Posted on 04/25/2014 10:37:07 PM PDT by chrisinoc
RAINS COUNTY, TX (KLTV) - The Rains County Sheriff's deputy who shot a dog after responding to a burglary call on Friday has been fired.
According to the Rains County Sheriff's Office, Deputy Jerrod Dooley was fired on Thursday. Sheriff David Traylor said that it was for Dooley's safety because of threats. He added that it is the safest move for the department and the deputy.
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I’ve heard that if your IQ is too high the Police won’t hire you. They claim its because you become bored to easily.
Right move, wrong reason given.
The sheriff is saying he fired him because he was receiving threats. So will the sheriff resign if threats are made against him?
Dooley should be charged with a crime and fired for misconduct.
So the sheriff fires him not because this coward shot the dog in the back of the head but because of threats for this outrageous shooting.
This sheriff needs to be next to hand in his badge.
Why Are So Many Dogs Being Shot by Police?
Just a few egregious examples:
Late last summer in Spartanburg, S.C., a sheriff’s deputy shot dead an 8-year-old shepherd mix named Diamond who was tied to the front porch. “Why did you shoot my dog?” the owner pleaded. The officer’s response: “She tried to bite me.” Diamond was at the end of her restraint when she was shot, according to the dog’s owner.
One night in April 2011, police in Camden, N.J., sprayed a neighborhood with gunfire to take down a pit bull puppy named Capone — even as one lone police officer pleaded, “Don’t shoot him!” Witnesses say more than 30 bullets were fired, ricocheting across vehicles and piercing a home. “It was like a war zone,” one startled resident recalls.
A Gulfport, Miss., police officer investigating a possible break-in at the house next door fired five or six times at an 11-year-old dog named Melmo in the dog’s own backyard. Making matters worse, Melmo was on a chain that ended “about 30 feet away” from the officer, according to the dog’s owner.
A Newfoundland named Rosie who had escaped from her home was Tased multiple times, then executed by officers in Des Moines, Wash. A dashboard video of the long ordeal shows officers wondering aloud what to do with the dog if they catch her — then they conclude, “We should just shoot [her].” They chase her down to finish the job. Another officer hollers “Nice!” when Rosie is shot. A witness says the officers high-fived one another afterward.
Everything was friendly and conversational when a man in Kingman, Ariz., left his 2-year-old pit bull dog outside with police while he stepped inside his home to retrieve his ID. He told the officers that the dog, Blue, wouldn’t bite and says the officers seemed comfortable. Moments later, there was a loud pop outside. A neighbor says he saw a deputy fire his weapon as the dog casually walked by the group of officers. The neighbor also says he overheard another officer tell the shooter, “Go sit in your cruiser and keep your mouth shut.” The official police report claims the dog was charging and aggressive.
On New Year’s Day of this year, a pit bull mix named Kincaid was barking at a man running from police who had trespassed into his yard. Baltimore police shot six times at the dog; half the shots missed Kincaid and his owner (who was reaching for the dog’s harness) by only inches. Kincaid died on the scene.
A miniature bull terrier puppy named Colonel, who had just wandered out of his home in a bustling Chicago neighborhood, was shot twice by an officer who happened to be out front writing a parking ticket. Multiple witnesses say the puppy was simply sniffing a tree about a car-length away from the police officer who shot him. Colonel is lucky to be alive after five hours of emergency surgery.
Baby Girl, a pit bull mix who was so sweet that one of her best friends was a rabbit, was taken to a dog park on Staten Island, N.Y., when a fight broke out between two other dogs. While those other dogs were being separated, the police were called. When they arrived, witnesses say Baby Girl got scared and ran toward the woods. Officers shot and gravely wounded her. Baby Girl held on through several surgeries as her family prayed she would pull through; however, she died a few days later.
http://www.petsadviser.com/news/dogs-shot-by-police/
Why do cops shoot dogs?
Because they can.
That rings true and is probably applicable to other jobs. Strangely enough, I have read that it applies to airline pilots. That sounds counter-intuitive since they obviously have some complex tasks to perform. OTOH, they are subject to just "riding along" for long periods of time as the plane flies itself, which could be monotonous.
What about the moron who was mugging for the camera?
When I saw that, I thought there is all the evidence we need to fire him for stupidity.
I have wondered in other posts if this dog shooting is being promoted to get the public used to LEOs with guns drawn, and in use. Like the Nazis did. When they showed up, something or someone was gonna get it...
My daddy always told us if we shoot it we have to eat it. If a few of these cops had to eat a dog or two this B.S. would stop real soon.
Woof.
So now Dooley is a civilian with pissed off enemies.
People on FB are spreading his name and photo far and wide.
You couldn’t pay me enough to be him.
Hang down your head, Jer Doolie.
Hang down your head and cry.
Hang down your head, Jer Doolie.
Etc.
“People are obviously getting a belly full of this BS.”
I’m thinking there should be a website that collects and displays ALL cop-shoots-dog reports.
List the shooting particulars, a pic of the pooch, any dash or other videos of the incident.
Oh yeah, also list the officer’s name, home address and contact info. Maybe even find out if the cop owns a dog. Include a picture of the cop for clarification sake.
They can count me in.
That's how my family and all my neighbors were growing up, only exception was poisonous snakes. You didn't take a life just for amusement or sport, you'd better use it or you've just done a bad thing. That was before coyotes started showing up in the area, though. Still, idiots blasting the life out of anything that moves just because they can and leaving the carcass to rot give hunters and gun owners in general a bad name. So, don't do it. Teach your kids not to do it. Shame those you see doing it. If they have a badge, it's even worse.
So now Dooley is a civilian with pissed off enemies.
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He was always a civilian. And another c-word.
Hmmm...officer “friendly” shoots a dog from behind cause he don’t want to get bit...this female officer must not have got the memo.
http://thebarkpost.com/cop-saved-dog/?utm_source=outbrain
Any person who would shoot a dog in the back is psychopath...and IMO, wouldn’t hesitate to do it to a human.
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