Posted on 07/07/2011 11:28:16 AM PDT by Immerito
UPDATE 7:47 p.m. Sept. 13: The Washington Post has obtained the police report on the incident. It describes the dog as appearing "to be out of control" and says the dog "charged" at the officer before it was fatally shot.
10:16 p.m. Updated with a statement from Third District police that conflicts with the dog handler's spokesman's statement, and an e-mailed statement from the handler himself.
There's never a shortage of police officers at Adams Morgan Day, just in case someone gets out of hand. Today, that someone was a dog.
An officer with the D.C. police department shot and killed a dog — possibly a rottweiler or pit bull — outside The Brass Knob antique store at 2311 18th St. NW. The shooting followed an intense, two-minute scuffle between the dog and what witnesses describe as a "smaller" white dog.
In dispute of the what the dog's handler has said, police tonight released a statement saying the dog was out of control and also bit the handler. Here's the entire e-mail from Third District Capt. Aubrey P. Mongal:
Earlier this afternoon, during the Adams Morgan Day events, an MPD officer encountered a dog in the crowded pedestrian area that got out of the control of it’s handler. The dog attacked another dog and also bit it handler. The officer, after making several attempts to subdue the dog by training tactics, had to finally shoot one time to stop the dog.
On the contrary, says the handler, who only wants to be identified as Aaron. In an e-mail to TBD, Aaron said the apparent foster dog, Parrot, didn't bite anyone.
In my recollection and as the eyewitness accounts will coroborate, the dog was completely under my control when the k9 officer removed me. Parrot bit no human, the only blood he drew was when i thrust my hand into his mouth to get him off the other dog. The k9 officer's injury, which he showed me at the station after, was nothing more than a rope burn from Parrot's leash, suffered when the officer was throwing my dog down a flight of stairs.
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier, in an earlier response to an e-mail from advisory neighborhood commissioner and candidate for the Ward 1 D.C. Council seat Bryan Weaver, said three people, including a K9 officer, were bitten by the dog. Here's an excerpt of the e-mail:
I don't know all of the facts at this point so it is very difficult for me to comment beyond the facts that I have been given. All I know is that there is one dog who was attacked by the pit bull and 3 people, including a K9 officer, that were bitten by the pit bull.
Police sources had earlier told ABC 7 the officer who shot the dog was a canine handler who was experienced with dogs. He was trying to separate the dogs, and attempted to choke hold the larger dog. While he was trying that, the dog attempted to bite him or did bite him, and he threw him down the stairwell in an attempt to injure the dog. The dog charged the officer and the officer opened fire, the sources said.
An unidentified spokesperson for the dog's handler said the cop didn't try hard enough to subdue the dog.
In an e-mail to TBD, Weaver said the dog had seemed friendly at his booth at the festival just 15 minutes before the incident:
"Aaron is a good guy, he said he had the dog under control and the cop grabbed it from him and threw him down the well at [Marie] Reed and shot him. Dog was playing with kids at my booth 15 min earlier. Aaron is really shaken."
One witness, 46-year-old Harriet Winslow, said that at first, she saw the two dogs — the white-sandy pitbull-looking dog and a cute white fluffy lap dog — barking and fighting.
"Everybody glanced over and the owners of these dogs were frantically trying to pull them apart. We're all looking concerned. Suddenly, the owner of the pitbull was down on the ground trying to subdue his dog. He was really trying hard — I have to give him credit. He was on the ground wrapping his arms around the dog. I could see him down on the ground. I mean he was really trying."
After the two dogs were pulled apart, Winslow says she could see that the smaller dog was fine. But the dogs were still barking at each other.
Then a cop appeared.
"I glanced over again and I saw a very able bodied police officer fully a stride the dog — the cop straddling dog. The pitbull was still animated, still trying to get up. But this cop — I thought 'Wow this guy is good at this, he subdued a really angry dog.' Then I thought 'Good, this is now over.' Then I walk just five or 10 feet away and I hear a gun shot."
Before she heard the shot, she said she thought "the cop was totally in control. ... It's not something I would want to do. He really was on top of this dog."
Noah Siegel, who works at nearby Spaghetti Garden restaurant, says he saw "two or three cops" surrounding the dog. One of the officers, says Siegel, had the dog on a leash and attempted to drag it away from the commotion.
The dog began "trying to attack the cop," says Siegel. "Next thing I knew, they had it down there in the corner and I heard a shot and that was it," says Siegel, who was interviewed by ABC 7's Brianne Carter.
An onlooker who attempted to intervene in the dogfight sustained a scrape or two. "He's fine," reports ABC 7's Carter.
“It is not an environment for pittbulls and/or rottweilers.”
Some guys just can’t get by without their four-legged penis extensions.
Why would you suppose that this thread is not about either of the two dogs involved?
“There is no reason that an honest, honorable cop should object to having the actions of a dishonest, dishonorable cop exposed.”
Unless they are corrupt as well.
“There is no reason that an honest, honorable cop should object to having the actions of a dishonest, dishonorable cop exposed.”
Unless they are corrupt as well.
“And you will likely go to prison for a very long time.”
Not if I’m on the jury.
Wrong discussion. The “other poster” he referred to said THIS:
“Any man who shoots a dog is a coward.. Period.”
A stupid, glib statement all too typical of the many people who have little true respect for The Dog; their other favorite glib statements include “Dog is God spelled backwards” and “Dogs just so unconditionally love us”. Those along with the above ignore that dogs do in fact kill people intentionally (and not just because they “were brought up badly”); there are 2 sides. Respecting a dog, like a wild tiger, includes recognizing all it’s capable of, good or bad.
A corrupt cop would not meet the qualifications of honesty and honor.
There is plenty of reason for a corrupt cop to object to having the actions of a dishonest, dishonorable cop exposed-—he/she fears having his/her own decisions and actions likewise exposed.
What do you penis infatuated butt packers say when a woman owns the dog?
I would put it otherwise (”Unnecessarily and unlawfully shooting a dog should not be tolerated”).
Frankly, I think the perimeter of the area where the festival is held should be posted with no animals/bikes, etc. signs.
You do understand that the dog wasn't shot as punishment for starting the fight, right? The dog was shot because he was out of control and had already attacked three people and another dog.
Well, on one hand, we've got some kid who lost control of his dog, and according to the only witness was on the ground wrestling with the dog. The dog owner's "spokesperson" (never called a witness) said the police officer "didn't try hard enough" to subdue the dog. The photo you mention is just that, a photo, the image of one 100th of a second.
Lastly, in case you missed it, the officer was a K9 officer who is EXTENSIVELY trained in dog handling. Why would someone who's put in for a highly coveted, demanding position as a K9 handler go out and maliciously shoot a dog?
Somehow, I'll take the version of the highly trained K9 officer, the witness, and the owner's "spokesperson", which all report an out of control dog.
yes on top of all that we know the cop threw the dog down the stairs with the intention of causing injury and then shooting it.
we also know the general proclivities cops have for shooting dogs
Well, why don't you find out and tell us? The article did say there's never a shortage of cops at the Adams Morgan day - right at the very beginning in fact, just before it says the dog got out of hand.
Also, the designation "K9 cop" means a cop specially trained as a dog handler, not "two or three cops" as you seemed to deduce.
I guess that's why they're one of the few professions that not only partners with dogs, but deputizes them as fellow officers.
Your hatred for cops has so blinded you that you've lost all touch with facts and reason.
“Your hatred for cops has so blinded you that you’ve lost all touch with facts and reason.”
Assumptions are dangerous, hopefully you aren’t a detective as you can’t see figure out stuff for squat.
Sucks to be a public servant doesn’t it.
Yeah, what could possibly lead anyone to think that a person who believes a K9 officer would have a proclivity for shooting dogs might be blinded by cop-hatred?
Your words.
It's funny how you state that assumptions are dangerous and then, in the same breath, make the assumption that I'm a police officer.
I've never been so angry that I couldn't think straight, but I've seen it in others.
“Two or three cops” was not my deduction, but the observation of an eyewitness.
Since “two or three cops” were described as being at the scene, it is clear that they decided the most important criminal matter at hand was forcibly removing one dog from its owner who was calming his dog after a common dogfight.
Why did a K9 officer tackle the dog as though he were a human perp and did not grab the dog’s hind legs? The K9 officer, because of his training, should be expected to know such a procedure.
Furthermore, why did a K9 officer, who presumably should know that dogs respond best to their alphas, forcibly remove a dog from its alpha, a decision certain to intensify the dog’s fear and aggression?
“The article did say there’s never a shortage of cops at the Adams Morgan day -”
Apparently there is a surplus of cops at the Adams Morgan festival, if intervening in an already broken up dogfight was important enough to draw the attention of “two or three cops”.
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