Give me a break. You and your pals (at least on this thread) calling anyone “statist” who dares say it isn’t automatically NAZI when Cop X shoots Dog Y.
This case is different from the standard CSD (even if those are questionable until all facts are known), and you know it.
As to your insistence that this is the same as the given mailman, et al.
1st off, mail carriers, et al, aren’t RUNNING from the premises. Running triggers the prey instinct and stirs suspicion in the territorial dog’s mind. This cop was running near/on the property when the dog was chasing the crook. How many visitors, mailmen, meter readers, etc are running either to, by, or from the property? The dog was already geared up by the scum in his yard, then apparently distracted by another running stranger as well.
2nd, people (including those who cry about all the scum in the world getting shot) seem to think it’s easy MID-CHASE to carry several different kinds of weapons and pick out each 1 without screwing that up. What makes you think while you’re running you can easily think about and grab the right “mace”? Would be nice, but that’s unreasonable to expect.
3rd, what happens if he doesn’t shoot? At best, gets slowed down, or knocked over, stopped from chasing? Maybe not the biggest problem in the world, but that leads to the next issue.
As to “important” - yes, damn right I say getting scum like this who beat up a man and stole his car is important. Miss it now, that little scum will never get his. That is a huge problem in this country - low-life “urban” scum getting violent and taking things that they didn’t earn.
It’s unfortunate and terribly tragic, but it’s not shocking the dog got hurt. Hell, he could’ve gotten run over by a car - what then? Angry at the driver?
Put the blame for this ACCIDENT where it belongs - on the scum-sucking car-jackers. They are the 1s who opened the gate.
Otherwise is just as I said elsewhere - blaming the US Gov for 9/11 rather than the foreign Moslem scum who executed it.
And the behavior on these threads is just like the uprisings over Trayvon Martin. Assuming all is wrong with 1 side, and all right with the other.
(In this case, there is no fault as I see with the owner/guardian, but it’s the principle.)
You're joking right?
Why do cops carry multiple weapons, such as a baton, night stick, pepper spray etc, if they can't figure out the appropriate one to use? How complex is this?
Oh, will you just put a sock in it?
Trayvon was a veteran Fight Clubber who was trying to beat a "nosy Spic"'s head in.
WHOOPSIE!
As for the Statist label, I fault the rank and file police for going along the Police State agenda to get along, and to score the excellent pay, early retirement and great pensions that come with "just following the orders" of the Statist decision-makers.
They're mercenaries, unresponsive to the needs of the peasant rabble they supposedly "protect and serve".
I'm sure the woman whose dog was offed felt all warm & fuzzy after getting "protected and served" by a 40cal in a residential neighborhood.
As we saw above, if Hund the Police Kettenhund made a threatening move towards innocent CC holder Joe Peasant, and Joe dealt with the threat, The Law would be on Joe so fast it would make his head swim. Multiple felonies, easily.
So take your brass band elsewhere.