Posted on 11/11/2013 12:11:27 PM PST by dragnet2
A Georgia police officer shot and killed a tiny Jack Russell Terrier that he claims threatened him during a routine probationary checkup on Monday.
The officer, Antoine Jones, is over six feet tall and weighs nearly 300 pounds. Patches, the dog he killed, weighs just 12 pounds, according to a local news channel.
Jones visited the Albany residence of Cherrie Shelton earlier this week to check on her son, who is serving probation. Upon Jones’s arrival, two-year-old Patches approached the officer and began barking. Shelton claims she told Jones that Patches was no threat, but the officer drew his weapon and shot the dog anyway.
After being shot, Patches fled and hid, eventually succumbing to her wounds.
According to Jones’s statement, Patches advanced toward him in a threatening manner even after receiving “multiple verbal commands to get back.”
But Shelton said this was not Jones’s first visit to the home, and the officer should have known that Patches was harmless.
Shelton buried Patches, and has plans to buy a cross to mark her grave. The dog is missed, she said.
Your Post 39 has been removed. Last night you posted that this probation officer was black and afraid of dogs. You even provided a link. You were posting racist garbage and did so again today with your removed post. We don’t like that trash on FR. Libs are racist. Conservatives are not.
8) "Peace officer" means, for purposes of this chapter only:
(A) An agent, operative, or officer of this state, a subdivision or municipality thereof, or a railroad who, as an employee for hire or as a volunteer, is vested either expressly by law or by virtue of public employment or service with authority to enforce the criminal or traffic laws through the power of arrest and whose duties include the preservation of public order, the protection of life and property, and the prevention, detection, or investigation of crime;
(B) An enforcement officer who is employed by the Department of Transportation in its Office of Permits and Enforcement and any person employed by the Department of Juvenile Justice who is designated by the commissioner to investigate and apprehend unruly and delinquent children;
(B.1) Personnel who are authorized to exercise the power of arrest, who are employed or appointed by the Department of Juvenile Justice, and whose full-time duties include the preservation of public order, the protection of life and property, the detection of crime, or the supervision of delinquent and unruly children in the department's institutions, facilities, or programs;
(C) Personnel who are authorized to exercise the power of arrest and who are employed or appointed by the Department of Corrections, the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, municipal correctional institutions employing 300 or more correctional officers, county probation systems, and county correctional institutions;
http://www.gapost.org/postAct/3582.html
Please post it. There is nothing I posted or did yesterday that should have gotten a thread pulled. I recall, some rather vulgar attacks directed at me, but nothing for which I would have pulled a thread.
Go look for your racist Post 39.
Yes.
But aw mentioning skin color in his pulled post is irrelevant to that
Which begs the question of why he mentioned it at all.
Since when is a study done by a black person about black people racist?
Well said.
Post 39 and a pulled thread. Yeah, I’ll get right on that!
I don’t think that people on FR hate the police, speaking for myself, it is distrust of the police. Trust is earned, not mandated. How you conduct yourself is how you will be judged not whether or not you are in some kind of uniform.
If however you are in uniform and with a badge of authority a higher standard should be demanded and followed.
If you aren’t up to it there’s always another gov job you can find.
I don't live in town. Do you want to make any more assumptions, allegations or accusations?
Since you used it that way. Where does it state the race of the probation officer? Nowhere.
Yeah, I’m thinking the same thing since I believe that ID got punched at a couple of sites because the idiot was, well... An idiot.
Growing up I knew a lot of cops. A good friends dad was a police Lt and a darn good man. I don’t remember anyone but bad people being negative about cops.
Heck I have at least 7 neighbors that are cops and only one of them will even say hi to me. The rest won’t even acknowledge you as you walk past.
I understand.
My point is, Yukon, or Alaska wolf said probation officers are not peace officers or cops. However the State of Georgie considers them to be cops.
http://www.completedogsguide.com/images/dog-breeds/largepic/Jack-Russel-Terrier5.jpg
Yep...
However the State of *Georgia* too..Considers them to be cops.
Maybe you can explain how I was able to do that? What I've witnessed is that I'm accused of being vulgar, name calling and posting racist garbage and not a single incident has been posted supporting the allegations.
Isn't it time to drop the facade? You don't like cops? Fine. The least you can do is be factual and accurate when you post. That should be everyone's objective, shouldn't it?
I thought the thread was about a cop who shot a little tiny dog.
What facts are ya looking for yukon?
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