Fwd: [Fortheanimals7] NC: UPD: Trooper Jones Kicks Police Dog 5Xs has Hearing to get job back

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this is digusting-this guy needs to be locked up-and

strung up and kicked...

--- melgraj2 wrote:

 

> Fortheanimals7 ,

> animalsneedusnow ,

> antifursociety

> melgraj2

> Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:18:34 EDT

> [Fortheanimals7] NC: UPD: Trooper Jones

> Kicks Police Dog 5Xs has Hearing to get job back

>

>

> FOR YOUR INFORMATION

>

>

> PLEASE CROSSPOST

>

>

> PHOTOS/VIDEO on below website

>

>

> The News & Observer

>

>

> Raleigh, North Carolina

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>

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/crime_safety/story/1052884.html

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> Published: Apr 28, 2008 10:32 AM

>

>

> Modified: Apr 28, 2008 05:16 PM

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>

> Video played of trooper kicking dog

>

>

> A hearing into the firing of a state trooper

> accused of mistreating his

> police dog opened this morning with a video of the

> officer kicking the

> dog as it was suspended from the railing of a

> loading dock.

>

>

> Sgt. Charles L. Jones

>

>

> Watch the video

>

>

> Should the trooper have been fired?

>

>

> BY DAN KANE, Staff Writer

>

>

> RALEIGH - A hearing into the firing of a state

> trooper accused of

> mistreating his police dog opened today with a

> video of the officer

> kicking the dog as it was suspended from the

> railing of a loading dock.

>

>

> The 15-second video, taken by another trooper using

> his cell phone,

> shows Sgt. Charles L. Jones kicking the dog, Ricoh,

> five times.

>

>

> The dog was tied to the railing by its leash at the

> time, with its front

> paws in the air and its rear paws touching the

> ground.

>

>

> With each kick, the dog swung about two feet under

> the dock.

>

>

> Altogether, Trooper Raymond Herndon testified, Jones

> kicked the dog up

> to eight times.

>

>

> The dog, a 7-year-old Belgian Malinois, was not

> seriously injured.

>

>

> Herndon said Jones was trying to get Ricoh to

> release a piece of fire

> hose that he was using as a toy.

>

>

> First, Jones swung the dog in a circle in a

> technique known as

> " helicoptering. "

>

>

> The dog was swung in such force that it became

> airborne.

>

>

> Herndon testified that he did not object to the

> helicoptering but did

> become concerned when Jones took Ricoh by the leash

> and suspended him

> from the railing.

>

>

> " He had his back to me, and he began kicking the

> dog, " Herndon said. He

> said he did not think Jones was trying

> intentionally to hurt the dog,

> and he praised Jones' skills as a dog trainer.

>

>

> A second video shows the dog, still hanging from the

> railing, wagging

> its tail and watching Jones, who picked up the toy.

>

>

> The dog appeared to remain loyal to Jones, Herndon

> said.

>

>

> " I think [Ricoh] wanted to go with [Jones], " he

> said.

>

>

> Jones claims the episode on Aug. 8 was not

> mistreatment.

>

>

> He contends that he was fired summarily without due

> process and has

> appealed to get his job back.

>

>

> In a deposition earlier this month, a senior

> officer with the patrol

> said that Gov. Mike Easley's office pressured the

> agency to fire Jones.

>

>

> Jones originally faced a three-day suspension,

> based on the first video.

>

>

> But patrol Captain Ken Castelloe, who was Internal

> Affairs director at

> the time, said he recommended firing Jones after

> reviewing the second

> video.

>

>

> He said it showed that Jones' actions were more

> egregious because he

> left the dog hanging after it had released the toy.

>

>

> Castelloe and Crime Control and Public Safety

> Secretary Bryan Beatty

> testified that Easley and his staff took an

> immediate interest in the

> case.

>

>

> Castelloe was ordered to show the video to several

> Easley staffers and

> Beatty testified that at least twice the governor's

> staff told him that

> Easley wanted Jones dismissed from the patrol.

>

>

> The patrol dismissed Jones in September, and Beatty

> upheld the firing.

>

>

> He and Castelloe said their actions were not

> influenced by Easley.

>

>

> Jones also contends that there were no clear

> training procedures within

> the patrol for police canines.

>

>

> He also said that Easley, Beatty and patrol

> officials were over-reacting

> to other pressures at the time, such as the dog

> abuse case that sent

> Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick to prison,

> and other cases of

> trooper misconduct within the patrol.

>

>

> The hearing is being conducted by Administrative

> Law Judge Fred

> Morrison.

>

>

> Jones is expected to testify, along with several

> Easley staff members.

>

>

> dan.kane

>

>

> OR

>

>

> (919) 829-4861

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