Posted on 06/25/2010 4:47:12 PM PDT by Copernicus
Now in concert with the gentle approach of summer Police across the country renew their annual campaign against dogs and other pets.
Knowledgeable readers are familiar with the drill: when they came for the dogs I said nothing for I owned no dogs.
When they came for the cats I said nothing for I owned no cats.
When they came for me, there was no dog or cat owner left to speak on my behalf.
And then, of course, there is the matter of Marksmanship.
In Washington, DC it took seven or eight shots to kill a 13 year old 40 lb dog and in Missouri it took two shots about a minute apart to kill a restrained 60 lb dog at a distance of five feet.
But wait, there is MORE! A North Carolina STATE TROOPER trapped a KITTEN and THEN SHOT IT! Now he wants his job BACK after HE GOT FIRED!
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Best regards to all,
“Police across the country renew their annual campaign against dogs and other pets”
Absolutely, they start building up to this campaign in March with meetings, and sharpshooting practice and all. As the weeks tick on, they begin salivating for that first pet-hunting day when they will surely bag their limit. /s
Pets get shot. Sometimes they have attacked the police. Sometimes it just appears they will do so. And sometimes you have an abberant cop who shoots kittens. But don’t paint police with that kind of broad brush. They aren’t gunning for pets. They own pets probably at the same level as the general population and some have put their lives at risk to save their pets, especially their police dogs.
I may be wrong but isn’t shooting a police dog considered murder?
Shouldn’t these Officers be given the death penalty if found guilty of shooting a family pet? Or is there some unwritten rule that our masters don’t have to obey the law they enforce?
Maybe it is time for us to write some new rules ourselves.
Police dogs are Officers with four legs, and are protected by the same laws as their human counterparts. I think this is a training issue with regards to law enforcement. Cops enter homes and immediately neutralize anything moving towards them, including animals large and small. For any law enforcement official to shoot at let alone kill any dog which can be overcome with a swift kick is downright inexcusable. I recall the recent house crashing of cops looking for marijuana, based on a “tip”. The cops immediately killed a totally harmless dog just doing it’s job of barking at “strangers” entering its domain. It’s acts such as this which give the law a bad name. Turns out, there was no marijuana in the home. I support law enforcement 100%, but there’s no excuse for shooting a non-vicious breed, unlike Pitt Bulls, Rottweilers, Dobermans, etc. None whatsoever.
What kind of man shoots a kitten? Not much of one.
It was no doubt a vicious pit-kitten.
I totally agree but I don’t agree he is representative of cops in general. There are sadists everywhere, in all careers. Cops are not pet haters any more than any other group is.
No doubt... all fierce and scary like. The poor cop shot the kitten in self-defense. What a sissified nancy boy!
No doubt... all fierce and scary like. The poor cop shot the kitten in self-defense. What a sissified nancy boy!
Shouldn’t these Officers be given the death penalty if found guilty of shooting a family pet?
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I’m sure Cass Sunstein thinks so.
You shouldn’t be critical of the cop. You have no idea what it’s like to bust into somebody’s house and be stared down by a fuzzy kitten who was probably even purring at him. I’ll bet it wasn’t even de-clawed. No sir. I don’t see how you can bad mouth the cop ‘til you’ve walked a mile in his jack-boots.
But there is no justifying the killing of a kitten. And a man who do that deserves to be mocked and scorned.
But there is no justifying the killing of a kitten. And a man who do that deserves to be mocked and scorned.
Oh, I didn’t know that the fierce kitten hadn’t been declawed. That changes everything.
Sorry for all the double posts. I don’t know what’s happening.
I don’t have a problem with condemning someone who would kill a kitten. But the original post started with an assertion that police were beginning their “annual campaign against pets”. That’s unfair to cops everywhere. We should no more condemn all cops for this degenerate who killed the kitten that we should condemn any other group for the aberrants in their midst.
Respectfully disagree. There are far too many incidents across the country.
Explain how any Police Force "clearing" a house or a building will not at some point come across a dog who will be naturally hostile to intruders.
The dog will be shot. It is in the nature of department policy and "officer safety" that threats encountered in "dynamic entry warrant service" will be handled expeditiously.
Cops have killed their own K-9s under the influence of this mentality.
It is on the Internet, it must be true.
Best regards,
You know in the heat of battle against "civilians" you can't expect an law enforcement operator to take the time to check a kitten's paws...somebody might flush a reefer down the commode while you're checking! No sir...if we want to raid houses effectively, we need to shoot cats first and ask questions later.
The kitten was probably a catnip abuser anyways so it deserved to be shot.
My problem with the officers isn’t the shooting of the dogs per se.
The common thread is that the officers were executing a legal warrant that was based on erroneous information, and as a result people were falsely imprisoned, kidnapped, traumatized and sometimes shot and killed. Pets were killed and property was damaged and destroyed.
At the very least, the Judge who issued the warrant should be held responsible for his actions. If the Judge and Officers faced criminal sanctions, I guarantee that we wouldn’t hear another one of these stories.
Catnip turns the Bootsman (my cat) into one mean drunk. So, if the little kitten was high on the stuff... well, someone pin a medal on that man! He survived one scary situation.
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