{"id":32450,"date":"2018-03-30T03:46:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T08:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32450"},"modified":"2018-03-30T03:46:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T08:46:53","slug":"abaj-courts-are-awarding-significant-damages-to-families-whose-dogs-are-killed-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32450","title":{"rendered":"ABAJ: Courts are awarding significant damages to families whose dogs are killed by police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABAJ: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/magazine\/article\/pet_threat_courts_award_damages\/?utm_source=maestro&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=weekly_email\">Courts are awarding significant damages to families whose dogs are killed by police<\/a> by Arin Greenwood:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Feb. 1, 2014, a Maryland police officer investigating a robbery shot and killed a family\u2019s beloved dog.<\/p>\n<p>Officer Rodney Price, who\u2019d been on the force for a year, was in the waterfront neighborhood of the Baltimore suburb of Glen Burnie searching for witnesses. Price encountered Vern, the Reeves family\u2019s 4-year-old Chesapeake Bay retriever, in the yard after knocking on the front door. He shot Vern twice after the dog went at him, he claimed.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>According to the Baltimore Sun, Price said at the time that Vern had \u201cconfronted and attacked\u201d him, provoking the shooting. \u201cI unloaded on your dog. Your dog attacked me, and I killed it,\u201d Price reportedly told the family.<\/p>\n<p>The Reeves family filed suit against Anne Arundel County and Price. More than three years later, in May 2017, a jury awarded Michael Reeves, Vern\u2019s primary owner, $1.26 million, the largest civil judgment in U.S. history for a pet\u2019s death at the hands of police.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABAJ: Courts are awarding significant damages to families whose dogs are killed by police by Arin Greenwood:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32451,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32450\/revisions\/32451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}