Posted on 07/07/2011 11:28:16 AM PDT by Immerito
UPDATE 7:47 p.m. Sept. 13: The Washington Post has obtained the police report on the incident. It describes the dog as appearing "to be out of control" and says the dog "charged" at the officer before it was fatally shot.
10:16 p.m. Updated with a statement from Third District police that conflicts with the dog handler's spokesman's statement, and an e-mailed statement from the handler himself.
There's never a shortage of police officers at Adams Morgan Day, just in case someone gets out of hand. Today, that someone was a dog.
An officer with the D.C. police department shot and killed a dog — possibly a rottweiler or pit bull — outside The Brass Knob antique store at 2311 18th St. NW. The shooting followed an intense, two-minute scuffle between the dog and what witnesses describe as a "smaller" white dog.
In dispute of the what the dog's handler has said, police tonight released a statement saying the dog was out of control and also bit the handler. Here's the entire e-mail from Third District Capt. Aubrey P. Mongal:
Earlier this afternoon, during the Adams Morgan Day events, an MPD officer encountered a dog in the crowded pedestrian area that got out of the control of it’s handler. The dog attacked another dog and also bit it handler. The officer, after making several attempts to subdue the dog by training tactics, had to finally shoot one time to stop the dog.
On the contrary, says the handler, who only wants to be identified as Aaron. In an e-mail to TBD, Aaron said the apparent foster dog, Parrot, didn't bite anyone.
In my recollection and as the eyewitness accounts will coroborate, the dog was completely under my control when the k9 officer removed me. Parrot bit no human, the only blood he drew was when i thrust my hand into his mouth to get him off the other dog. The k9 officer's injury, which he showed me at the station after, was nothing more than a rope burn from Parrot's leash, suffered when the officer was throwing my dog down a flight of stairs.
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier, in an earlier response to an e-mail from advisory neighborhood commissioner and candidate for the Ward 1 D.C. Council seat Bryan Weaver, said three people, including a K9 officer, were bitten by the dog. Here's an excerpt of the e-mail:
I don't know all of the facts at this point so it is very difficult for me to comment beyond the facts that I have been given. All I know is that there is one dog who was attacked by the pit bull and 3 people, including a K9 officer, that were bitten by the pit bull.
Police sources had earlier told ABC 7 the officer who shot the dog was a canine handler who was experienced with dogs. He was trying to separate the dogs, and attempted to choke hold the larger dog. While he was trying that, the dog attempted to bite him or did bite him, and he threw him down the stairwell in an attempt to injure the dog. The dog charged the officer and the officer opened fire, the sources said.
An unidentified spokesperson for the dog's handler said the cop didn't try hard enough to subdue the dog.
In an e-mail to TBD, Weaver said the dog had seemed friendly at his booth at the festival just 15 minutes before the incident:
"Aaron is a good guy, he said he had the dog under control and the cop grabbed it from him and threw him down the well at [Marie] Reed and shot him. Dog was playing with kids at my booth 15 min earlier. Aaron is really shaken."
One witness, 46-year-old Harriet Winslow, said that at first, she saw the two dogs — the white-sandy pitbull-looking dog and a cute white fluffy lap dog — barking and fighting.
"Everybody glanced over and the owners of these dogs were frantically trying to pull them apart. We're all looking concerned. Suddenly, the owner of the pitbull was down on the ground trying to subdue his dog. He was really trying hard — I have to give him credit. He was on the ground wrapping his arms around the dog. I could see him down on the ground. I mean he was really trying."
After the two dogs were pulled apart, Winslow says she could see that the smaller dog was fine. But the dogs were still barking at each other.
Then a cop appeared.
"I glanced over again and I saw a very able bodied police officer fully a stride the dog — the cop straddling dog. The pitbull was still animated, still trying to get up. But this cop — I thought 'Wow this guy is good at this, he subdued a really angry dog.' Then I thought 'Good, this is now over.' Then I walk just five or 10 feet away and I hear a gun shot."
Before she heard the shot, she said she thought "the cop was totally in control. ... It's not something I would want to do. He really was on top of this dog."
Noah Siegel, who works at nearby Spaghetti Garden restaurant, says he saw "two or three cops" surrounding the dog. One of the officers, says Siegel, had the dog on a leash and attempted to drag it away from the commotion.
The dog began "trying to attack the cop," says Siegel. "Next thing I knew, they had it down there in the corner and I heard a shot and that was it," says Siegel, who was interviewed by ABC 7's Brianne Carter.
An onlooker who attempted to intervene in the dogfight sustained a scrape or two. "He's fine," reports ABC 7's Carter.
Exactly. When I wall my dogs I always carry. I can assure you if some Pit Bull charges I will shoot first and ask questions later. I hate those dogs. Ticking time bombs.
Some guys just can’t get by without their four-legged penis extensions.
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LOL!!!
And how does a youtube video of a dog playing with a tire provide biological evidence of any breed of dog having the ability to lock its jaws?
This is my definition of locked jaws, what is yours?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtmvz1v5SPo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4U6chw9e5c
A Charlotte girl is expected to recover after she was bitten on the face and neck by a neighbor’s pit bull in her home on Thursday. Nine-year-old Jisseth Moquete was sitting in her family’s living room when their next-door neighbor and his pit bull entered the house. Her brother Henry Moquete, 12, said the dog had been running around the neighborhood and playing with his family’s German shepherd. When the owner caught up with the dog in their yard, he stepped inside to talk, Henry said. She was petting him, Henry said. He starts growling. Then I heard my sister screaming. Henry saw the dog’s jaws fastened around his sister’s face. The dog’s owner grabbed the brown pit bull and threw him off Jisseth, but she was already covered in blood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAXwjCxcQbo
A 4-year-old girl and her 9-year-old brother were playing outside their home when she was knocked down and bitten on the neck, arms, legs, stomach and face, her mother told the hospital.
The child was in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of Tulane Hospital for Children.
“The patient was in a life-threatening situation, and she is extremely lucky to be alive, but she is recovering very well,” said the girl’s physician, Dr. Matei Petrescu.
After neighbors fought the pit bulls off the children, the animals attacked a 56-year-old man a couple of blocks away. Raymond Hall was also knocked to the ground and bitten on both arms and legs. The attack stopped only after a bystander shot one of the pit bulls, the SPCA reported.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIQqoZeLkRQ
Oh, and let us not forget the sweet Pit that killed and ate the baby recently, even after it has just had a big dinner. I guess it wanted dessert.
I could take up 20 pages on a thread here on FR with incidents and statistics. The facts speak for themselves. Thank goodness some places have had the sense to ban these beasts.
Perhaps the adjective “biological” is tripping you up.
All of the breeds commonly labeled as “pitbulls” are all members of the species canis familiaris. It should therefore be easy to produce evidence that any of the breeds referred to as “pitbulls” have an inherent biological ability to lock their jaws.
No doubt, you will have biological evidence forthcoming in your next post.
Yawn..... I’ve had many different breeds of dogs( granted, none anywhere near as ugly as pit bulls, but some smaller, some larger, NONE had jaws that could lock on and hold onto that tire for 10 minutes without letting go. Don’t play stupid, you know that pits and some breeds have more jaw crushing power than others and they are inclined to use it. Statistics don’t lie and no, I am not going to spend my Sunday posting all of the stats. You have fingers, search for them. But I suspect you already know. What is your skin in this game? Pit owner most likely.
Funny how pits are the most common dog in pounds across the US. Wonder why.
Sorry, that is not biological evidence of any dog’s ability to “lock” its jaws.
No breed of dog has that ability; it’s a myth based in embarrassing biological ignorance. There is no anatomical structure anywhere on the dog’s skull that allows it to “lock” its jaws.
Attempting to move the goalposts, as you are now doing, to discuss relative biting strength between dog breeds, only highlights that you realize that you have been promoting a myth that you cannot substantiate.
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