Posted on 02/01/2016 5:22:09 AM PST by PittsburghAfterDark
Police shot and killed a man Sunday afternoon near the East Busway in Wilkinsburg after they said he stabbed a Port Authority police dog to death.
Bruce Kelley Jr., 37, was pronounced dead at the scene of the incident on Whitney Avenue after 4 p.m.
The K-9 officer, Aren, was a 5-year-old German shepherd who worked patrol and explosives. He had been on the job for four years, said Chief Matt Porter of Port Authority police.
According to superintendent Charles Moffatt of Allegheny County police, the incident was first called in to 911 dispatch at 3:37 p.m. after two Port Authority officers on patrol were involved in an altercation with two men — Mr. Kelley and his father, 60-year-old Bruce Tyrone Kelley — whom they found drinking in a gazebo along the busway near Hamnett Place Station.
When the officers confronted the men, Bruce Kelley Jr. became agitated, said Port Authority spokesman Jim Ritchie, and physically fought with one officer, who was taken to an area hospital with lacerations on his hands and to have X-rays taken of his arm.
“It was a knock-down, drag-out,†Chief Porter said of the fight.
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A dog is an officer?
I love the inevitable “is a man’s life worth less than a dog/material possessions/case of beer comments?
In some cases the answer is “yes”.
In many jurisdictions, yes.
Was the perp defending himself from an unprovoked dog attack?
Yeah, what’s up with that?
Kinda goes along with the casual explaining away of police shooting people’s dogs when they swarm a residence to make an arrest.
This is one thing I DO NOT agree with regarding police policy. A dog is a dog, I don’t care how many tricks it can do. If someone were to kill your own dog for no reason, the only thing he would be charged with is cruelty to animals. There should be no double standard here.
So can we shoot the cop that kills the family protector defending his home?
This is yet another indication of just how impaired and self destructive this society has become. It should give anyone chills to hear that a human being was killed by other human beings because of an animal, no matter what the circumstances.
This is just another example of how we’re being conditioned to accept the unacceptable. Every time I hear of Law Enforcement Officers and Firefighters risking their lives and that of their families and children to save an animal, I wonder how we got to this point. Any animal, however much loved, can be replaced. A husband, a father, or a son is a whole different story. I wonder how I would feel if my husband or son died while trying to save the life of an animal. I can be sure that I wouldn’t think the animal was worth it or that I would think my family’s loss of him would be justified.
Neither do I think that taxpayer dollars should be spent by the hundred of thousands for the use of equipment and personnel to save a hundred dollar dog.
No, I don’t believe any animal’s life is worth the sacrifice of a human being. Those who feel that it is should turn themselves in immediately for having breakfast this morning.
The equating animals with humans is just another symptom of a very sick society.
Sic a dog on a fellow human being — you can expect him to kill the dog.
And then come after the prick who sicced the dog on him.
So, if someone kills my dog, l can shoot them down?
Just the LEO way of letting the civilians know how little they think of them — that they think of their attack dogs more highly.
I’m wondering if these guys were bothering anybody.
Apparently they were. Somebody must have called the cops.
A dog is not an officer.
Stabbing a police dog does not justify being shot to death. Stabbing an officer, posing an immediate danger to others, and refusing to put down a knife when surrounded by cops probably does justify the shooting. This seems like a situation for rubber bullets or bean bags, but they (apparently) only had Tasers or real bullets and the Tasers failed.
We love our dogs!!
"He had a knife, and he stabbed the dog," Mr. Moffatt said. "The dog went down, and the officers shot and killed the man."
5-6 officers should have been able to take down the guy manually. This description sounds like the cops got mad after the perp killed the dog and so they just shot and killed the perp.
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