The War on Drugs, or Canines, or whatever

When Mayor Cheye Calvo of Berwyn Heights, Maryland got home from a long day of work he was provided a first-hand lesson on drug war tactics. After bringing in a package addressed to his wife and laying it on his kitchen table, “police with guns drawn kicked in the door and stormed in, shooting to death the couple’s two dogs and seizing the unopened package.”

After they murdered his two dogs, Calvo was handcuffed for two hours in his boxer shorts because officers didn’t believe he was the mayor. Ouch.

Calvo insisted the couple’s two black Labradors were gentle creatures and said police apparently killed them “for sport,” gunning down one of them as it was running away.

“Our dogs were our children,” said the 37-year-old Calvo. “They were the reason we bought this house because it had a big yard for them to run in.”

Perhaps we should be grateful that officers didn’t shoot any real children.