Posted on 12/18/2009 9:38:20 PM PST by Chet 99
Cop's Two Shots Kill Small Dog
By Nicholas Briano
Police fatally shot a small pug dog in the head last week while responding to a call on a quiet Edgemere block, telling superiors that the dog attacked them outside its Beach 43 Street home.
The incident began at 5:33 a.m. last Thursday, October 26, when Patricia Fernandez, who was already awake and getting ready for work, heard shots fired outside her home located on a quiet deadend street.
According to police sources, patrol cars had responded to the house next door on a child endangerment call.
Prior to the cop's arrival at the home next door, Fernandez's daughter-in-law let their 10-year-old pug, named Frank by the family, outside through the backyard at about 5:25 a.m., something they do with regularity. But with the dog off the leash, and police responding to the child endangerment call next door, Frank, weighing no more than 20 pounds, ran along the side of the house toward the police cars and was shot once in the eye and once in the jaw by an unidentified police officer from the 101 precinct.
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I’ve not ever seen a vicious Pug, but I’ll take the officer’s word on it. Tragic situation.
Plugged Pug Ping.
Why did I click on this thread!?!?!?!
Nailing a dog perhaps does not involve the paperwork as from shooting a person, but gives them a rush for shooting something, and is therefore a safe outlet?
Gee, another brave police officer doing his duty. As someone that had the privilege to serve in the capacity as a police officer (for 28 years), I never shot a dog. As a matter of fact, I only fired my weapon once … and missed.
The only thing that surprises me about this story is that it didn’t happen in Florida.
Cuz it’s a slow Friday night and the neigbor’s house has been TP’d already? =)
Some cops just want to shoot something!
Clicked on the story and there is a picture of the dog. Very sad, but I don’t think it is a Pug, might be a mix, but it has a snout.
It really seems lately to be some badge of honor for cops when they kill family dogs. I bet they’re yucking it up bigtime behind the scenes about this. Disgraceful.
Do they get merit badges for shooting family pets now?
My precious young Boxer is asleep on the futon behind me as he does every night.
The J B goons may as well put me down too if it happen at my house.
It is easy to sit back and throw shame at the officer’s but I myself have been in low light situation where I have had a dog run at me and if I had a gun I would have done the same thing. Bottom line, keep your dog on a leash. Also, says the folks have a pit bull, which the officers said charged them but of course the owners say the pit bull was in the house (of course it was).
I wouldn’t take a cops word on absolutely nothing!!!
Not that I’m a breed expert, but it looks like a Puggle (1/2 Pug 1/2 Beagle hybrid).
Sad.
Thought this might rate a “I’m going to kick your ass and get away with it” graphic. Or perhaps some Freeper could come up with an “I’m here to shoot your dog” version.
Don’t take the “officers” word for it. “Officers” just love to use their little bang-bangs to kill things they know they can get away with killing.
I’ll take it that the “officer” is a lying sack of crap.
Cops are the second most dangerous group of people in this country.
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