Are you kidding? Look at those fangs . . . okay, maybe not, but what about that tongue? A lab might slobber on the uniform - licking the cop for doughnut crumbs.
Posted on 08/19/2011 5:59:26 PM PDT by Immerito
The dog's owner said he has no idea why police officers thought it was necessary to gun down his Labrador mix.
Terry Boyle, of Birmingham, said four police officers shot and killed his 5-year-old dog, Buddy, Saturday night. Boyle said he rushed home to hear the horrifying news from neighbors who said they witnessed police officers shoot his dog four times.
"From what I have been told he was not aggressive at all and he tried to get away from officers when all four approached him at the same time," said Boyle.
According to police reports, officers have responded to the home on Bowers Street four times in the past two years -- including once because Buddy had gotten into a fight with a neighbor's dog, and another time because Buddy was on the loose.
This time, police said the dog was off his owner's property and on the attack when shots were fired.
However, neighbors said Buddy was a nice dog that did not cause trouble. Witnesses said that on Saturday night Buddy was on the front porch when officers arrived. When officers approached him, he ran to the side of the house, where he was shot twice, witnesses said.
"A witness saw my dog moving," Boyle said. "He lifted his head and was trying to move still. (Police) put the noose around him and dragged him a couple of feet and then shot him twice more."
Neighbors said they were shocked that Buddy was the target of officers.
"He wasn't a neighborhood pest or a dog that was out all the time, by any means," said Boyle's neighbor Barbara McIntosh. "He was always in the house or in the yard."
Boyle said he wants answers.
"It's unbelievable to me," Boyle said. "My dog has never harmed anyone his entire life."
Police said officers were responding to a complaint that Buddy, in particular, was out on the loose. Police also said Buddy was a Rottweiler mix. Boyle said Buddy was a rescued dog, and if anything he was a Labrador-shepherd mix, not Rottweiler.
“What the cops are doing today to pets will happen tomorrow to the citizenry. Just watch.”
It sure seems to be headed that way.
Looks like the dog could come and go as he pleased ~ with or without the owner present.
It's always a good idea to keep your dog in the house or securely restrained inside a fenced area ~ and given how high a dog can leap ~ that ought to be 12 to 16 ft tall.
That way busy bodies won't be calling the cops to come out and shoot your dog.
Not at all.
As America loses its conscience it will certainly continue on that path.
Yep just practicing on the dogs first.
Why is it all killers start by killing harmless animals.
Leaping ability depends on the breed of dog, age, strength and agility.
The neighbors say the dog was on the porch.
The police say there was a complaint that the dog was loose.
Loose dog complaints don’t require four officers. And of the alleged four violations, only two are given in the article.
“Neighbors said they were shocked that Buddy was the target of officers.
“He wasn’t a neighborhood pest or a dog that was out all the time, by any means,” said Boyle’s neighbor Barbara McIntosh. “He was always in the house or in the yard.” “
The neighbors, not being employees of the government who have a strong desire to cover their own arses when caught in wrongdoing, aren’t corroborating with the officer’s account.
When in doubt, believe the private citizens who witnessed the crime above the government employees who committed it.
This is how Pol Pot trained his goons. Started them out on animals.
Yep. Those cops need to be replaced by four unemployed conservatives.
Pronto.
Are you kidding? Look at those fangs . . . okay, maybe not, but what about that tongue? A lab might slobber on the uniform - licking the cop for doughnut crumbs.
I don’t trust it.
That dog’s clearly a tennis-ball killer.
:-)
We don't know if the dog had been there all along ~ there are earlier reports he wandered around on other occasions.
This dog was a marked item ~ FOUR COMPLAINTS.
My neighbor a few doors down had a little black dog that'd gone blind and he'd be out on the porch and he'd bark at everybody and everything. We got in the practice of stopping and talking to him in the morning.
Eventually he'd jump up and start barking whenever we got in the car or just opened our front door. We were a big part of the little blind dogs life.
Then one day he died. The owners sold the house and a new family moved in.
They too had a little black dog. He got kind of old and funny over the years, but he didn't go blind.
He'd sit there on the porch and wait for us to stop in front of our house and talk to him, and he'd bark and jump up and down, but he'd never leave the porch.
Over the years he learned to listen for our door to open and he'd start barking.
One day the dog died. The family sold the house. And we went through that for the third time with yet another little black dog.
Those dogs NEVER left the porch nor were they tied up. They barked and jumped IN PLACE. They were friendly.
For some reason the police never once came out and shot any of those dogs and yet with the 9/11 situation and the semi-resident FBI, DEA, DOD, VA and Fairfax police presence 24/7 in this area looking for signs of yet more AlQaida ground support team activity none of those officers seemed to ever care about those dogs (2 of them overlapped those days).
Let me suggest that if NO ONE reports a dog it doesn't get a record. That dog had been reported 3 times before by somebody.
The dog was on its property when the police arrived, the same police who lied about the dog being aggressive when neighbor eyewitnesses saw the dog on its property and retreating from officers.
Only two complaints against the dog are given in the article, according to the police officers who lied about the dog being off its property and who lied about it being aggressive.
The only evidence of a third complaint is a statement by the same cops who have lied, according to the testimony of non-cop private citizen eyewitnesses.
Do you have any evidence, from non-government-employee witnesses, that the dog was off its property?
May be different where you live ~ frankly, I'm more used to an environment where real dog lovers ~ those who have teams of hunting hounds ~ keep them safe on the back porch in reasonably large, but strong, cages.
They have a nice fence out there too so when they let the hounds loose they don't just run away ~ like so many hounds love to do.
It's quite likely some neighbor who was NOT interviewed didn't care for a large dog to be left on the porch in an unfenced area while the owner was off doing errands or whatever. I don't think he much cared for his dog.
No animal control officers there?
The dog was on its property. Unless you can demonstrate that Michigan state laws or local laws require further tethering or restraint, the dog, since it was on the front porch, was where it was supposed to be.
The cops, in intruding on a private citizen’s property and destroying said property were violating the rights of the property owner.
Speculation is not evidence—and the available non-government-employee testimony states the dog was where it belonged.
Answer:
http://www.ci.birmingham.mi.us/index.aspx?page=716
City Government » Police » Animal Control
Animal Control
To report a stray animal, contact the Birmingham Police Department Communications Center at 248.530.1889.
Stray animals will be housed for five calendar days at Gasow Veterinary Hospital, 36877 Woodward Avenue, Birmingham, 48009, telephone # 248.644.7171.
The procedure for release of impounded animals is as follows:
* Owner must report to Birmingham Police Department (151 Martin Street) and show proof of the animal’s valid license. A $25.00 impound fee will be assessed for the first offence and $50.00 for the second offence in the same year. A receipt will be provided to the animal owner.
* The receipt will be taken to Gasow Veterinary Hospital during the following business hours:
Monday – Friday 9 am – 9 pm
Saturday 9 am – 4 pm
Sunday 10 am – 2 pm
All boarding fees and necessary medical charges will be paid to Gasow by the animal owner at time of release.
The odds are good an ordinance required tethering AND a fence. I think they have "home rule" in Michigan so the city might have even more restrictions than we can possibly imagine.
I life in an "urban county" (not a city) and we have ordinances that require you to tether your dog.
ROTFLMAO!! I could 'report' you three times in the next five minutes! Did any of these complaints ever result in any citations? Arrests? Impound of the dog?
Very well, then please provide the applicable state, county or city leash law ordinances which you allege the homeowner to have violated.
Because They Can.
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