On July 29, police burst into the home of Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo and immediately shot to death his two Labrador retrievers. They were there to conduct a search for drugs. The raid was conducted by county police narcotics officers and a sheriff's office SWAT Team.
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Photo: Stephen J Boitano / APThe police shot the dogs, while the dogs were running away from them. The dogs, Payton and Chase, were mild mannered innocent labs. BTW, the owner was innocent as well, the raid was a mistake. The police didn't actually even have a no-knock search warrant, but just busted in anyway.
Calvo insisted the couple's two black Labradors were gentle creatures and said police apparently killed them "for sport," gunning down one of them as it was running away.
"Our dogs were our children," said the 37-year-old Calvo. "They were the reason we bought this house because it had a big yard for them to run in."
The mayor, who was changing his clothes when police burst in, also complained that he was handcuffed in his boxer shorts for about two hours along with his mother-in-law, and said the officers didn't believe him when he told them he was the mayor. No charges were brought against Calvo or his wife, who came home in the middle of the raid.
Prince George's County Police Chief Melvin High said Wednesday that Calvo and his family were "most likely ... innocent victims," but he would not rule out their involvement, and he defended the way the raid was conducted. He and other officials did not apologize for killing the dogs, saying the officers felt threatened.
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The police illegally bust into someone's home that is completely innocent, and kill their poor dogs that are trying to get away from them, but they can't even bring themselves to apoligize?
Who is going to protect us from the police?
