These stories make me angry. They are also troubling in a "first dogs, then people" sort of way.
This disregard for life and property, as well as what could be a willful desire to cause emotional trauma, perhaps in order to "keep them down", seems to be on the rise against we, the "civilians", here in this obamanation at the same time our GuvCo is building an ever growing police state.
These stories are yet another signpost along the road we've been put on. All roads lead somewhere. Where's this one going?
If those police act like Nazi scum, it is because they are cut from the same cloth.
Yet more proof — if more were needed — that there is NO situation that cannot be made WORSE by the presence of the cops.
How many innocent people are shot by cops every year, including mistaken identities, or unnecessary shootings? Cops who can shoot a dog when it isn’t necessary will shoot people when it isn’t necessary, if they think they can get away with it.
Farmville is an actual place? Is it just up the road from Bingo Blitz, North Carolina?
Funny how we don’t hear of letter carriers, UPS or FedEx delivery folks, being attacked by dogs. The police must have some sort of rabid dog attractant that they use.
This is ridiculous. I’ve done work in the past that required going door-to-door and one should just expect to encounter many family dogs. Most bark a little and shuffle around, then settle down, but a very tiny percentage actually become threatening. The only vicious acting dogs I ever encountered were chained or behind a fence.
These cops should be prepared to encounter dogs and deal with them in some way other than shooting them. And there are people who dogs seem to instinctively trust, or not. That might have something to do with it when an arrogant cop enters someone’s yard.
We need a law that warrants get delivered by the post office.
I live in the country and have a 130lb 6 yr old purebred golden. The worst he has done is step on my foot standing close to be petted. I hope to never have a deputy come to the property. The retriever is free on a quarter acre fenced in area where the house sits and you have to open a gate to get into it. I know my boy would get shot, anyone that comes into ‘his’ area will be approached with one of his favorite toys or stuffed animals in his mouth, tail wagging furiously and an ominous sounding low growl daring them to take the toy and play tugawar. He has 2 yorkies he grew up with at 7 and 10lbs each and 2 grandsons that grew up around him. Worst he ever did was knock them over as toddlers with his wagging tail.
The play growl of his I am sure would be his death warrant.
He is epileptic and swacked out on phenobarbitol to control his seizures, but I know he’d get shot only because of his size.
Hate hate hate cops who shoot dogs. Hope this one gets a just reward or better, and soon.
Any LEO that shoots a Golden Retriever deserves to be laughed off the force.
The fact the department supports him is just as despicable as the shooting.
The question that society needs to ask itself is do we want a police force that serves and protects, or one that intimidates?
The police are still at the mercy of the purse strings controlled by politicians; and the politicians are at the mercy of the voters. There is no federal law that says the public needs to spend half of a community budget on law enforcement. When the public gets fed up enough it will demand politicians cut budgets and the force. The public still controls the police. Their ineptness is causing major lawsuits and costing citizens and loss of respect.