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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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
So they barge in and violate property and double down killing the dog. Wow. Talk about some psychos.
It is called Cop Block... A bit liberal defensive but eye opener...
So do I! As if shooting a dog in the BACK is not bad enough, the dog was heading for his owner, so the MORON (s) put an innocent person’s life in peril!
From the story, it sounds like yelling at the dog would have been turned it away.
But what fun is that?
People will be next up on the target list.
Waiting for the “cops are always right apologists” to appear in 3...2...1...
But hey, at least THEY made it home safe.
I said this to a “Cops are always right” Freeper and his head almost exploded...
That's how Ruby Ridge started. FBI thug shoots dog/kid shoots FBI thug/kid gets shot in back. Then the real nastiness begins...
Is that you, Lon?
it’s like there’s some kind of signally going on between
all these dog killers. like a “jihad on dogs” (happening
in Spain too)
fugitives are less dangerous. what really alarms me are
reports not of “shelter in place” but “everyone out of
your house” general alarms. personal communitication,
don’t have a cite
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