Between Two Rivers

Nebraska Supreme Court is asked to define a chase

A Nebraska trooper is trying to catch up to another car and it's not considered chasing?


Alternate title: Nebraska, where liability meets the road.

Ottumwa, IA police officer shoots a dog while it's on his (the dog's) owner's property. A crowd builds and grows angrier accusing the officer of shooting a non-aggressive dog. Other officer's arrive and threaten to arrest the neighbors.

“They’ve never done anything, then you come up and shoot this dog? I was mad,” she said. Olson [neighbor] accused police of being “out of control.”

Neighbors are mad about the shooting, but what happened next has them even angrier. They say [Officer] Vose’s supervisor, Sgt. Rick Jones, arrived and behaved aggressively toward the people who had gathered. Accounts from neighbors are consistent and say Jones repeatedly threatened to arrest anyone who did not go back into their homes.

Controversy over police shooting of dogThrow everyone in jail is the answer to everything.