MAY 15, 2015, 10:18 PM LAST UPDATED: SATURDAY, MAY 16, 2015, 12:17 AM
BY ABBOTT KOLOFF
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
The Wyckoff police officer who fatally shot a German shepherd after going to the wrong address to investigate a burglary report last month has been exonerated by a township internal affairs investigation after the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office declined to look into the matter, authorities said in a news release Friday night.
Township Police Chief Ben Fox issued a five-page statement saying that an investigation by his department had “exonerated” the officer, Kyle Ferreira, “from any claim questioning his truthfulness in this incident.” Fox said the officer believed the dog could “cause serious bodily harm” after it bit him in the foot and latched onto his right boot. And Ferreira followed state Attorney General’s Office guidelines for the use of deadly force, the chief said.
Fox said that he was taking an “unusual step” by releasing details of the investigation because “many facts have been misrepresented.”
He said the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office had declined to investigate the matter, citing state regulations, and sent it back to his department’s internal affairs unit. The chief had asked the Prosecutor’s Office to investigate because “allegations were being made that the police department was not being truthful,” he said in the statement.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/cop-who-shot-dog-is-cleared-wyckoff-police-chief-says-1.1335901
When are people going to meet at Starbucks for the protest?
White people rise up!
Burn down CVS!
Unanswered questions: why when going to take a report of a “Burglary IN THE PAST” does supercop show up with weapon drawn? (If it was burglary in progress the protocol is to wait for a backup officer)
If the dog owner’s allegation that spent shell casings were found at a location other than reported by the officer, why was this not investigated/clarified?
A simple investigation would determine who is telling the truth here.
I guess wyckoff can save money on billy clubs, pepper spray and flashlights since the non-lethal methods are no longer accepted practice here. Shoot first and no questions will be asked.
Cops always are innocent. If you want to commit a crime, become a cop first, if you are caught, no problem, you will be rewarded.
If cops want respedctt, they have to deserve it first. Getting off on killing living beings doesn’t quality.
So EVERY cop has killed a living thing 9:43? Or are you painting them all with a broad brush. I wonder what other groups you paint with a broad brush. What a closed mind.
9:41 What reward do they get?
Bergen County Dispatch Center ” You get what you pay for”
It’s like bill Clinton investigating hillary and expecting tax paying non-democratics to believe the results.
The Police are not to be trusted. They are amoral. They protect their own, and see you as an outsider in your own society.
This will get worse before it gets better. One day, some rich white kid wearing a hoodie is going to get shot in the back by a trigger happy suburban cop.
Then all you comfortable people, to whom Baltimore is just a distant ghetto, will realize what your country, state and municipality has become.
Its time to take your medication 7:21. The orderlies will be taking your computer soon.
“Exonerated by a township internal affairs investigation”…. Nobody believes this crap anymore, and yet they just keep expecting tax paying citizens to accept their schtick.
Who pays got the cops 7:33?