The officers also tried to warn residents that a police dog named Loki was present, but their attempts to do so in Spanish were nonsensical, according to court records.

“Pedo policía pedo la madera,” officers repeatedly said, which a translator later found meant, “Fart police, fart the wood.”

Eventually, the officers entered the home and arrested the man they were looking for. After that man’s arrest, the officers entered the bedroom where Guerrero-Salmeron was and commanded the police dog to bite the man. The dog bit Guerrero-Salmeron, who was unarmed, on the arm for about 15 seconds as he held up his tourist visa and ID.

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    Colorado has been especially insane with policing as of late. There was another case recently where an "off-duty" police dog jumped a fence into a neighbors backyard and bit a girl having her 2nd birthday party. It also bit her father when he jumped in to protect her leaving both with lifelong injuries. The county ruled that the officer gets qualified immunity and also that they're not responsible for the medical bills because the dog's handler was "cleaning urine out of the dogs crate at the time" (a highly-trained K9 pissing in its crate??) therefore this happened "while performing official duties."

    Another man just won a $24 million judgement against Parker, CO police after a detected arrested him and ran his name through the mud for hiring an attorney for his son who was accused of shooting two people. The detective claimed he had tampered with evidence and was an accessory to the crime because she was mad the son had an attorney so quickly. She was able to retire and face no accountability.

    Another judgement was handed out against police there for raiding the wrong house based on nothing more than a ping from Apple "Find my device." They cuffed a 78-year-old woman at gunpoint and ransacked her home despite doing no investigation prior to doing the SWAT raid.

    I also see tons of bodycam videos out of CO showing blatant rights violations that routinely go unpunished.

    It seems like the more "liberal" areas of the country always have some of the worst police. We see the same here in Portland and Seattle too.

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    I'm trying to remember, but wasn't there some investigations on seattle's police, and they were specifically from outside the area (so locals aren't hired as the local cops) and told to act as shitty as they do? They were under one of those federal agreements at one point, and a lot of dirt came out on them.

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