Austin, Texas Police Officer sent to the wrong address for a domestic disturbance, Guns Down Family Dog "Cisco" for no valid reason
(NationalDogPress.us) Austin, Texas, 14 Apr 12
On April 14, 2012 my best friend, Cisco, a Blue Heeler, was gunned down by an APD officer that was at the wrong address of a domestic disturbance call.
I was in my backyard, playing frisbee with my dog, Cisco. When I went to get something from my truck in the driveway, I was met by Officer Griffin, who pulled out his gun and told me to put my hands in the air. Cisco came out of the yard behind me and started barking when he saw the officer. Unable to restrain Cisco because I was being held at gunpoint, I told Officer Griffin that Cisco would not hurt him and begged that he not shoot him. The officer shot and killed Cisco anyway.
My dog didn't deserve to be shot. He deserved better. I believe the people of the City of Austin deserve better.
Cisco's death is a tragedy that cannot be undone, but justice can be served. Please sign this petition asking that APD Officer Griffin, who showed no remorse for wrongfully killing Cisco, be held accountable.
The Austin Police Department also needs to take steps to make sure officers don't kill any other innocent dogs by improving training and adopting a policy that only allows the use of lethal force on animals as a last resort.
Michael's dog was shot dead by a police officer for no valid reason
The last thing Michael Paxton expected on Saturday was to be held at gunpoint by a police officer in his own driveway while his dog, Cisco, was fatally shot a few feet away.
It had been a quiet afternoon -- Michael and Cisco were spending the day relaxing and playing frisbee in the yard -- until Michael stepped into his driveway and was suddenly confronted by an Austin police officer who drew his gun. Four seconds later, Michael's dog was shot dead.
The worst part is that Cisco hadn't done anything wrong and neither had Michael: the police officer was at the wrong address.
After a massive outcry on Facebook, Austin Police Chief Acevedo apologized to Michael and the officer was temporarily pulled from the streets. But Michael wants to make sure this never happens to anyone else. That's why he's asking the Austin Police Department to change its policies on the use of deadly force against animals.
Click here to sign Michael's petition calling for better training and policies for officers confronting animals.
Michael still can't understand why the police officer drew his gun on him, or why his dog was killed. But this doesn't have to be the end of the story. After 7,000 people signed a petition on Change.org in the wake of a similar shooting last year, the police department in St. Petersburg, Florida, increased training for officers on how to handle animals and declared that deadly force could only be used on an animal as a last resort, and only if there was an imminent threat.
If officials in Austin, Texas, hear from enough people, they'll be forced to adopt policies to prevent any more tragedies like what Michael's been through.
More than 25,000 people have already joined Michael to call for justice for Cisco, and to save the lives of other dogs.
Justice for Cisco: Reprimand Officer Griffin and Prevent Dog Shootings
Dear Chief Acevedo and Mayor Leffingwell,
Cisco, a Blue Heeler, was gunned down by an APD officer that was sent to the wrong address for a domestic disturbance call.
Cisco's death is a tragedy that cannot be undone, but justice can be served. APD Officer Griffin, who showed no remorse for wrongfully killing Cisco, must be held accountable.
The Austin Police Department also needs to take steps to make sure officers don't kill any other innocent dogs by improving training and adopting a policy that only allows the use of lethal force on animals as a last resort.
Sign Michael's petition now asking Austin officials to hold police accountable for Cisco's death and to prevent this from ever happening again.
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Pentagon Sex Slaves! UN Condones DynCorp Sex Crimes and Sex Slavery
Athena Sofia J. Martin, Star Model, National Dog Press
Pentagon Sex Slaves!
UN Condones DynCorp Sex Crimes and Sex Slavery
by DOMINIC HIPKINS
A senior United Nations official is demanding that her colleagues involved in the sex trade in Bosnia should be stripped of their immunity and prosecuted.
Madeleine Rees, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Bosnia, has broken ranks to demand that UN officials, international peacekeepers and police who are involved in sex crimes be brought to justice in their home countries.
Speaking exclusively to Scotland on Sunday, the British lawyer has also launched an outspoken attack on her former boss. She accuses Jacques Paul Klein, the former head of the UN Mission in Bosnia, of not taking UN complicity in the country’s burgeoning sex trade seriously enough.
In recent years there has been a massive increase in the trafficking of women in Bosnia, including girls as young as 12. The women are taken from their homes in eastern Europe by organised criminal gangs and brought to Bosnia, where they are forced into prostitution.
The trade in these so-called ‘sex slaves’ hardly existed until the mid-1990s.
It was fuelled by the arrival of tens of thousands of predominantly male UN personnel in the wake of the signing of the Dayton Peace Accord by Bosnia, Croatia and Yugoslavia in 1995.
Rees said: "Visiting brothels where women have been gang-raped into submission, into slavery, is not part of the UN’s mandate.
"Without an enforceable code of conduct, immunity often means impunity. We should look at ways of waiving that immunity.
"I would be very happy to see the possibility of prosecutions for rape or assault in the UK. There is no question this should happen."
Rees, who has served in Bosnia since 1998, said she had encountered stiff opposition from western officials in her attempts to tackle the trafficking of women.
" They don’t want to know about it," she said.
"There is this whole ‘boys will be boys’ attitude about men visiting brothels. There’s a culture inside the UN where you can’t criticise it. That goes all the way to the top."
Referring to Klein, she added: "He doesn’t take this issue at all seriously."
Last year, Rees testified in support of Kathryn Bolkovac, a UN police officer who was sacked for exposing the sexual abuse of women and children in Bosnia by her colleagues.
Bolkovac’s former employer DynCorp, an American security firm which supplied staff to the UN, was forced to pay £110,000 in compensation.
The chairman of the British employment tribunal which heard the case described DynCorp as "callous, spiteful and vindictive".
Bolkovac had revealed UN peacekeepers went to nightclubs where young girls were forced to dance naked and have sex with customers, and that UN personnel and international aid workers were linked to prostitution rings in the Balkans. At the time, Rees described it as "the biggest cover-up I have ever seen", adding that she believed 30% of those visiting Bosnia’s brothels were UN personnel, peacekeepers or aid workers.
DynCorp insists it has the highest ethical standards of business "and encourages employees to speak openly".
However, Rees said the private defence contractors, whose British office is based in Salisbury, should be banned from the country.
"DynCorp... should not be allowed anywhere near Bosnia," she said.
Athena Sofia J. Martin, Star Model, National Dog Press
In January, a 500 strong European Union police force replaced the UN’s 1,800 member multinational International Police Task Force (IPTF).
Dedicated anti-trafficking teams were formed and assigned to raid nightclubs across Bosnia suspected of operating forced prostitution rackets.
Rees said the counter-trafficking efforts had mostly been a failure. "They were basically for show and completely amateurish," she said.
Referring to the EU police force, Rees added: "They are still very much on probation. These men must understand that going into brothels is illegal in Bosnia. The sex is not consensual if the woman is a 13-year-old girl trafficked from Moldova."
Although there have been many cases of police officers being sent home in disgrace for their involvement in the sex trade, the UN can only remove them from service and is powerless to prosecute them. It is up to member countries to take any further action.
Rees said: "People will say the UN is not practising what it preaches. It is double standards, and it looks like western imperialism. Brothel raids find UN police inside, and then no one is prosecuted. The UK is prosecuting no one.
"If you send people home, countries get wild. But if you don’t enforce the rules, you can’t serve in the United Nations."
Human Rights Watch is equally downbeat in its assessment.
A spokesman for the organisation said: "Foreign nationals serving in Bosnia enjoy almost complete immunity. It was assumed countries would prosecute and discipline their citizens upon their return home from for crimes committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This has rarely happened in practice."
Soldiers from S-FOR, or Stabilisation Force, Bosnia’s 18,000 strong Nato-led peacekeeping force, were granted "immunity from personal arrest or detention" by the November 1995 Dayton Treaty which authorised their deployment.
S-FOR troops are banned from attending brothels but Rees said the marketing strategy of suspected new brothels opening near S-FOR bases makes it clear who they are catering for.
"Outside the Russians’ base, there is a brothel called Odessa," she explained. By the Americans’, its Texas or Philadelphia. There’s even an El Cid near the Spanish base. While there are foreign troops in Bosnia, there will be always demand for trafficked women."
Last night, Jan Oskar Solnes, spokesman for the European Union Police Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina, said: "Its correct we have diplomatic immunity, but I imagine any incident [of sexual misconduct] would be a personal rather than professional matter.
"We have a zero tolerance approach to this issue and anyone involved will be removed from the mission."
Kirsten Haupt, spokeswoman for the United Nations Liaison Office (UNLO) in Bosnia, dismissed Rees’s claim that Jacques Paul Klein had not taken the illegal sex trade seriously.
She said: " All cases have been thoroughly investigated. We have sent a number of officers home. There is absolutely no toleration of a ‘boys will be boys’ attitude here."
Klein left Bosnia on February 1 and is no longer working for the UN. He is understood to be on holiday in the United States, and could not be contacted by Scotland on Sunday.
Yesterday, a spokesman for DynCorp said: "We do not make it a practice to comment on opinions.
"However, we are familiar with previous public statements Ms Rees has made about involuntary servitude and DynCorp continues to share her concerns for women held against their will in Bosnia, just as we condemn all human rights abuses anywhere in the world."
Bosnia sex trade shames UN
DOMINIC HIPKINS IN ZAGREB
THE SCOTSMAN: http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=160672003
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Athena Sofia J. martin, Star Model, National Dog Press
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Sins of the peacekeepers
UN forces are supposed to help rebuild war-ravaged communities. But, as Magin McKenna reports, these workers are also pouring money into a flourishing trade in illegal brothels, rape and trafficking in women:
http://www.sundayherald.com/print25914
'Boys will be boys'
It has become a tragic inevitability that whenever international peacekeepers are sent to bring law and order to a war torn country, a vast and exploitative sex industry, allegedly follows close behind:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/correspondent/2043794.stm
UN police accused of involvement in prostitution in Bosnia:
http://www.midhnottsol.org/fow/r034.html
UN Whistleblower Says Fired for Sex Claims:
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/peacekpg/general/2002/0626sex.htm
Forced Prostitution: UN Police are 'Part of the Problem:
http://k.mihalec.tripod.com/current/UNTrade.htm
Teenagers ´used for sex by UN in Bosnia:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/04/25/wbos25.xml&sShee\t=/news/2002/04/25/ixworld.html
A human rights investigator who claims she was sacked for exposing the sexual abuse of Bosnian women by her United Nations colleagues, told a tribunal yesterday that girls as young as 15 were offered for sex:
http://www.balkanpeace.org/hed/archive/apr02/hed4913.shtm
Athena Sofia J. Martin, Star Model, National Dog Press
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