Posted on 10/20/2012 10:49:07 PM PDT by Altariel
There was nothing James Woods could do.
He screamed; he pleaded. ”Please don’t harm my dogs,” he begged police, who moments earlier had barged into his east-side home looking for marijuana.
Woods was forced into a corner last week when the first shot rang out – a 12-gauge shotgun. Woods’ young pit bull, Tank, who neighbors and witnesses say was confined to a locked fence outside and unable to harm anyone, lay dead in a puddle of blood, shot in the face.
Fearing police would hurt his two other dogs, who were inside the house, Woods cried out: “Please! They won’t hurt you! Stop chasing them! They’re just scared. ”
Witnesses told a consistent story: Police chased the dogs, Hump and Janey, around the house, shooting Woods’ longtime companions as they fled.
“They came in like they were shooting deer,” Woods said.
Janey, a small, older pit bull, dragged a trail of blood around the house until she finally collapsed.
“They shot her four times as she was trying to get away,” Woods said, his pale blue eyes welling up. “She didn’t have a chance. It just isn’t right.”
Neighbors said the three dogs, which included a German shepherd mix, were tame and friendly.
“They were good dogs,” a neighbor said.
Police didn’t respond to calls or emails for comment.
Woods, a financially struggling jack-of-all-trades, spent the next two days in jail, grieving his companions.
His friend, Scott Kraz, photographed the carcasses in hopes of proving that police shot the dogs from behind.
“From the position of the two dogs inside the building, they were running away from the door, away from the police,” Kraz said.
After collecting the evidence, Kraz buried the three dogs in the front yard of the home, where Woods now lives alone, with a heavy heart.
On Tuesday afternoon, Woods finished up a long day of trimming trees and sparked a cigarette.
“They killed my dogs,” he said, shaking his head. “The Detroit Police Department murdered my dogs.”
And yet some people have the gall to say donut munchers can’t shoot?
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What?
By that logic my poodle, Staffordshire, and Tabby are fair game because I enjoy their company and/or might be cultivating radishes...or just "because".
"without regard for THEIR safety."
Although the cat can open drawers and the occasional door, none of them are able to charge an AR15 or jack the slide on a 1911 so their safety is apparently up to me. Shouting “Please! They won’t hurt you! Stop chasing them! They’re just scared.” just might be the best I could come up with on the spot!
Since the article does not discuss actual pot plants, radishes, or aggression by (penned up) dogs, I'm going with the "cops like to kill things" argument.
I feel sorry for everybody involved—including the dogs, and the owner.
Since we, as a nation, fought "The War on Drugs" the same way we fight "The War on Terror" we can expect more of the same sorrows.
When Columbian drug-trafficking aircraft flew into Florida and Lousiana, the Government aircraft "followed them" until they lost them. Why didn't they just shoot them down?
A successful Florida VW mechanic/businessman (an acquaintance from Georgia) switched to such smuggling by private aircraft. His Columbian competitors sabotaged his aircraft in Columbia—killing him and his 12-year-old son. :(
No lesson learned there—America's drug users have much blood on their hands.
I think the answer is there is certain demographic that is deathly afraid of any dogs and lose their minds when any are loose.
I have seen it personally on the many calls for unconfined animal calls I have been on. You would think there was Bengal Tiger stalking the streets.
As far as the story goes, three more casualties in the beyond stupid War on Drugs.
Cops have an overwhelming need to feel totally, I mean totally in control of the situation. Their chief tool is fear and intimidation.
Shooting your dog right in front of you is great way to intimidate and not cause riots cause you shot a person. This has become SOP I’m afraid. Next is black clad commando cops rappelling from helicopters onto your roof, flash burning a hole in and and jumping in and putting a blood stained canvas bag over your head.
Yup, and they call the cops because animal control won't shoot them. They'll even make up a story to tell the cops.
Pit bulls and a pot farm.
No sympathy.
“America’s drug users have much blood on their hands”
I see we share the same sentiment. I would love to see one of those guilt ads citing statistics of the killings by the drug cartels with a bloody finger pointing at a person depicting a pot smoker smoking his bong or a pretty blond snorting her cocaine who sports a PETA slogan on her tee shirt! As far as I’m concerned..these folks are murderers too!
No mention of MJ being found in the story ,, and even if it was this is unjustifiable. Maybe he just PO’d a neighbor..
There are a lot more police and they have much better "toys" than most of us.
Hump , the “german shepherd mix” , is pictured at the source article , old , frail , gray muzzle ... sweet looking ... this was intimidation pure and simple ,, killing the old dog and the one that was caged!! The one young dog that was loose might be justifiable if you can stretch far enough to say the cops needed to be in the house.. but that’s a BIG stretch..
Smells to me that the cops weren’t getting their protection cut if this guy was a dealer.
Pot Farm.....Where did you see that
Stupidity and ignorance,
No sympathy
while searching, I found this from the website Catholic Answers:
Oh no! CAF is being taken over by the FreeRepublic dog people.
BTW, did a check of MI public records and found no current info on a "James Woods" arrest... (your mileage may vary!)
POLICE STATE isn't coming, it's here!
Where is tht apparent? At this point, it's admitted that there is no evidence of his guilt presented. It's like a Pavlovian reaction to the word 'pot' appearing in the title.
Seems like a lot of cops these days are cowards who go to the badge and gun to get their man on. The same cops who unnecessarily shoot dogs for sport would gladly shoot people, if they could get away with it. It’s all a matter of power and empowerment, who has it, and how they can exercise it. Dogs are easy targets, and cops know they can get away with shooting them.
Finally, 30 posts in. And if this “jack of all trades” had
needed to take off for some reason, he would have left the dogs abandoned. The shelters are full of pit bull/mixes from
the same story. Few people want them and they end up euthanized anyway.
I still have a problem with the frequency of cop shoots
dog, though.
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