MONROE, N.C.—No charges after an officer shot and killed a dog right in front of high school students in Monroe. Cops say the German Shepherd was chasing a student at the Central Academy of Technology and Arts so they shot the animal. Police say no charges will be filed against the dogs owners.
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Really? This gives the impression that the police want this investigation to be closed, as though they are aware that they will not be in the right even if they do charge the owners for, say, violating local/state leash laws.
Of course, if the DO charge the dog’s owners, they’ll escalate this thing in the media. They don’t want that, either.
Lesson: Get control of your animals.
If my dog were shot, I’m sure I’d be pissed off, too.
That’s why I get my head right BEFORE that can happen and make sure my dog is under my control.
I take an entirely different view when a dog is shot on the owner’s property, however.
I agree.
If the dog owners did nothing wrong, why was their dog shot?
So anther cop gets to learn the secret handshake?
Looks like another weenie PC department. The female chief says that the police don’t like to shoot anyone but....
As usual it most likely involves an officer who cannot handle him /herself physically and therefore resorts to shooting as the first response to any percieved threat.
And, if this is true:
“thank you the voice and all we are asking for is the truth and we cant get that..noone knows what the children here are going through but yet they want to get on here and down grade the RETIRED POLICE DOG these children loved.”
Then this cop shot a retired police officer, in the eyes of the law.