Internet activists target Cd'A

COEUR d'ALENE - Anonymous, a group founded in 2003 by loosely organized international activists, released a second video during the weekend condemning the shooting of a black Lab by a Coeur d'Alene Police Department officer.

The investigation into the July 9 shooting, which is being conducted by the Coeur d'Alene Police Department, is "not acceptable" according to the group. Arfee, the 2-year-old black Lab that was shot in the parking lot of Java on Sherman, was owned by Craig Jones, a resident of Colorado.

"Anonymous nor the citizens of Idaho and many others affected by this via internationally reported incident, will not stand by idly," the video states.

The video continues by stating that the group is prepared to start "phase two" of its "Justice for Arfee" campaign.

"Complete dox (personal information, including names, addresses and phone numbers) of those immediately involved will be compiled and our lasers will be prepared to target all the relevant department websites," the video states.

The Coeur d'Alene Police Department declined to comment on the video.

Anonymous is responsible for hacking numerous organizations, including a 2012 incident when the group responded to the Department of Justice shutting down file-sharing site Megaupload on allegations of copyright piracy.

In a wave of distributed denial-of-service attacks (one method involves saturating a website with external communications requests to the extent that it cannot respond to legitimate traffic), Anonymous shut down the FBI, record labels and other copyright organization websites.