Posted on 06/15/2016 9:04:56 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A police K-9 died after its handler left the dog in the back of a patrol car for nearly three hours.
The Cherokee County Marshal’s Office and the Cherokee Sheriff’s Office were called out to the home of Cherokee County School Police Lt. Daniel Peabody on Friday after getting a call that the police dog had died, WSB-TV reports.
Peabody arrived home around 4:15 p.m. and left the 4-year-old Belgian Malinois named Inka in the back of the car, with the engine turned off, while he dealt with another dog inside his home.
“He gets out, turns the car off, gets busy with his wife helping another dog, and apparently he simply forgot about the dog, accidentally,” said Cherokee County Marshal’s Office Chief Ron Hunton.
Around 7 p.m., the officer remembered he left Inka in the car and found the dog dead.
Temperatures that day reached the 90s, and Hunton says it got much warmer inside the car.
According to the sheriff’s office, Peabody let another officer use his K-9 squad car and was driving a regular patrol car. Another department vehicle outfitted to handle a K-9 officer was out of service.
A Marshal’s Office spokesman says criminal charges are possible in this case, but explained the department’s investigation is not complete.
Where?
Dear Lord.
Georgia
Looks like it’s in Georgia, in a county north of Atlanta.
Since it is a servant of the rulers rather than a Prole, he probably will get a slap on the wrist, at most.
If an ordinary citizen would have been charged with animal cruelty .
If I were to kill a K-9 I believe it would be treated as if I had killed a police officer. Very serious offense.
This numbnuts just killed a police officer in a horrible way. Slap on the wrist?
I was thinking the same thing.
That’s awful. Don’t know how much the officer needs to be punished here, the death of a K9 is a lot of punishment. They build amazing bonds and are together 24/7.
It was an accident. Good grief. muslims are happy.
Shoot, it happened last summer with another K9 policeman, I seem to recall.
Sad.
Happens so often it’s almost not s news item. These bastards should be gired, charged with animal cruelty and incarcerated. Also with willful destruction of public property.
Happens so often it’s almost not s news item. These bastards should be gired, charged with animal cruelty and incarcerated. Also with willful destruction of public property.
Won’t ever hear of a follow-up to this story.
If he were a civilian, the investigation would have taken about 30 seconds and the charges lodged immediately thereafter.
I have been traveling in rural Virginia, looking at real estate, on and off, for the last couple of years. My wife and I have a joke that when you buy a car in Virginia, it must come with a dog. Because every time we go to a property, the real estate agent has a dog in the car, and every time we deal with anybody else, like lawyers or engineers, they all have dogs in their cars. Typically the business only takes fifteen minutes, so the dog stays in the car, quite happily.
Coming from New Jersey, we find this surprising. If people did this back home, there would be Hell to pay. But four hundred miles away, it is perfectly normal, and nobody gives it a second thought.
These Virginia dog owners are all fine people. The dogs are not harmed. They are never left in the car for long. If it is a hot day, the windows are left rolled down. I have never seen a dog worse for wear. But in New Jersey, the cops would be called, every single time.
Probably true, but he would also be charged with killing a police officer.
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