ELDORADO—Remember Smokey the German Shepherd?
Apparently, it’s been settled.
Regular readers will remember that last fall, there was an incident in Eldorado involving a new cop, Ryan Ward, who, while searching for someone in a particular neighborhood, came upon the wrong house, this one belonging to Jason Robershaw. Ward went around the back of the house and encountered Robershaw’s dog, Smokey, and shot Smokey, later claiming that the dog “attacked” him…and the city’s errant police chief, Freeman Shannon Todd Deuel (STD) backing him up in paperwork later on.
Well, today, Robershaw posted this on his Facebook page:
Concerning the Smokey situation: My attorney and I settled with the city. Although they deny any fault in the matter, their insurance paid their deductible. It is not what I wanted but it is at least some acknowledgement. I would suggest installing video and audio surveillance on your property and in your car. That’s what I’m doing to protect myself against future encounters with dishonest police officers.
Freeman STD…he’s like a disease….every bit as contagious.
We’re happy that something came of it, and of course that doesn’t replace Smokey at all, but at least this came of it: Someone is speaking out about the “dishonesty of police officers.” While Robershaw didn’t specify anyone, the article we ran covering the situation in full, including giving the police report where it’s obvious STD lied to cover Ward’s ass (Ward was still on a probationary period), clearly showed what some of the cops in ‘rado are capable of. And none of it is going to change until someone gets Deuel out of there and gets a police chief in who won’t resort to bullshit when something of this nature happens. So think carefully during your next election cycle, ‘rado…STD serves at the mayor’s pleasure, and a new mayor may or may not fix things.
