Columbia police kill pit bull, find ‘small amount of marijuana’ while raiding home (updated)

Update (2:30 p.m. May 11): Kansas City’s chapter of the Nartional Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws is heading to Columbia on May 17 for a rally protesting the way a SWAT team raided a home that led to a pit bull being shot to death and a Corgi being wounded. The raid turned up only a small amount of weed, a pipe and a grinder.

Meanwhile, Columbia police announced yesterday that they are changing their policies on how SWAT raids are conducted. Columbia police chief Ken Burton admitted at a news conference that “we did some things wrong.”

“I am telling you we have

fixed those things — that the public can be assured that a similar

incident will not happen again without someone’s head rolling because

it’s now policy,” Burton said.

But so far as anyone can tell, it’s still cool to shoot a dog during a raid.