WHAT? "Man Beaten by Sheriff's Deputies After Stolen Horse Pursuit"

[KellyG]

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From this article

So he’s a wife-beating, puppy-murdering horse thief. Can’t work up a whole lot of outrage over what happened to him.

I can’t imagine how he didn’t get shot by the police during the prior domestic call.[/QUOTE]

I just can’t think that breaking the law is really the best way to uphold the law. Sure the guys a MF-ing dumb-a$$…but the police do not look like fine, upstanding LEO.

I fully support officers and the job they have to do…but this is inexcusable.

[Sunwhinnies]

Just being the kind of person I am, you touch my animals in any negative way and you’ll regret it. Puppies, horses, you name it.

So a teeeeeny part of me, when thinking of someone stealing my horse thinks, ‘damn @$$hole, I’d do the same to you’. (In theory anyway.)

However this is totally unacceptable that the very men (in this case), who are there to enforce the law, instead become judge and jury. This makes me wonder how many cases from back in the pre camera days, might have had a different outcome.

It just makes me sad. I realize being in law enforcement must be an incredibly difficult job. But there are so many troubling cases. Don’t know what the answer is. Bad guys stop being bad and police start living up to the high standards we have of them.

I butcher the saying, ‘you are who you really are when no one is looking’.

[Rosem]

From the article http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-san-bernardino-deputies-kick-man-pursuit-20150409-story.html

Not defending the man but ‘allegedly’ shot a puppy would need to be put into more context. And the allegedly bothers me either he did or he did not.

Was it an aggressive neighbors dog that is constantly getting out and terrorizing the kids? The family puppy? Injured beyond saving? Or my personal fav - The too aggressive for a pet, half grown bad tempered mongrel dog that is driven up to the high desert from the inner city and set loose to survive in the wild - Newsflash - They don’t.
It isn’t nice to force the people who live in the high desert to listen to Fluffy getting ripped apart by coyotes at ten o’ clock that same night either.

As for the video, who made these police think they were judge and jury? That attitude of unaccountability had to come from somewhere.

As someone else said now the guy will probably walk and if he did do something illegal it will go unpunished. Also this area used to have a lot of Meth floating around so He may actually be a bad guy being set free because the cops could not contain themselves.

Thanks Officers Friendly (sarcasem)

[Foxtrot_s]

When my son chased down a person who had robbed his house clean, caught him and gave him a bit of a thumping while he took him down, he was warned in no uncertain terms that he may get charged. These guys, through a certain police protection code, will probably walk. My son did not get charged…and he was on his own property.

[BehindTheBit]

here is an update on horse

http://deepcreekhotsprings.net/dchs/forum/read.php?1,24897,24904#msg-24904

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I hiked to Deep Creek yesterday. As I started hiking I saw a police helicopter circling the Freedom Trail parking area, and I heard sirens from two police vehicles. Later when I finally made it to DCHS, having to go in a round a bout way because of all the police activity on the Freedom and Bowen trail, if I remember it correctly, a long time local who was at the springs, was earlier at the Freedom Trail when the guy came in his vehicle to that area, exiting it somewhere there, then he ran down to the springs, where another young couple who were soaking in the Womb saw the individual come running out of the bushes just west of the beach where your cross the creek. He then saw the horse and took it.

The horse belonged to a long time friend of mine Dan ( some of you regulars may very well have seen him there before ) who has been going to DCHS for about 40 years. The individual crossed the creek on the horse, went west on the PCT, then up the Bradford Ridge, and people at the springs recalled seeing him riding up the ridge, and said it looked like a movie. He then rode up further closer to HWY 173. During the hunt for the suspect a police chopper landed on the beach above the AZ pool and let out officers who hiked in the direction of where the man had gone. Dan as told to me by his brother this afternoon, after yelling at the man not to take his horse, put on his boots, red undershorts and his cowboy hat and went off up the mountain chasing after the man.

Dan did get close to the man on the horse later at one point and was going to try and get him at one spot, then officers who were in the area spotted Dan and thought he was the suspect and made Dan lay on the ground and they handcuffed him. Dan explained that the suspect was 30 years old, and Dan is early 50’s, and Dan told them it was his horse he was trying to get back. You see in the video what occurred when they caught up with the suspect. Dan did get his horse back and rode all the way back to the springs, soaked a conversed with some visitors a bit, then he went off up the Bowen Ranch Rd and back the way he goes home. A long arduous day for Dan! Finally later in the day when things settled down I finally got in a nice relaxing soak in the Serenity Pool smiling smiley I guess from now on Dan will have to set the security alarm on his horse winking smiley

[WildandWickedWarmblo]

Glad the horse and owner are OK.

One of the wildandwickedwarmbloods would have dumped the horse thief. The other wildandwickedwarmblood would have fainted having to go over that terrain. Probably would have fainted and fallen on the horse thief and squashed him.

[Foxtrot_s]

One of the WWW’s is a bit of a sissy, eh?