from A Clockwork Orange
Alex's former droogs find the perfect new job.
Posted on 10/01/2010 3:37:26 PM PDT by triumphant values
(09-30) 18:25 PDT OAKLAND -- Mary Kate Hallock arrived at her Oakland hills home after running errands Tuesday and found a blue note fluttering on her front door.
"Oakland police responded to your residence to investigate a burglar alarm," the handwritten note read. "While circling the rear perimeter, lab advanced on officers in a threatening manner before being shot and killed."
"Lab" was Gloria, an 11-year-old, arthritic yellow Labrador Hallock's family had owned since she was a puppy. Oakland police shot Gloria three times with a 40-caliber Glock handgun in the family's backyard while responding to a false burglar alarm at the property. The dog, police said, growled and barked at them.
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‘Growled and barked at them’....is that not what dogs are supposed to do?
Test their paramilitary-wannabe @$$es for steroids, seriously. A police force is no place for roid rage.
Sixteen years ago when my dad was murdered the local police went into his house while he was still missing. In the house was a huge white lab mix who was a bit aggressive. When my dad’s roommate got home he noticed the dog had red eyes. He guesses they pepper sprayed him. That wasn’t a big deal considering thr circumstances. Thankfully, they knew better back then.
It is probably a bad policy that is simply being photocopied and imitated from one department to another. Police have their fashion trends too. It may have had some justification in some situations dealing with drug traffickers and their pit bulls, but then is mechanically applied in every circumstance whether justified or not.
It warrants investigation, and needs to be suppressed.
When people come to actually hate and distrust their law enforcement, the results are bad for everybody.
I’ll bet the farm;
The officer involved in the shooting is suspended with pay until a through investigation by internal affairs deem it a reasonable response by the officer.
After the lab went to give the shooter a lick.
And the shooter feels like a big man.
It seems that’s what’s replacing the older cops who got things done by politeness and patience, but without giving an inch on their duty.
They are too f’n lazy AND stupid.
Just a guess, but I'd say law enforcement better start rethinking their military style tactics against the American people.
“The dog, police said, growled and barked at them.”
I guess this is what dogs are supposed to do when a stranger shows up on your property.
I wonder if they ever heard of pepper spray. I mean, I can see a pit bull or something but a Yellow Lab?
There is way too much of this going on. They can’t all be vicious.
Get someone who needs a job and has some talent with animals to handle the dog. There ought to be a few of them around with the unemployment rate what it is.
Fixed your typo for ya.
Where’s PETA ?
Have the rookie rapidly grab it by the scruff with one hand, control the muzzle with the other, drop and throw a leg over it. It's an arthritic Lab for Pete's sake, not the Hound of the Baskervilles.
there is pepper spray on the market that will deter a bear for crying out loud.
>>”As local LEOs become more and more militarized with all of the latest SWAT toys...”<<
Sad, but true.
Quick and true story. Friends of ours have a son that works at the local jail. We were all sitting around the campfire down on their property a couple of months ago and the son (LEO) was there. I overheard him saying to a friend that “We GOT to taze a guy the other night...it was pretty cool”. Not “We HAD to taze a guy the other night...”.
My ‘fuse’ has grown longer as the years pass, but I really do think that if a cop shot and killed my old dog (and my very best friend) I would be all over him in a heartbeat and would surely be arrested for assault.
Like some other freepers have said, there are better ways to restrain a dog that they perceive as a threat. This “shoot the dog first” crap has to stop! Cops have become, for the most part, more of a detriment to a situation than an asset.
IMO, it’s better to take care of the threat yourself and then call the Coroner to come with his body-bag to clean up the mess rather than call the police.
Alex's former droogs find the perfect new job.
These crimes by LEO’s will only continue to increase until folks get so much crap rubbed in their faces that they can no longer breathe. But until then, family pets will continue to be shot along with deaf people who fail to hear and follow their commands and mentally retarded folks too, like the case in Arkansas. Nothing will change but only worsen until “We The People “ take a stand, and I don’t see that happening.
“It seems that’s what’s replacing the older cops who got things done by politeness and patience, but without giving an inch on their duty.”
From the 1970s I worked with many police and police departments, mostly rural, as a supplier of radio communications systems.
In those days, police were great guys and fun to be with.
I left the USA in 2005, and by that time, police, even in small rural towns, had become more like jack booted thugs.
I think the plethora of violent TV cop shows may have helped produce the current crop of thugs.
They sure are not Andy of Mayberry anymore.
GGGGggggrrrrrrr.
Don't like quoting mao but the SOB was right on this
one day the camels back is going to break and the US public is going to replay Lexington and Concord
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