[FreedomCalls]

How many "police shoot dog" stories have we seen recently? And here, the hardened criminals the police were chasing were a bunch of kids throwing water balloons and shot a dog chained up in someone's back yard!

[Politicalmom]

IBJBTD

[FreedomCalls]

And here's more:

Officer Shoots Dog While Looking For Water-Balloon Thrower

(Same intro as the main story, with this at the end)

"Police continue to investigate the water balloon incident. The shooting of the dog is not under investigation because officials said the officer said the dog lunged at him."

WTF??? The "water-balloon incident" needs more extensive "investigation" while they just accept as gospel the word of the officer that the dog lunged at him with the fact that the dog was chained to the porch an insignificant matter??!!

[FreedomCalls]

Another one:

OMAHA, Neb. — The Omaha Police Department said it is conducting a safety review after a police officer shot a dog in the head Tuesday morning.

Police spokeswoman Sgt. Teresa Negron said the officer fired at least one shot after the dog charged at the officer, once before he got on the property, and again when he was leaving the home.

Negron said the officer was investigating the possibility of a stolen vehicle on the owner’s property.

The dog’s owner, Kenneth Loeffler, said the officer completely overreacted. Loeffler said he was in his basement with his dog, Hash, when he heard a knock at the door. He said Hash ran upstairs and out the back door to greet the guest. The next thing he heard were three shots.

“All I heard was gun shots and ran outside. I was thinking I got a drive-by. I honestly thought somebody was shooting at my cars,” said Loeffler.

He said he fixes cars for a living.

Loeffler said he got upstairs and saw an officer put away his gun in his holster. He saw Hash on the ground with a bullet in his head.

“It went in his head, out the back of his head, and back into his rib cage, now it’s lodged in his rib cage,” said Dr. Ernie Summers, a vet who cared for the dog.

“One bullet went into my Blazer — that’s 6-foot away from my baby’s crib. I got a 3-year-old and my wife and my 6-month-old were inside the house,” Loeffler said.

Another bullet hit his neighbor’s house.

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http://www.ketv.com/news/11608985/detail.html

[SevenMinusOne]

Absolutely ridiculous. Officer should be suspended (sans pay) for 30 days. During which time he should decide if he wants to continue to make law-enforcement his chosen career.

[Oztrich Boy]

The copsuckers haven’t shown up yet, but early days.

[Rodney King]

It’s even worse when you consider that throwing water balloons at cars is a great pastime.

[lesser_satan]

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