Posted on 07/28/2011 2:24:31 PM PDT by Immerito
DURHAM (WTVD) -- Did a member of a Durham police SWAT team go too far when he shot and killed a dog during a raid in April? Some say it was unnecessary force.
ABC11 cameras captured the incident at a home on Dunstan Avenue April 12.
Officers were looking for Pete Moses and Vania Sisk. According to search warrants, Moses is a suspect in the disappearance of a woman and a 5-year-old boy. Sisk is the boy's mother.
(Excerpt) Read more at abclocal.go.com ...
The SWAT team goes up the suspect's porch and shoots a labrador on the top of said porch.
Let’s hear it for these brave public servants!
They ought to be confined to wallowing in crap for life like the pigs that they are.
Flame on, bootlickers!
I can tell you one thing! This SWAT team learned their tactics from the BATF. From Ruby Ridge to Waco and beyond, the FIRST thing the BATF does when raiding a home is KILL ALL THE PETS!
Questioned and answered.
SWAT have a particularly difficult time with dogs because of the odd way SWAT is dressed.
People who know dogs, know that dogs often react defensively to strangely (Halloween etc) dressed people.
And considering this item is from May 23, it appears there was no action against a SWAT member, or your search for “Police shoot dog” (to stoke up the Cop Haters) would of had a result indicating as much.
But this is another good example of the Drive-by Media hit. As if it would be OK for a dog to attack SWAT, because there are people (who easily could have moved themselves further away) left and right.
Disgusting pigs. The Pima County SWAT Team murdered a Marine inside his home, essentially no-knock raid, with apparently few to no repercussions. Welcome to the one world government police state.
I just realized this is the THIRD “Police shoot dog” thread posted by you in a week, and in each one the police were not found at fault.
In the first thread, the owner of the dog actually said he understood why his dog was shoot.
In the second thread, the policeman was investigated and cleared with physical evidence.
And now this Drive-by Media hit, were SWAT is not found at fault.
That makes three strikes.
There were people nearby when this lab is shot. Do you believe that the risk of richoched shots hitting innocent bystanders is worth dispatching a labrador?
Do you not realize that you are tacitly admitting that you find the actions of this SWAT team so indefensible that you attempt to discredit a fellow Freeper rather than defend them?
There were people nearby when this lab is shot. Do you believe that the risk of ricocheted shots hitting innocent bystanders is worth dispatching a labrador?
Do you not realize that you are tacitly admitting that you find the actions of this SWAT team so indefensible that you attempt to discredit a fellow Freeper rather than defend them?
When did this dog attack the SWAT team?
Show evidence of bite wounds from the officers.
It is the responsibility of the officers to understand dog psychology and not indiscriminately shoot family pets.
Shoot without thinking is supposed to be a caricature of gunowners, not a modus operandi for wanna-be soldiers.
When did this dog attack the SWAT team?
Show evidence of bite wounds from the officers.
It is the responsibility of the officers to understand dog psychology and not indiscriminately shoot family pets.
Shoot without thinking is supposed to be a leftist caricature of gunowners, not a modus operandi for wanna-be soldiers.
This is America, not Communist Russia or Nazi Germany.
I told you, this is another Drive-by Media hit, just like the other two you posted where there was no fault found on the police.
Now you are getting so desperate you are posting an item from months ago.
Why don’t you at the very least post an item where a policeman is actually faulted and we can all agree that was a bad cop?
That would be a fellow Freeper worthy of being called a fellow Freeper. The way you been posting Drive-by Media Hits against the police who have not even been found at fault is Creeper, not Freeper.
Your tagline brags about “Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days”.
Take 180 and stop bearing false witness.
You’re being way too easy on them.
Every officer I work with or know has at least one dog. I have black lab myself and would be tore up if he got shot.
But an officer cannot afford to be bitten by a dog because it might offend someone’s sensibilities.
So where is the common ground? People don’t want there dogs shot, and officers don’t want injuries that could do nerve damage and end careers prematurely. An officer retired for disability is an early retirement and the taxpayers have to pay for that.
OC doesn’t work all that hot, a Taser works well but you only have one shot and you have to hit a small fast moving target at less than twenty one feet and the chance of proper probe spread is greatly diminished and thus less effective.
The answer might be the Taser shotgun rounds but an officer can’t really hump that around on every call for service where they might encounter a dog.
Instead excoriating officers for making do with what they have, how about some ideas that protect both officer and dog?
I would suggest something the officer can turn on that uses the dogs heightened hearing senses against them, an ultrasonic device that causes them stay away from the officer.
This is the one with the black lab on the porch who was wagging his tail nervously and sitting still, isn’t it? My disgust knows no bounds.
BTW, nice keywords that someone decided to put in.
Who cleared the cops of ANY wrong doing?
Oh...the cops...
Look...cops shooting dogs has become so common it's becoming a colloquialism
Oh, it's just some offended sensibilities? No Problem...everybody move on. Toughen up and move along!
Thank you for confirming that you cannot defend these SWAT officers who shot a labrador.
I’m sure the story would shape me to be some violent thug, because I will return fire on anyone who shoots my dog. If it’s after I’m in custody I will finish the confrontation immediately and on my terms upon bail or release.
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