Posted on 10/21/2014 5:32:13 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Body camera footage from a Texas cop’s perspective shows the officer making kissing noises at two dogs, who wag their tails at the human, before he opens fire and kills one.
The second pit bull, tracked down in Cleburne, Texas, was captured without incident by an animal control officer – but the killing of the dog has the city investigating the incident after an uproar in the city of 30,000 people some 30 miles south of Fort Worth.
The 22-second clip, uploaded Friday onto YouTube, shows a brown pup and another dark colored dog milling about in a grassy ditch near a culvert. The officer can be heard calling to the animals with little kissing noises, causing the pups to perk up and start wagging their tails as the unidentified male officer approaches
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Why did the dog owner let his pitbulls on the loose without a leash? If you hear the call to the police it sounds like the neighbors were terrorized by these animals.
I’m kind of ambivalent on this one. The cop was called apparently on account of complaints about the dogs. The fact that the dogs responded to “kissing noises” means nothing. Even the most violent killer pits are somebody’s cuddly wuddlies that wouldn’t harm a fly. I have not seen the video. The video describes the dogs as “pups”. Were they puppies?
Don’t expect union thugs to turn on fellow union thugs. Andy and Barney don’t work here any more.
When I was growing up on a farm in Iowa, the standard rule concerning edible livestock was that any critter that has a name is safe from becoming Sunday dinner.
My sister and I had a pet turkey named “Tom” (how original...hey, we were kids) that we raised from a ‘chick’ and he was imprinted with the image of us being his mom.
He followed us around constantly like a spare shadow and always came out to meet us, getting off the school bus each afternoon. He’d come out and fan out his feathers and strut around a bit. It was his main, possibly only, talent.
In early November, word leaked out to us that he was going to be the main course for Thanksgiving dinner. The old rule had been over-ridden and Tom was about to be “axed” literally.
Come the day before Thanksgiving, we all dreaded what was about to happen and nobody would volunteer to be his executioner. Just thinking about it spread through the family to where we were all nearly in tears.
Happy ending:
We couldn’t bear to kill Tom for dinner, so we ate the dog.
When I was growing up on a farm in Iowa, the standard rule concerning edible livestock was that any critter that has a name is safe from becoming Sunday dinner.
My sister and I had a pet turkey named “Tom” (how original...hey, we were kids) that we raised from a ‘chick’ and he was imprinted with the image of us being his mom.
He followed us around constantly like a spare shadow and always came out to meet us, getting off the school bus each afternoon. He’d come out and fan out his feathers and strut around a bit. It was his main, possibly only, talent.
In early November, word leaked out to us that he was going to be the main course for Thanksgiving dinner. The old rule had been over-ridden and Tom was about to be “axed” literally.
Come the day before Thanksgiving, we all dreaded what was about to happen and nobody would volunteer to be his executioner. Just thinking about it spread through the family to where we were all nearly in tears.
Happy ending:
We couldn’t bear to kill Tom for dinner, so we ate the dog.
“Good cops need to get people like this fired, quickly”
How do you do that when you are outnumbered 95 to 5?
“According to this logic... every school teacher is a pedophile. You read about it once a week, right?”
Each one might not be, but we have learned is that all teachers will tolerate child abuse just as good cops tolerate bad cops.
I haven’t seen a story whereby a good teacher called the cops on a bad teacher.
The officer details how the second dog, a female reportedly in heat, stayed a safe distance away and was safely captured by animal control.
Two notes of importance from this quote. First, animal control was clearly called and on the scene.
Secondly, the female dog was in heat, and this is why the male dog was so aggressive. If anyone is at fault here it's the owner of the dogs (if any) who didn't spay her. There is no excuse for not spaying or neutering your pet dog or cat. None. Unless you are breeding them. This is the result (as well as unwanted puppies). It's the owner who should be lambasted here. Not the cop.
Why should he be expected to allow a growling dog baring his teeth to come in contact with him? Because the dog might calm down then? That's really a chance you expect him to take in this situation?
Bash the irresponsible owner here. And yes, again, it's irresponsible to not spay or neuter your pet (if you're not a breeder). Flame me for that if you must. If so though, it will show you have nothing else to offer in rebuttal than puerile anger.
“We couldn’t bear to kill Tom for dinner, so we ate the CAT!”
Fixed it.
I always pull a sad face and say “We shoulda named the dog”...
+1
MY motto as well. Any loose pitbulls in the county get a suppressed .22LR in the skull. We have had 4 deaths of young children and old people due to loose pitbulls in the rural areas of AR.
You sound like the prophet Muhammed, with your predijice towards dogs, DC.
Sadly I have to agree.
Through the years (ago) I have had several really special Pits as family pets, who were as loyal and loving as any living thing. Their greatest fault was being super territorial.
In the last 20 years after the Hood discovered Pits, the inbreeding and mistreatment has brought out the worst in the breed. Back in the old dog fighting days, any Pit that put a tooth on a human was put down, not so now.
Like a shooting star, the Pitbull’s time has come and gone.
It’s not the dogs fault, it’s the owners fault.
“As is often the case, the short video does not tell the whole story,” the city wrote in a statement about the shooting. “The officer was responding to a 911 call for assistance. Three dogs had pinned some residents in a vehicle. One dog was secured without incident before the shooting. The officer was attempting to secure the other dogs until animal control arrived when one dog became aggressive.”
I don’t think they’re outnumbered. This bad stuff is broadcast loudly (agenda, anybody?) but is rather rare.
Mind you we’ve had some seriously stupid War on Drugs stuff here in GA. A baby badly burned by flash bangs, an innocent man killed in a raid, and an okra patch seized... That is why I have the left the pro-Drug War camp for legalization.
And, of course, we have those idiot People’s Republic of California cops who shot 600+ holes in a car with a hostage still in it, killing the hostage.
On the other had we’ve had great stuff; a cop buying a woman a child seat rather than ticketing her. Another, when called about her autistic kid, found out that the family was out of food and money, and got food from a pantry and from his own home for her and her children. I think this represents the best in cop-dom, and I think it is more common that pet killers.
But I think bad cops are rarer than good or mediocre cops. Most folks, including myself, are more inclined to go along to get along. But, in the case of cops, this needs to stop. The bad cops are undermining respect for law enforcement.
Can't be said and done often enough!
Just one of these is enough to tarnish with a very wide brush the reputations of all the good, decent, hard working men and women who truly do serve their neighbors.
People wearing badges who kill family in cold blood (rare to meet a dog owner who doesn't consider their dog a member of their family), and then hide behind the badge and the thin blue line to get away with it, destroy community good will and trust for LEOs and exchange them for hatred and hostility.
Individuals like this should have never been hired and now are an enemy within and to those who encounter them.
This should be the rule-or-thumb for any "dangerous" breed.
The owners especially need to be responsible...
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