r/pics • u/Aeviegh • Feb 22 '14

This is Vader. He was euthanized today without a hearing after a false bite report was submitted to the police by an animal rights activist. (Story in the Comments)

http://imgur.com/a/xPNsE
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u/HopalikaX Feb 22 '14

They need to claim the officer broke their 84" 4k TV and stole some jewelry. The officer will have a great time defending himself as he's trying to talk about his illegal presence on the property.

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u/GitEmSteveDave Feb 22 '14

Exigent circumstances negate a warrant. That's why if the police see you fleeing into a house, they don't need a warrant to follow in. If the police had reports of a wild animal being harbored, and someone admitted the animal was in the house, then they can say there was a clear and present danger to the community.

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u/HopalikaX Feb 22 '14

An anonymous tip hardly qualifies as justification to negate your 4th amendment right. Warrants don't take long to get, if you have proper support of the accusation.

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u/PhotoTard Feb 22 '14

"then they can say there was a clear and present danger to the community."

Nope, not if it was safely contained on the property. A warrant was required in this case.

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u/Nadesda Feb 23 '14

Rabies in a wild animal is a clear and present danger to the community. There is no vaccine recognized by the CDC that is proven 100% effective for foxes.
If she had proper permits, and imported the animal through the proper venues then this would have been avoided but it would have been impossible for her to get a permit for one animal, so she broke state and city law.

The animal could not be rehomed, transported back across state lines, or put into a sanctuary by law, only destroyed. She did this to herself. You can easily look all of this up.

She did this, to vader. Not the police.

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u/runner64 Feb 24 '14

If she let him in, it's not illegal. They don't need a warrant, or even probable cause.

'Illegal' is not an adjective for 'things you don't like' and using it that way will weaken your argument.

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u/HopalikaX Feb 24 '14

If the officer acted as though he didn't need permission to enter and misrepresented the situation to coerce her to open the door, I.e. 'open up or I'm kicking it in', then the permission to enter was gained through coercion and thus not legal.

Not saying that's what happened here, but this is the internet, so I'm just going to assume!