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It’s not the officer’s fault. Shooting dogs is in their blood.
There is absolutely NOTHING these people can do about it either. That is the worst part.
Just idiocy on steroids ... Literally.
Pets today, people tomorrow.
It is now policy, likely unofficially, in many police departments to “gratuitously” kill dogs. The rationales for this are twisted, but make sense to the police.
1) To establish police dominance over people. Police regard this as an *essential* part of what police do. They want to be totally in charge and in control of all situations at all times. A dog hinders this dominance. Officers regularly kill even small dogs like Chihuahuas and Dachshunds, that present zero threat to anyone.
Importantly, anything that interferes with this control, be it a locked door or anything else, will get a similar harsh treatment. Do not knock on the door, kick it in or batter it down. A lot of it can be traced to steroid abuse.
If a person is not traumatized, they are not submissive enough, which is the intent of face down, handcuffed, gun to head and knee in back control measures; as well as taking small children away on any pretense.
2) The courts have established that things smashed or animals killed by police have a minimal value, so the most even a champion, papered AKC dog and service animal is worth is from $300 to $500, even if it cost thousands, and its training cost thousands more. Likewise, the replacement value of a windowed, solid oak door is just that of a cheap, hollow plywood door.
Importantly, the way around this problem is not what most people do, which is to complain or curse at and sue the police. Instead, the most effective way of fighting back is to publicly humiliate individual officers who have done such things.
The way to do this is to describe what they did as being an act of sexual gratification, suggesting that they found killing a dog to be sexually stimulating, and afterwards they showed a degree of “unprofessional intimacy and visible arousal” amongst themselves, touching each other briefly, yet inappropriately while “asserting dominance” in a sexual way over the people held at gunpoint.
This would make such police lose their marbles, and should only be done by those who don’t fear vigorous retaliation by the police.
The dog is mere property with the potential to interfere with the officer's wellbeing as some future time. And a three-year old what? An incorporated civilian? That's just a dispensable human resource of the State. Your objections are irrelevent.
Next case.
Somebody is going to get killed some day over one of these incidents.
What is the officer’s name?
More fine Drug War police work.
Shoot a K-9 “police officer” who is charging your 3-year old child and find out what happens.
If you go to the first comment in the Sun Herald story, you see this comment:
once again a lie per gulfport police department the dog was not even chained on my property he was on my moms property next door no where near my front door the chain is still where it was when he was shot and the blood stains are still where they are at sorry to bust ur bubble but he was nowhere by the house!!!!!!!!! u are welcome to come by and check it out 1816 20th street....please dont judge me ,my family or my dog marky ....yOU have no heart at all a dog is what u make him....if u train him to fight thats what he will do if you train him with love thats what he will do...nice try marky u probably run around killing ur neighbors animals...
If she is who she leads us to believe and is being truthful, the dog was chained next door, not even near her front door. So why kill the dog? Especially around little children?
Ever since the Waco massacre, it seems to be standard operating procedure for police to kill the dogs first no matter what the circumstances.
Also note from the story that the person police were seeking hasn’t lived at the home for three years. The search turned up no drugs or guns, and police left without making an arrest.
I am so sick of reading these stories. Why doesn’t it stop? What can be done to MAKE it stop?
I will never call the police. I’d rather risk dealing with a burglar myself that probably won’t shoot my dog than a LEO that probably will. It is a disgrace.