Sometimes yinz can just tell.........
Posted on 08/05/2012 6:25:11 PM PDT by FunkyZero
CLEVELAND COUNTY, Okla.
A Cleveland County woman says she called a sheriff's deputy for help, but when he arrived at her home, he shot and killed her dog without provocation.
(Excerpt) Read more at koco.com ...
It would be nice if there was some way to tell which kind you got when he arrives— size and shape of the badge, maybe.
Yes. But then what?
Her small children and elderly mother were in a room about 10 feet away.
If he couldn't shoot the dog, he would have flung a flash-bang in with the kids & Grandma, like they did in Detroit...
Sorry, had to fix that. ;-)
Excellent analogy.
I say if you have small children and a mother living with you, don’t have a boyfriend that you don’t get along with, forcing you to call 911.
There is a contest among cops to see who can kill the most dogs.
So that justifies shooting the dog? Let me see if I understand, poor unsuspecting cop responds to a domestic dispute at the home of some dog owners and his first response is kill the dog so I have one less issue to deal with. Just asking,
I can’t wait for the day when Mr Honest Citizen kills a cop for shooting a family pet. I’ll throw the first hundred bucks into the defense fund.
Just between you and me, there will be no need for a defense fund. Funeral expense fund maybe ... Once a cop is shot, wrong address, wrong person, wrong state - it doesn’t matter - raise your hands and hope for the best. ;-(
Know why I lump them all together?
Because when this crap happens, the good cops say nothing.
Whenever there’s some scandal inside law enforcement agencies, the vast majority of the cops clam up. They play the “us vs. them” game, where the “them” is the taxpaying public.
There’s clearly been a change in LEO tactics in the last five years, and their new tactic is to shoot first, never second guess a dog issue.
The other thing that really annoys me about LEO’s is the sanctimonious whining about how “dangerous” their jobs are. They carp and bellyache about how many of them die on the job every year.
What they don’t tell the public is where LEO deaths on the job rank vs. other jobs in the US. Commercial fishermen, loggers, farmers/ranchers, high steel construction, roofers, etc all have a higher rate of deaths/100,000 people on the job than LEO’s.
You don’t hear farmers and ranchers (for example) crying about how dangerous their jobs are and how you should be paying big bucks for their pensions and health care as a result, do you? Nor do we hear whining from commercial fishermen or loggers. They just do their job. Death is a bad thing, but these occupations know their work environment is dangerous, and the men and women in those occupations just suck it up and do it.
But none of these other occupations has the power to kill innocent citizens, or break down their doors with malice of forethought and incompetence, and then hide behind sovereign immunity and have the taxpayers pay for their defense. This is what really, really frosts me. There’s no natural limiting factor forcing LEO’s to exhibit some measure of competence, because they don’t have to pay for their own defense in court should someone finally bring justifiable legal action against incompetent or corrupt LEO’s.
And it will be a closed-casket service. The round count from the donut-munchers will be be in the triple digits.
The investigation will cover-up the fact that they didn’t have a warrant.
Also don't take up with violent boyfriends who inspire 911 calls when you have children and pets in the home.
Family pet? Maybe you ought to send that hundred to Zimmerman. He shot a family pet.
When the “good” cops tolerate the bad cops, there are no good cops.
Ahhh,
Colt .32,
This is just one of my guns I use and it is nearly invisable in your pocket.
Since when did you expect State power to be benevolent?
Sarcasm aside, we assuredly have the government we deserve. But look on the bright side. We’re proactively protected from hate chicken and rogue slurpees.
I have to say that it’s always disturbing to hear the incendiary vocabulary of the radical left used on a conservative site.
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