Wonder if this is the same officer? They sure seem to shoot a lot of dogs in Columbus, Ohio
Columbus Police Officer Fatally Shoots Family Dog
02/19/2014 6:18:42 AM PST · by Altariel · 61 replies
ABC 6 ^ | February 17, 2014 | James Jackson/Kelsey Mallahan
Updated: Monday, February 17 2014, 08:02 PM EST WEST COLUMBUS (James Jackson/Kelsey Mallahan)
— A familys dog was fatally shot Sunday by police officers after they were called to the home because a moving truck was blocking traffic. Brittnay Bergman and Dustin Ramsey just moved into the house on South Wayne Ave. They said when officers came to their door, their three to four-year-old Boxer, Delilah, ran out of the house. “She jumped off the porch, growled at him. Put herself in the corner of our fence and greenhouse,” Ramsey said. Ramsey said that’s when the officer grabbed his weapon....
Woman Says Dog Shot In Face By Columbus Police Officer
11/11/2013 12:03:53 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 14 replies
NBC4i ^ | Nov 09, 2013 | Nadia Bashir
A Columbus woman says she wants answers after a Columbus Police officer allegedly shot her dog in the face Saturday night. Pam Groom says she called CPD’s non-emergency number on Saturday night asking for an officer to come to her home on Wager Street because a suspicious person was in her backyard. According to Groom CPD did dispatch a first set of officers to her home whom Groom describes as very nice. However, later that evening Groom says the suspicious person returned and so did police. According to Groom her dog was shot in its backyard while on a chain....
I wonder if they’ll start giving out little silver shooting badges with a dog on it - then little extra stars for ever ten they shoot.
Do civilian dogs lives matter as much as police dogs lives matter?
Why are police more pussies than mailmen? Step away from the door, ask the owner to leash the dog or put it in a room, and then re-enter.
Well, that's all that matters, right? Dogs run to see who came to visit them. That's what they do. If the cop had just stopped and acknowledged the dog, a little girl wouldn't be in the hospital.
In a previous career, I had to go to people's houses and not once did I ever come close to being bitten.
A English sheep dog ended up latched onto the FTO’s butt inside the house and the rookie fires hitting his FTO in the leg with the bullet passing through and ricocheting and hitting the 11 y/o in the knee. The family dogs end up at the pound, the FTO and the kid go to the hospital and the father is cuffed because he is upset that the PD shot his son. I wonder why. From what I remember the city paid out big time and the rookie kept his job and got 2 weeks paid leave.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Rookie-Cop-s-Shot-Injures-Boy-Parents-Outraged-2798268.php
After Pool Party type incidents I really, really think the US white middle-class WANTS to support the cops.
But after MANY of these types of incidents it becomes difficult.
This particular incident appears to be a real mistake, but many of them are much less so.
A hard society to police is one with a strong cultural undercurrent of (black) chaos, paired with large numbers of (white) people ambivalent about their own cops.
Was it a poodle?
Speaking from a police family, I am thinking these people are not trained well enough or they need more watching.