300-pound officer felt threatened by 12-pound terrier, killed her

http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/10/300-pound-officer-felt-threatened-by-12-pound-terrier-killed-her/ ^ | 10/10/2013 | http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/10/300-pound-officer-felt-threatened-by-12-pound-terrier-killed-her/

[dragnet2]

A Georgia police officer shot and killed a tiny Jack Russell Terrier that he claims threatened him during a routine probationary checkup on Monday.

The officer, Antoine Jones, is over six feet tall and weighs nearly 300 pounds. Patches, the dog he killed, weighs just 12 pounds, according to a local news channel.

Jones visited the Albany residence of Cherrie Shelton earlier this week to check on her son, who is serving probation. Upon Jones’s arrival, two-year-old Patches approached the officer and began barking. Shelton claims she told Jones that Patches was no threat, but the officer drew his weapon and shot the dog anyway.

After being shot, Patches fled and hid, eventually succumbing to her wounds.

According to Jones’s statement, Patches advanced toward him in a threatening manner even after receiving “multiple verbal commands to get back.”

But Shelton said this was not Jones’s first visit to the home, and the officer should have known that Patches was harmless.

Shelton buried Patches, and has plans to buy a cross to mark her grave. The dog is missed, she said.

[Robert Teesdale]

Of course, feel free.

Anything ever posted, anywhere, by anyone, is the equivalent of shouting on a streetcorner. That said, anything ever communicated privately, ever, is now also either NSA-approved or not... interesting times we inhabit.

[FBD]

“Interesting” times indeed. :-(