Posted on 05/25/2013 9:31:15 PM PDT by Altariel
On a chilly night in late February in Fishers, Ind., Patricia McConnell was taking her daughter’s 7-year-old, 20-pound terrier mix, Reese, out for a midnight potty.
Reese was harnessed and on a retractable leash, but as she bounded ahead around a corner, the dog saw a neighbor and started to bark. Unfortunately, this neighbor was Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal William “Buzz” Brown. Reese was able to bark only two times before the deputy shot the leashed dog twice.
Brown, who says he felt threatened, was two feet away from the dog when he thought she might attack him. Amazingly, Reese survived. However, because she was shot at such a close range, Reese’s front left leg and shoulder had to be removed, and her back left leg was left shattered. The vet bills reached $10,000.
Patricia McConnell said the shooting was so unexpected that she feared that if she said anything, the officer would fire at her as well. Her daughter, Deborah Twitty, told Fox59 that they live in fear of their neighbor. “I’m afraid he’s going to retaliate,” she said of the deputy.
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They are at risk from their cohabitants, because minors are not being trained to be responsible citizens as it was 50 or more years ago. It is also from this pool that police academies must draw. So ... any democracy bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction ---
“Having been at the range next to uniformed and plainclothes cops a number of times, most of them can’t hit the broad side of anything, much less a barn.”
Having been the same place I can agree. I shoot better than most cops, and more often. If you see a cop at a public range it usually means he has qualification coming up and is worried he won’t make it.
Cops shoot dogs because they can. Far too many cops today are POS. You can trace this directly back to the relaxing of hiring standards required by affirmative action in the 1980s. Not enough of America’s most cranky and privileged minority group were being hired so rather than suggest they find another line of work, courts ordered departments across the country to lower their hiring, and promotion, standards. The cops you see today are the direct result. Thirty years ago they wouldn’t have made the cut, today they shoot dogs because it makes them feel powerful and they know they can get away with it.
One of those jack booted thugs shoots my dog and I will make it my mission to see he pays.
Strange how many dogs spend years not “charging” at neighbors, the postman, garbage man or Avon lady, yet suddenly upon seeing the cops, get the urge to attack them. Sure. Just the Gestapo. No one else.
There are some hobbyist groups you just can’t reason with. Dog owners are one, especially about their favorite breed. (Usually a dog’s bad behavior is due to a lack of knowledgeable training by its owner.) So just don’t bother trying.
It’s doctrine. “Doctrine” means “teaching”, mind you. They are taught to do this, and I have no doubt that they are instilled with fear of the idea of deviating from this doctrine. So once they are told that they should shoot the dog preemptively, they fear the consequences of not doing so, even when it is clear to them, as independent thinking agents, that the dog is not a real threat, because what if it is after all? And what if they are asked, why didn’t you shoot it like you were taught to?
Oh your opinion doesn’t count because ypu are obviously an evil pothead. /s
Oh please...
The cop was not justified unless you extend that justification to ANY citizen who feels threatened.
There is nothing that gives a cop the power to shoot neighbor's dogs only because he carries a gun and is a cop. The cop is not a privileged citizen with special rights.
If *feeling threatened" is his bar for shooting a dog ar home, it's the bar for everyone with a gun.
-PJ
Duh!
Buddy, are you a halfwit? I have an 18 lb CAT....a dog the size of him roughly would be extremely hard put to have the size and strength to hurt a child in summer clothing, let alone a cop in a typical uniform. Merely closed shoes and pants would provide enough protection, even figuring the animal was vicious, which there’s no proof this one was!
If he could shoot the black dog twice it wan’t that damn dark. Admit it you hate dogs.
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You don't go to the range much..do ya? Cops win battles where they own a tremendous advantage in weapons and numbers. Now...The LE where I live...Douglas county Georgia...are country boys that grow up hunting like the rest of us did...are as a group much better shots than LE in NYC or Chicago.
But they ain't even close to the best in the county. And to their credit..they have not joined the dog killing craze like most LE have...again..because they are country boys.
I should have read more comments but the ditch dark comment got me. looks like you beat me to it. :)
The evolutionary purpose of dogs living with humans is they provide an early alert an impending raid by other humans. Police hate dogs because they blow their surprise advantage during raids. Police departments are now buying gun silencers for the sole purpose of shooting dogs without blowing their cover. The mistake they made in Waco is when the raid started they immediately shot the dogs. From the perspective of the occupants the attackers opened fire first. Their natural reaction was to return fire and defend themselves.
The perspective was the same for the attackers.
Same as Ruby Ridge. Sniper shot and killed his wife as she held their baby. The attackers here and there fired first. Surprisingly the said same sniper was at both locations.
It's a police state. Our govt burned 70 some odd American Citizens alive, and nothing happened to them!
FWIW, there was a full moon on Feb. 26.
Not my Cassie. She loves every one and every animal and they are all her very best friend. She will run up to perfect strangers and demand to be petted and cuddled. We have tried to break her of this but it is just her personality
Bottom line is, if you love your dog and the police come onto your property, put your dog on a short leash, especially if your dog is a pitbull or looks like a pitbull.
Cops don’t practice that much. Trust me on this, I know. Their advantage is body armor.
I practice a LOT more than 99.9% of law enforcement in the US does.
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