t there to listen. They were just there to get their dicks hard.

One asshole from the block claimed Brick was attacking people. He said he saved his wife and two kids from Brick by TROWING THEM ON TOP OF A CAR. Obviously this was a lie, because there was no one else around who could show us that they had been attacked, or could explain the circumstances behind the alleged attack, and there were piles of witnesses who saw nothing happen other than brick walking down the street, with his cousin Dolly. I’m assuming that this asshole saw the dogs, and acting like a scared little bitch, ran away, prompting Brick to follow, thinking it was a game.

After the kids (Mabel, Nivia – Clintina’s daughter, Mason – Nivia’s cousin) were traumatized and bawling in the street like Boyz n the Hood, I took them inside. In the mean time, the other adults were outside with the neighbors and cops. The cops knew they fucked up right away, started lashing out at Clintina, Jennifer, and anyone else around who questioned them. They called Jennifer et al “stupid” and “idiots”. They refused to give their badge numbers, threatened to arrest everyone in site, and wouldn’t move their cars so that the dog could be brought to the emergency vet. They only interviewed people who claimed they saw Brick “attacking people”, none of whom live on the block (aside from the guy who “saved” his family). They were described to me as people who all live a few blocks away in public housing, and were probably just there to get involved for no reason other than that they didn’t have anything better to do. NO ONE with the opposite point of view, all of whom lived on the block, had a statement taken before the cops scurried off under the rock they came from. When Jennifer went to the cop shop on California (by Ronny’s) to file her report, she was treated like a piece of shit. The Sergeant she talked to, who admitted to being on the scene that night, literally wouldn’t even look at her. Just talked to her as a second thought while he stared at his computer. He claimed the report was closed, even though he was TYPING IT UP AS SHE SPOKE TO HIM, and was talking to other officers about it INFRONT OF HER. He then claimed he couldn’t add anything to it. A blatant lie, especially when a weapon was discharged.
Needless to say if we were in Wicker Park, none of this would have happened.

All in all folks, it was pretty fucked, and as I see it the terrorists win