Zachary Smith’s “Little Helpers,” serve process two days before Christmas against Lockport, NY Police for the shooting of Smith’s dog Junior on September 27, 2014. https://facebook/Justice4JuniorLockport Smith’s lawyer, animal rights attorney Matthew Albert, shed some light as to the reasoning behind the unconventional service of process. “Simply put, Chief Eggert and his department have unlawfully ignored requests for documents, withheld records, tampered with evidence, and have been playing cover up and hide the ball since they killed the dog. Serving them on a video that has now been viewed by thousands of people may have been the only way for the department to actually acknowledge service of the paperwork,” said Albert. The facts relating to the dog’s killing have been in dispute throughout the proceedings. The Police Department maintains that Junior ran through a locked gate while Belling and Wasik were investigating a call of trespassing. However, a civilian eyewitness states that the police broke the gate at a South Street residence, allowing the dog to escape the back yard he was previously inhabiting. The city subsequently charged Smith with possessing an unlicensed dog, as well as with permitting a dog to be off leash in public. That proceeding, separate although related to the lawsuit Smith plans to pursue, has already begun and will return before the Honorable Thomas Dimillo on January 26, 2015.
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 18:35:21 +0000
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