Posted on 02/21/2011 6:03:48 PM PST by Immerito
The Clayton County police officer who shot and killed a family's pet did not violate any laws or department policy, an internal investigation concluded.
In December, a golden retriever started barking and running toward an officer on foot patrol. The officer ordered the dog to stop, and when it didn't, he shot and killed the animal in its front yard, police said.
The King family, of Jonesboro, said "Boomer" was contained by an electric fence and barked when people approached. Boomer had never bitten anyone, Lawrene King, a mother of six, previously told the AJC.
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What goes around, comes around.
So, a cop can shoot a pet dog on private property without a warrant, and that’s perfectly okay.
We are to believe the dog didn’t halt on command? Almost as believable as claiming the dog disarmed the cop then turned the weapon on itself in an act of suicide.
I love that song.
No justice for doggie ping.
It'd be a real shame if this cops address found its way into the public domain somehow and he had to look over his shoulder every single day for the rest of his miserable life.
That would be too bad.
“The officer ordered the dog to stop, and when it didn’t, he shot and killed the animal in its front yard, police said.”
I guess he thought all dogs understand English. All the cop has to say is, “I feared for my life,” and it keeps you from being prosecuted for shooting a dog or a human being. Look at the cop who got off for murdering the Indian carver guy in Seattle. We really need to rename them from “police officers” to “hitmen on wheels.”
Like Stalin said, “No man, no problem.” In this case it’s, “No dog, no problem.”
“I like your tagline. Words from ‘Minstrel Boy’, I see....
I love that song.”
It haunts me, especially with bagpipes.
How was the officer to know that an electric fence was restraining the dog? I couldn’t tell such a thing was present when our neighbor’s dog was wandering around it’s front yard (very unusual).
I was thinking maybe it was a spanish dog, and he should have given him bi-lingual instructions.
I love cops, but I think they should be a little more willing to sacrifice themselves in order to ensure they don’t do more harm than good.
We pay them to do so — it’s a hard job, but it’s not really a hard job if they are allowed to shoot anything that moves, and can sit outside on a hostage situation until people are killed and they know it’s safe to go in.
Because used in conjunction with an electric fence is a special collar that fits around the dog’s neck and informs the dog when the boundary is (a) being approached and (b) crossed.
Since the dog was shot IN the yard, the dog had not yet left its yard. Unjustified shooting of an animal on its owner’s property.
Apparently so, and there’ll be people here on FR to defend this soon (bunch of bootlickers).
Yeah, I carry a baseball bat to deal with those vicious GOLDEN RETRIEVERS.
Anyone who can’t deal with an every day situation such as meeting a strange dog without killing the dog shouldn’t be allowed to be a cop. Retrievers are big babies.
Don’t you know how meeeeeaaaaan you are for faulting a cop who didn’t knoooooooow the dog was contained by an electric fence?
;-)
I find it amazing that mailmen, meter readers, repairmen and people in other professions whose daily tasks cause them to be in regular contact with dogs manage to do their jobs without shooting dogs.
The answer can only be that the terminator cops are shooting family dogs not because they HAVE to, but because they WANT to.
I do know that a special collar has to be present. However, I wouldn’t know what one looks like and certainly wasn’t looking for one anyway; I suspect the officer wasn’t either. I wouldn’t use an electric fence because it doesn’t protect the dog. If the dog had been behind a visible fence, it probably would still be alive. I’d be very angry with the officer, but I’d be going through the “what if” bit about my choice of restraint, too. I have met Goldens that bite, and any dog who feels threatened on his own territory can’t be trusted.
The exact appearance varies, however, there is typically a box or apparatus at the front of the collar. Do an image search for “electric fence collar” in your favorite search engine in order to educate yourself.
Not all visible fences are constructed the same way. Had their been a visible fence, the cop may have claimed that he thought the dog would jump the fence.
The problem does not lie with the dog, which was contained in its yard.
The problem lies with the cop who shot a dog which had not left its owner’s property.
The problem lies with that cop’s fellow cops who have declared this shooting acceptable.
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