Jackson: Dog Shootings Justified

September 5th, 2008 by Kenneth Burns

I will try to hold my comments until the end.

The Washington Post reported this morning that according to Prince George’s County Sheriff Michael A. Jackson, an internal review of the raid on the home of Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo justifies the shootings of they Mayors two dogs.

The results of the review, which did not include Calvo or his mother in law at all, was released in response to a necropsy performed by the state Department of Agriculture in College Park.  The examination of the dog’s revealed that one dog was shot four times while the other one was shot two times in the back legs.  By the way, Calvo paid for the examinatio at $360 for each dog.

First and foremost, Jackson has pulled a page from the playbook of Prince George’s County Executive Jack Johnson (D).  When Johnson was State’s Attorney, instead of talking with the family of a victim who was beaten to death in Laurel ten years ago, he talked to the alleged assailants without getting the other side.  Jackson in an attempt to prop him and his department up, rushed to release a review that is biased, let alone the fact that he has not acknowledged that the raid was a flawed operation AND the fact that he has not apologized.

Maryland Politics Today is still calling for the resignation of Prince George’s County Sheriff Michael A. Jackson in addition to demanding that he apologizes to Mayor Calvo and his family.