Because Edwin Avellanet had an orange cone in front of his house police questioned him as he was taking out the trash.
Edwin refused to give identification to police and went inside his house.
Police followed him in without a warrant, then beat and pepper sprayed him and his family.
After they knocked over the parakeet’s cage, freeing it, they then purposefully killed it!
“I screamed, ‘The bird!’” said one resident in a statement. “And he said, ‘F— the bird,’ and he, like, stepped on it.”
This is completely sickening! Police brutality in this country is on a dramatic rise!
A Staten Island woman is suing the New York Police Department for allegedly entering her home without a warrant, beating her friends and relatives with clubs and savagely murdering her beloved parakeet.
The incident took place over a year ago, on Labor Day of 2012. A man, Edwin Avellanet, was approached by NYPD as he was taking a bag of garbage outside, according to the New York Daily News. The police wanted to know why there was an orange cone in front of the house. Avellanet said he had put it there to save a parking spot. When the cops asked for his identification, he refused and ran back into the house, which belonged to his mother, Evelyn Lugo.
The situation quickly escalated.
Police pursued him, broke down the door of Lugo’s house and entered without a warrant. The officers then attacked the other people in the house, according to Lugo’s lawsuit. Several members of the family were pepper sprayed and beaten with clubs, causing bruises, welts and other injuries.
But the cruelest and most senseless act of violence was reserved for Lugo’s pet parakeet, Tito. Officers overturned Tito’s cage, knocking the pretty green bird out into the apartment. Lugo’s daughter, Anna Febles, begged the police to be careful with Tito. Instead, they smashed him.
“I screamed, ‘The bird!’” said Febles in a statement. “And he said, ‘F— the bird,’ and he, like, stepped on it.”
Lugo’s children were initially afraid to tell their mother than her bird was dead. They worried she would have a hysterical fit, having loved Tito so much.
“I was hurt on the inside, in my heart,” said Lugo, reacting to the death of her bird and the injuries to her children, grandchildren and friends.
Criminal charges against various members of the family were eventually dropped.
The police department had not yet received Lugo’s suit, but the New York Daily News claimed that Lugo is seeking unspecified damages. The police engaged in unlawful search and seizure, excessive force and malicious prosecution, according to the suit.
That’s absurd! The cop needs to be arrested like the criminal he is!!!!
these effin Pigs need shot
Thugs in blue
this kind of $#%&!@* needs to be stopped
NEW YORKERS MOVE TO WA STATE….A FREEDOM STATE!
I can’t believe this $#%&!@* an it’s weeks if not months old
The Lib’s will say he dropped a piece of trash and was charged with littering and resisting arrest, SUE THE $#%&!@* OUT OF THEM
We are going to see more and more of this all the time as our police become more militarized and radicalized. This is part of Obama’s National Police Force. They are receiving military urban warfare and SWAT training, and riot control training in preparation for civil disobedience, either because of a natural disaster, or a big terrorist attack giving Obama the excuse to declare Marshall Law.
It is just going to get worse until we all stand together and show these people they work for us we do not work for them!!
You may as well wake up this is been going on now for at less five years it part of the nwo and there just looking for a excuse to get to us .we are losing our rights everyday and people just can’t get it . Before long they well stop you at the food store and tell you without proper id you will not enter to buy food . And i not talking about drivers licence either . You will be given a new i d with how much you can buy when you can if you don’t have anything on your card when they stop you .you maybe subject to be hauled off to a fema camp