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Posted on 07/25/2011 5:09:10 PM PDT by Immerito
Brittany Moore and Ava (credit: CBS) Filed under Local, News Related tags Brittany Moore, Erie, Jamie Chester
ERIE, Colo. (CBS4)- The district attorney has cleared an Erie police officer who shot and killed a family’s pet earlier this month.
District Attorney Stan Garnett said the dog lunged at the officer.
Its owner, Brittany Moore, says the German shepherd named Ava didn’t do anything that warranted being shot.
(Excerpt) Read more at denver.cbslocal.com ...
Got any more excuses, O P?
I've never done that ....................................... FRegards
Got any more excuses, O P?
I've never done that ....................................... FRegards
Got any more excuses, O P?
I've never done that ....................................... FRegards
Got any more excuses, O P?
I've never done that ....................................... FRegards
That should do it ...
Enroll in cop school at your local community college just fer $hits-n-giggles. You won’t sleep well ever again.
Cop shots the dog. shoot the cop. That’ll stop it.
If every time they walk near your house you instantly appear with a baseball bat and a bulge in your belt, they tend to move along elsewhere.
Where can I find quality neighbors like you?
Let's not discuss how when we are called we are supposed to instantly have a solution when we arrive, any other time we're dicks and assholes but if that person who called us was wronged....."I want you to go violate their civil rights right NOW!!"
You have chosen a weird profession. As would someone who works for the IRS, everyone hates you because of guilt by association whether you have earned the scorn or not, yet when that terrible time comes to have to deal with you or the IRS agent, we expect you to be a saint of God.
There is no winning.
Oh, so in other words, he may or may not have had a warrant, the warrant may or may not have been issued for the correct person at the correct address. There may or may not have been a crime of the most minor infraction to no actual infraction at all.
agreed.
In case you missed it, there are so many laws on the books now that Americans are unable to do anything without breaking the damn law that requires a cop to come to your private home and stick his or her nose in Americans personnel business.
Law enforcement Unions are the main driving force behind the “911” service and anti-gun legislation, etc.
Law enforcement lie to the American people with statements like “You can't take the law into your own hands.”
In my rural community we take care of our own problems, the only time you see a cop car is if there has been an accident.
Good ridden to bad rubbish. If a cop shot a person's dog in my community, the cop would never survive getting out of the area. In one(1) incident several years ago, two (2) deputy Sheriff's (k-9) patrol thought it would be funny to harass a young 17 year old who suffers from a nerve disease and shakes when he stands still. they pulled this young man over, and demanded that he take a sobriety test on the side of the road. When the young man refused they sicked the dog on him and was bitten severely. Two (2) weeks later, they found those two (2) officers laying in a ditch with both their legs broke with a not that reminded them to leave our community!
Old fashion justice!
Are you just stupid or did you fall down? We are not waiting for anyone to do anything if our home is attacked. Thats why we have weapons and are proficient with firearms. We are probably better than the cops.
Do you know what we call people breaking down our front door? Target practice.
I’m curious, do police departments offer any training on how to recognize when dogs are aggressive or when the are friendly? It seems that I keep seeing these stories and am curious if there has been any attempt to change the trend...
“MOST ANIMALS DETEST AND ARE SCARED OF SOLID UNIFORMS. I don’t know why,...”
That is somewhat surprising to me. It is completely logical that dogs get aggressive with anyone in uniform. For the most part, they are rewarded every day by being aggressive torwards uniforms. Think about it, every day they aggressively drive away a potential invader, the mail man, with their aggressive behaviour. Even tho’ the mail man doesn’t realize it, their regular attempt to invade the home is thwarted in the dog’s brain every day.
As a result, the dog is only doing what they are able to achieve daily with any other uniform.
I recall reading that a police department was giving its officers training on understanding the common behaviors of animals that its officers were most likely to face, but I am not certain if officers receive any such training at the academy or elsewhere under normal circumstances.
That said, understanding dog behavior isn’t rocket science. One would hope that the average officer has enough common sense to know when an animal is being friendly or aggressive.
I don’t think the problem is, by and large, ignorance of behavior on the part of the officers.
This problem is so widespread that it appears to be prompted by a directive-—if you see a dog, you may shoot it and claim later that it was aggressive, whether it was or not.
No, the problem does not appear to be ignorance, but malevolence on the part of some officers who enjoy intimidating (or attempting to intimidate) citizens who have committed no crime.
Sooner or later, they will point their weapon at the wrong citizen’s dog. Then it likely won’t go well for the officer(s) involved.
I pray that you are wrong but fear you are right....
Thank you for your service.
I am probably going to get example after example of why I am wrong, but my opinion differs with some here.
I have the most respect and admiration for police officers, and in my 68 years of life on this earth, have never had an unpleasant experience with them. Granted, I have never lived in a high crime area, where the officers might have reason to be defensive and guarded in their dealings with the general public.
And, on the subject of dogs. too many people today have dogs, but do not have their dogs trained and under control at all times. And by that I mean a dog who will instantly come to the owner’s side and assume a sit or better yet, a down, upon command.
If the owner of this dog has issued such a command, and the dog promptly responded, I am positive the outcome would have been completely different.
So, please people, get off this nonsense about police shooting people’s pets. Having a pet is a responsibility, and proper training, control, and leadership come along with that.
There are too many out-of-control dogs out there, and our police can’t tell by anything other than how a dog responds to his owner’s commands.
There is no evidence in this story that the dog in question posed a threat to the officer.
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Moore believes Chester panicked, giving no warning before he fired, killing Ava.
“He saw the dogs and turned around, put his hand on his gun and started backing up and that’s when I said, ‘Ava nein,’ and she turned and he got down and shot her.” Moore said.
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This isn’t a case of a bad dog; it’s a case of a bad cop. The dog *was* responding to the owner; it had turned around to face the owner to discern further direction; it responded to the command “Nien” (No.)
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