Posted on 06/27/2014 2:13:46 PM PDT by HammerT
More in contemporary policing practice keeping you and yours safe and sound, out of Mason County, West Virginia, reported in the Charleston Daily Mail:It starts with a bunch of police cars chasing a suspect in a car down a not-much-traveled rural road. A family dog goes to investigate when eight police officers and their dog in tactical gear emerge from the woods near the Sweat family home.
Then:
[Ginger Sweat's] 6-year-old Basset hound/beagle mix, Willy Pete, left the porch and made his way toward the troopers. The dog, she said, suffered from arthritis in his back legs and was not aggressive...
Sweat said she was still inside when she saw the trooper raise a weapon at her dog.
“I ran out my door, jumping up and down screaming ‘don’t shoot my dog, he won’t bite, just let me get him in the house,’” she said.
She said the officer fired one shot toward the dog but missed. She said Willy Pete turned tail and was running back toward her.
“He ran towards me with desperation in his eyes,” she said. “They fired again in my direction. In the direction of my home where my kids were.”
She said three more shots were fired, a total of four shots. Willy Pete, she said, was hit three times. The dog went to the back of the mobile home. Sweat said she found the dog near the air conditioning unit.
“I watched my dog struggle and then die,” she said. “I collapsed in a puddle in the floor, screaming and crying.”
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Every cop who fired a weapon in this instance should be fired.
That’s what struck me - a Basset Hound that was retreating (i.e. posing no threat)
These pieces of crap enjoy doing this. Nothing will convince me they don’t.
If it were my dog, I don’t think I would be able to restrain myself, I really don’t.
Can you say “jury nullification?”
Depressingly common these days. There seems to be no real threat in any of these numerous cases that justifies unleashing gunfire. If you’re a cop and in pursuit of s suspect, there still has to be a smidgen of consciousness remaining to tell you you are potentially invading and endangering innocent parties and their property. God what morons we are producing!
May these bloodthirsty, dog-killing cowards in blue be chased through the fires of Hell for all eternity by huge ravenous packs of equine-sized hellhounds.
There is simply no justification for this. I cannot possibly understand the depths of hatred, cruelty and hubris within the souls of these cops.
And until they become personally liable for these obviously criminal acts, this evil will continue.
I fear that it will only get worse.
This would not have ended pretty at my house. I would just hope I’d have managed to get the perp before the rest of the Stasi attack squad riddled me.
2 of my pet-peeves involving police officers:
1) The shooting of people’s pets with little or not provocation.
2) Really bad marksmanship (that puts the general public at risk).
Have you seen the way they look nowadays? More like cowards dressed as wannabe shoot-em-up military types.
Terrible story. How was Willy Pete a threat when he was running away from them? Sounds like WIlly Pete was shot in the back. Whoever did it should not only lose his job he should spend some time in jail.
We really need a web site for a hall of shame for these types
with their mug shots and what they did listed for all to see.
http://www.charlestondailymail.com/article/20140626/DM01/140629411/1277
“But when she saw two police cruisers speeding down the road, she called her husband to ask him if he knew what was going on. Her husband then called the local State Police detachment to let officers know that his wife and children — aged 18 months and 7 months —were in the home.
“The first time he called they blew him off,” she said. “The second time he called they said they would let the officers know.”
“He told her the officers were looking for Jonathan Jeffers, who reportedly threatened his wife early Tuesday morning, fired a shot at an officer responding to the calls for help and fled in a vehicle.”
No way the police should have shot the dog, as far as I can tell, but with the woman knowing there was a manhunt on, why did she have her dog out on the porch?
It’s everyone inside, lock the doors, and make sure the weapons are loaded time.
That’s called blaming the victim.
What if someone doesn’t know the police are around ready to shoot anything that moves?
There do seem to be more an more of these taking place.
I would have shot that cop dead right in the front yard and any other cop who drew a weapon.
The officer is guilty of murder period. Lock him up for life or use him as target practice.
Unfortunately, in today’s world when the SWAT Team loads up for bear something has got to die! It’s just what they do. If you are unlucky you could be collateral damage.
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