Posted on 11/22/2024 12:56:23 PM PST by Morgana
A Tennessee man is grieving the deaths of his seven dogs who were shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy while the owner and his wife were out to dinner.
On Monday, Nov. 4, Kevin Dismuke and his wife left their home in McNairy County to go to dinner, Fox 13 reports.
When his wife returned to their home on Finger Leapwood Road, she called him with shocking news.
“She said, ‘Poe is dead,’” he said, referring to one of their pet dogs.
According to News 3, Dismuke said he returned home to find all of his dogs except one were dead.
“They were told the property was abandoned and the dogs were malnourished,” Dismuke added, News 3 reports. “I got the veterinary paperwork in my truck from three weeks ago. They all had a clean bill of health on them.”
Dismuke said a neighbor told him a deputy came to his house while he was gone and shot the dogs, Fox 13 reports.
Dismuke and his family are heartbroken over the deaths of their beloved dogs.
“I don’t care if you give me $10 if you give me $10 million," he told News 3. "You can’t replace my dogs.”
According to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, which launched an investigation on Nov. 7, the incident began when the McNairy County Sheriff’s Department received an animal welfare concern call on Nov. 4.
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If this deputy did this to my dogs, he would have made the biggest mistake in his life if he did not kill me too.
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Perfectly understandable, and someone who thinks like you and I do may make him regret that he was ever born. And actually, that sort of payback is relatively common in cases where animals are involved.
No there aren't. The only questions being asked are the stupid internet sleuths who constantly say "there's more to this story....."
Could that be you?...Sheesh!
The other article said that in the first shooting incident, the “muzzle flash and the sound of gunfire” was the suspect committing suicide, but the trigger happy police officer, still in his initial probationary period, returned fire.
Sure looks like an abandoned trailer to me. I suspect they kept the dogs there, but didn’t live there. It was a flipping trailer, with grass as high as 6 feet around it. Likely completely surrounding it for several feet, before it was mowed to establish a way to sue. Just my guess, I don’t know why he shot the dogs, probably didn’t think they had owners.
It seems like he was a total ass, but I want to see more evidence before condemning him to death by Media.
I had a yellow Lab who got Parvo, died just after I got to the vet. It was 25 years before I got another animal.
Yessir, I had a friend who had a Shepherd/Wolf hybrid. He worked nights, one day he came home and the dog was gone. I still feel guilt, but he went after my Daughter.
The dogs were in campers. The deputy shot the dogs while he was outside the campers with no warrant. One dog lived because it hid under a bed.
Six months earlier, the deputy worked for the Jackson Police Department and was investigated for two improper uses of his firearm. The policeman/deputy shot at a person who had committed suicide just because he saw a muzzle flash and the gun report. The other shooting resulted in an unwarranted death. The Police Chief would not hire the fool after the Probationary Period and allowed the policeman to resign.
I don't want to hear anything that idiotic deputy has to say.
He had only worked for the department for less than a month - AND HE WAS ALLOWED THAT MUCH INDIVIDUAL DISCRETION???
“All the relevant info should be in the excerpt.”
you’ve got a point ... at least for FR ...
When you’ve never been held accountable for your actions before, you tend to do this kind of stuff repeatedly.
Many years ago where I lived, there was a Deputy doing his probationary period who made it known he did not like dogs. On a routine call he told people to make sure their dog was put in the house or he would shoot it. That got a quiet but firm on the spot correction by the road officer he was riding with.
He made similar comments at another call a few weeks later except this time he made the comments (unbeknownst to him) a member of the Board of Supervisors. Another on the spot correction but unfortunately for him the Supervisor put a bug in the ear of the Chief Deputy. Between those two incidents and some others, he had a temperament issue ( unsure why that wasn’t caught in the police academy). He resigned but he had already been notified he had failed his probationary period. As far as I know he never worked in LE again.
I PREDICT someone, other than the Owner of the dogs, will "KILL or F-UP" this DEPUTY as an ACT of JUSTICE and REVENGE!
Auditioning for a job with PETA?
The incident was captured on his body camera, according to the affidavit.
On Tuesday, Nov. 12, TBI agents obtained warrants for Brackin, charging him with seven counts of aggravated animal cruelty and eight counts of reckless endangerment.
Brackin turned himself in and was booked into the McNairy County Jail but was later released while he awaits his next court date.
He resigned from his job after the arrest, a sheriff’s office employee confirmed to PEOPLE.
He had only worked at the McNairy Sheriff’s Office for a little less than a month when he quit, the sheriff’s office said.
The camper where the dogs were shot, was it also the couple’s home?
What if one of the owners was inside that camper while the cop shot at it.....
Hope a kid doesn’t eat one.
I didn’t realize for many years that was the same actor who played the guitar playing Jim Lindsey on the Andy Griffith Show.
Reading comprehension isn't your strong suit, is it?
Where did I write it's okay.
Do we "murder" cows, when we slaughter them for beef?
How about pigs? Chickens? Turkeys?
Or, do you reserve the term, "murder," exclusively for house pets wrongfully killed by police?
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