Posted on 05/19/2012 3:15:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Police are investigating after an officer was forced to shoot and kill a dog.
The incident occurred in the area of 670 NW 128 Court, at around 6 p.m. Tuesday.
The owners of the Dutch Shepherd named Bosha were not home at the time, and the dog somehow found its way out of the home. A neighbor spotted the dog underneath his car and became concerned and called police.
Police then arrived on the scene and shot and killed the dog.
Bosha's owner, Odalys Gonzalez, came home to find her dog dead. "The officer went after the dog, OK, and that's when obviously the dog went again after him, and this time he shot the dog. The officer doesn't have any injuries," said Gonzalez.
As of now, Miami-Dade Police can only confirm that an officer did shoot and kill the dog and are investigating.
What are you doing about it? After all, it is you who does not wish us to discuss the police-head of the government-hydra in a negative fashion.
I’m gonna call Eric Holder and tell him you need him and want him, LOL.
How fascinating, that your “threat” is to call government. I’m noticing a pattern.
One of the problems we have now in our society is the whole “we ought to have a law” mentality. It has made almost everything a police matter and as you said, you are inviting a paramilitary force to solve your problem.
My family will no longer call police for almost anything. There is almost no problem that can’t be made worse by injecting the police.
No, the police killing our dogs “at will” spreads negativity.
Whatever you do, don’t do anything productive. Just sit around and depress everyone.
Take it to the state board, organize, and do something about it.
Depression isn’t the response that compels one to try to distract a Conservative Hero from the threat of the police-head of the government hydra.
Allegiance to said hydra would explain such a motivation; depression does not.
Thanks for the ping, Joe.
First they came for the dogs; what will it take for enough conservatives to rise up against this.
Will the next victims be the parents, so that their children may be taken from “abusive” conservative homes by agents of the State to be Wards of the State?
Will conservative parents be viewed then by officers as dogs are increasingly viewed by them today: shoot on sight, claim to be threatened?
Clearly, this is a test being leveled across the nation: will we roll over and go back to sleep and ignore this head of the hydra, or will we remain awake and work to rid our nation of this beast?
Yea, that’s been working so well so far. Fact is, the police are becoming our masters at doing their bidding and they are protected in every way!
The police should conduct marksmanship qualification at the county animal shelter. Kill 2 birds with one stone.
No, that’s the opposite extreme. The police do have value, great value, in performing a paramilitary role.
There are just far too many criminals, mentally ill, and agitators for the public to routinely have to deal with on their own. Add to that almost everybody at some point needs external protection because they cannot adequately defend themselves.
Add also that police are persistent, and will pursue crimes in which the villains escape, in a determined fashion, as well as remember who did what to whom.
Also that they are in effect, officers of the courts, which exist to objectively mediate conflicts to prevent bloodshed and feuds, as well as provide extended punishment to offenders.
This all goes back to the judgment of the citizen, about when they decide to involve the police in circumstances. The public today is too relaxed about summoning them, which is asking for trouble.
Most people should, in their lives, rarely have any need to ask for the police. In most cases, when most people do summon the police, they have a good reason to do so.
But in the original article, a woman saw a dog under a car, so she called police. When an officer arrived on scene, he could have asked her what she expected him to do about it?
Had he been more thoughtful, he might have called animal control, who are equipped to do such a thing; but his choice, as a paramilitary, was to deal with it in a paramilitary manner.
To put that screw in its screw hole with a hammer.
Well, you just sit in a circle and complain about it. That’ll help everybody out. And then spread the misery. That’ll be the smart thing to do.
If you find this thread miserable, why are you still here?
Rational, emotionally healthy people do not revisit topics which depress them.
Those who wish to suppress topics they dislike have a very strong intrinsic motivation for repeatedly returning to controversial threads, however.
Your mind is wandering.
Take this stuff to the state board and make a plan to handle your own local problems. It will ease your dark mood.
Thank you for verifying that this thread doesn’t truly depress you and thank you for giving this thread more views.
When is this insanity going to stop!?
We are raising awareness right here.
I would put a bumper sticker on my car saying “Please don’t shoot my dog, officer” but that would probably get my dog shot.
Bear in mind, the average person doesn’t know about all of these incidents.
We Freepers are abnormal; we pay closer attention to this (and other) problems in America than do many of our countrymen.
Until that officer shot the dog under the car, it very likely never occurred to that lady that the police officer never would do such a thing.
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