[beltfed308]

Another one? Is there a special season on critters we do not know about?

[Windsong]

"...but it's like a human being."

In the same way an ant is, or a bee, or a fly, a roach, a skunk, a squirrel. Where do they get these idiots??

[Mr. Mojo]

Great Pyrenees

One of the finest breeds in dogdom.

I see cops are doing a lot of walking into backyards unannoucned these days.

[SolidSupplySide]

I'll say this. I place much more value on the safety of a Houston police officer than I do on the life of a dog.

[Nov3]

The Memphis police are well known dog killers. They were looking for a burglary susect a few years ago and they couldn't get into a backyard because of a "vicious" dog. Thinking the suspect may have been in there (with the vicious dog!) they shot it. No amount of explaining can make me understand why they didn't get the family (who was home) to put it up. The family was more thana little upset.

p.s The burglar was not in the yard with the "vicious" labrador retreiver.

[WideGlide]

DEJA VOUS?

[Sofa King]

"Police cited them for failure to release the dog to animal control as required by law."

Real PR genuises here. It makes you wonder if they even care about the public.

[philomath]

Not only do we shoot your dog, we rub your face in it with a citation.
Normally i'm cop-supportive, but most of these guys are taught that it's ok to shoot any animal they feel "threatens" them, regardless of the circumstances or illegality of their presence.
My fav is still the tennessee dog shooting, where a family was mistakenly (crimial negligence for anyone else) arrested, cuffed and placed on their knees with their van door left open in spite of pleas to close it. Guess what?? Their dog got out of the van wagging its tail and some jackboot shot it. We don't need to look abroad for terrorists: we have them in our own backyards.

[shiva]

"It's a pet, but it's like a human being.

Just Damn!

[ambrose]

The dog bit the Officer K.K. Miller on his left wrist so he shot him in the leg.

Here, it appears that Officer Friendly shot the dog IN RETALIATION for being bit.

[stylin19a]

you're on a roll !

[beltfed308]

I would bet that the dog was on a yard walk leash. If anything a bad guy was not going to get past the dog anymore than the cop. So why did the cop not go to the front door?

The officer must have been blind and deaf thereby creating the incident in my opinion.

[eastforker]

It is not required by law that animal control be given the dog, taking it to a private vet where it can be quarantined is sufficeint. Do they just make it up as they go along, sheesh.

[mmercier]

So the coppers shot a mutt.

I presently have two; one of them delivering me 12 stitches to the hand while trying to break him of a particularly annoying behavior trait.

His hole was dug, and this one handed "murderer" was ready to cap him and bury him quick...

Mom "saved" this mutt, only because she promised I would go to jail if I did him in... BTW, her (my mother's) father killed dogs and cats, and mink, and ground hog, and weasel, and swine, and sheep, and bovine, and fisher, and coon, and squirrel, and opossum..... like I kill steamers and hens.

Never harass any person that kills a dog after bitten, especially a copper or a watermetereader. >>Click to watch video << Skip it. I'll make my own later...

[AlexW]

Over last 5 to 10 years I have noticed a distinct change in
the makeup of one's local police, at least in my part of west Tennessee.
What use to be the friendly good old boy policeman has been replaced by the jackboot jerks that are on an ego trip.
Even in the small rural towns, they now dress like they are on a swat team, run constant speed traps in sleepy little towns, and basically have a real nasty attitude, as if YOU are there to serve them.
At times, I think they are a bigger threat then the criminals.

[thoughtomator]

I see this as a stupid homeowner problem. If you have a dog for protection and a burglar alarm, exactly what do you expect the dog to do when someone comes to check out the alarm?

[carolinacrazy]

Sorry to see so many cold hearted people out today. For those of us who have pets, and for those who leave them outside all night (your god given prerogative, unless they bark all night, then you should be the one with a cap in your backside), it would be devastating to have this happen. If there is any fault here, and I am not sure there is any (what ever happened to accidents) it would lay squarely on the cop. Maybe next time have your mace pulled.