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.
This old boy could have saved himself and his family a lot of grief if he would have taken 30 seconds to talk to the cops. Instead he walked away like an ass leaving the cops to believe that he had stolen city property. So they had every right to follow him into his house and take him into custody. He resisted and was pepper sprayed and cuffed. Anyone who has ever used pepper spray knows there is over spray that effects everyone in the area to include the person doing the spraying. As for as the bird, we cant tell our law enforcement officers to make sure there are no birds in the area before you subdue an uncooperative suspect.
I get them one at a time.
this is new York for you Schumers thugs
What is the probable cause???? SUE THE BASTARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
…do you need a warrant to kill a parakeet?…
$#%&!@* YOU NYPD!!!!
just another instance of “cowboy cops” that watch too much TV and think that’s the way they should act too . IMHO anyway.
I wish they would come to my house and try that $#%&!@*…. I would have shot and every $#%&!@*ING one of them
the love just keeps growing
An Orange Cone in front of his house ? that’s a real great reason to hurt someone.Anyone wonder why people are moving out of NY ?