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Police Officer to Disabled Veteran Denied Service: “You’re Not Blind, You Don’t Need a Dog”
Yahoo! News ^ | February 27, 2014 | Will Lerner

Posted on 02/27/2014 7:20:20 PM PST by DogByte6RER

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To: null and void

LOL / Ouch.


21 posted on 02/27/2014 8:37:01 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: FreedomGuru

Should have said he was married to the dog. The meal would have been on the house.


22 posted on 02/27/2014 8:40:57 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: DogByte6RER

You’re not blind, you don’t need a dog.
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I guess he would have gotten shot if he had responded.

“Well, you are a complete idiot, yet you have a badge and a gun.”


23 posted on 02/27/2014 8:58:15 PM PST by xrmusn (6/98 --When you have them by the short hairs, the minds and hearts soon follow.)
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To: null and void

I have so many stories about the Houston police, they used to be violent beyond what most modern Americans would believe, of course a lot of police departments used to be.


24 posted on 02/27/2014 9:04:50 PM PST by ansel12 (Ben Bradlee -- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
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To: DogByte6RER

The way the law’s progressing, maybe if he produced a marriage certificate ...


25 posted on 02/27/2014 9:23:38 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

How nice of the government employee to tell the private citizen what he “needs”.


26 posted on 02/27/2014 9:34:36 PM PST by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: DogByte6RER

In my veteran-centered medical practice I recently assisted two vets who served in the sandbox and have PTSD and multiple musculo-skeletal injuries from combat to get service dogs.

I was blessed to meet Murphy and Justice this week when their owners came to see me. I have never seen these guys so happy and content. The dogs are wonderful and what they do for the vets is even better.

I’m getting really agitated reading these stories about stupid cops and their out-of-control behavior. When I was in college in the 1960’s and -70’s I did not believe in violent revolution. Now I do.


27 posted on 02/27/2014 9:54:08 PM PST by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED.)
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To: DogByte6RER

Was the dog certified and wearing correct identifier?


28 posted on 02/27/2014 9:55:47 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: basil

“15 or 20 years ago.”

How many peolpe knew the Earth traveled around the Sun?

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2014/02/15/Poll-26-percent-in-US-do-not-know-Earth-goes-around-sun/UPI-51491392493264/?spt=sh&or=2

sarc/na, we wish


29 posted on 02/27/2014 11:17:43 PM PST by WorksinKOP
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To: DogByte6RER

30 posted on 02/27/2014 11:50:07 PM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
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To: DogByte6RER

Another NAZI Cop. A paramilitary piece of crap spawned by the academies.

1) Civilian Review Boards

2) Residency reequirements

3) Replace Police Chiefs with civilian directors of public safety who answer to elected officials not the FOP or PBA

4) End binding arbitration

5) End 20 and out

6) Volunteer civilian monitors in each and every class in the police academies

7) Take away the military toys like armored personnel carrier from these clowns and give them back to the National Guard where they belong.

8) De-Institutionalize the FOP and PBA. Cops are civil servants. They shouldn’t have a union.

These are the only solutions to the growing spread of NAZI cops.


31 posted on 02/28/2014 2:31:48 AM PST by ZULU (Magua is sitting in the Oval Office. Ted Cruz/Phil Robertson in 2016.)
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To: DogByte6RER

Hey, isn’t this the same guy who got tossed out of a Starbucks because of his dog last month? Does this happen to him all the time?


32 posted on 02/28/2014 4:24:21 AM PST by servo1969
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Hey, isn’t this the same guy who got tossed out of a Starbucks because of his dog last month? Does this happen to him all the time?

No. Looks like three different incidents, with three different vets and their dogs.

From the article.:

Sadly, this isn’t the first time a veteran has been refused service by a Texas restaurant over having a service dog. Only last week , Marine Corps veteran Don Brown was turned away by the River Side Inn Marina in Channelview, Texas over his service dog, Truman. Earlier in February, an Army veteran was, “confronted and embarrassed at a Houston Starbucks.”

33 posted on 02/28/2014 5:17:39 AM PST by RikaStrom ("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." ~Voltaire)
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To: RikaStrom

One might suspect the cops know the vets have done more in service of their nation than any stateside officer in a magical government costume has done.

Certainly have been quite a few stories of cops targeting vets, lately. War against vets?


34 posted on 02/28/2014 5:52:25 AM PST by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: Altariel
Certainly have been quite a few stories of cops targeting vets, lately. War against vets?

Wouldn't surprise me any.

Remember, by the new rules that Obama illegally implemented, they could get the rights of these veterans taken away by simply saying they were "troubled".

I used to respect police, my family has a police/military background. It used to be one bad egg in a group, now it seems that there is on good egg in the group. I don't know how good cops keep going on these days. Especially the cops in Houston, I have seen them turn right at an intersection to avoid the accident that happened just in front of them.

There was a FReeper yesterday, and I ashamed that I don't recall his name, was making the point that our military is turning into cops, and our cops are turning into military, especially against our own citizens.

I would think long and hard now days as to whether I would put my trust in a cop.

35 posted on 02/28/2014 7:40:30 AM PST by RikaStrom ("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." ~Voltaire)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I wonder if that cop ever was in the service? If he was he should be FIRED on the spot. If not sign him up for a tour in some nasty place.
36 posted on 02/28/2014 8:48:39 AM PST by ANGGAPO (Layte Gulf Beach Club)
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To: DogByte6RER

In this case, there are these professional victims who use dogs.

Have to have a dog with them at all times or they will go crazy. Need special treatment you or I can’t get.


37 posted on 02/28/2014 9:10:31 AM PST by ifinnegan
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