Posted on 11/14/2012 8:05:10 PM PST by Altariel
A dog shot and killed by a cop could have been a threat to bite officers. That's the opinion of the Omaha police union president. Our Sister Station WOWT, Channel Six News, first showed the exclusive video of the incident last month.
A man walking the family pet in a search area ignored orders to stop so police arrested him and an officer shot and killed the dog. Omaha Police Union President Sgt. John Wells told Fact Finders, Based on the video I dont see that the officers acted inappropriately.
But the dog owners sister takes a different view, I think the officer was wrong shooting Teela. She wouldnt hurt anybody.
Union President Wells said in his opinion the night vision video from a neighbors security camera doesnt tell the whole story. Wells said, Just seeing the officers immediate reaction its seems to me he back peddled for a second thinking the dog is coming at him and made a split second decision by deciding I have no choice but to put this aggressive dog down.
The lab retriever mix named Teela had a clean record with the humane society. Chris Schulte, the man walking to family pet claims the officer didnt have to shoot the dog. Schulte said, Not threatening, the dog wasnt being aggressive.
But the report filed by officers Schuster and Clements stated the dog was aggressive, growled and showed its teeth. The union president points out that officers reported Schulte was arrested for having an open container of alcohol and obstructing police. Officers had the area sealed off to search for a suspect in a shooting. A police canine was being used in the area so the man entering with a pet could be in danger himself. The union president said responsibility for the shooting of the dog rests with the 22 year old man walking the dog, not with officers. Wells said, its unfortunate someones family pet was killed but officers were left little choice but to protect themselves.
Omaha Police commanders cant comment on an internal investigation. Police had told Fact Finders when an officer discharges their weapon while on duty an arduous review takes place.
Hijacked or sold out.
I think we have been sold out to the UN one-world government group. GW Bush was every bit the New World Order globalaist that George Soros is. He may not be evil like Soros, but all of them have sold us out. Daddy Bush was completely in bed with the UN.
The last president we had who didnt sell us out was Reagan.
— I fully agree, I just don’t know what we do next.
Food for thought, just my two cents:
For the first time since the Civil War, the word “secession” is being publically and seriously discussed complete with mass signatures.
And this time, it’s not just the South.
The article says it was a dog he shot, not a cat.....Oh wait I see what you mean.... never mind!
Have you discussed taking him to a canine assertiveness training class? I think he is suffering from that unfortunate canid malady of being unwilling to express his true opinions in front of his pack leader.
What say you?
You seem to be recollecting the 174,000 rounds of hollow point bullets the SSA ordered. *That* was all over the news.
1.8 billion rounds for USPS?
Still unverified, but you are welcome to verify the matter.
“Sgt. John Wells told Fact Finders, Based on the video I dont see that the officers acted inappropriately.
We need a number of things to protect us against these maniacs.
1) Civilian review boards with the power to review cases and fine, suspend or fire cops.
2) Residency Laws - if you don’t LIVE in a community, you can’t POLICE that community.
3) Replacement of all “police chiefs” with civilian Law and Public Safety Directors who are not and never have been cops and answer to the Civilian authorities not his fellow officers.
4) Dissolution of the FOP and PBA. No government employees have any right to unionize.
We have allowed thugs in blue and those who cover for them to establish an elite class of protected, overcompensated, rogue villains who answer to no one but their paramilitary peers.
“Sgt. John Wells told Fact Finders, Based on the video I dont see that the officers acted inappropriately.
We need a number of things to protect us against these maniacs.
1) Civilian review boards with the power to review cases and fine, suspend or fire cops.
2) Residency Laws - if you don’t LIVE in a community, you can’t POLICE that community.
3) Replacement of all “police chiefs” with civilian Law and Public Safety Directors who are not and never have been cops and answer to the Civilian authorities not his fellow officers.
4) Dissolution of the FOP and PBA. No government employees have any right to unionize.
We have allowed thugs in blue and those who cover for them to establish an elite class of protected, overcompensated, rogue villains who answer to no one but their paramilitary peers.
“Sgt. John Wells told Fact Finders, Based on the video I dont see that the officers acted inappropriately.
We need a number of things to protect us against these maniacs.
1) Civilian review boards with the power to review cases and fine, suspend or fire cops.
2) Residency Laws - if you don’t LIVE in a community, you can’t POLICE that community.
3) Replacement of all “police chiefs” with civilian Law and Public Safety Directors who are not and never have been cops and answer to the Civilian authorities not his fellow officers.
4) Dissolution of the FOP and PBA. No government employees have any right to unionize.
We have allowed thugs in blue and those who cover for them to establish an elite class of protected, overcompensated, rogue villains who answer to no one but their paramilitary peers.
Needs to be said again.
Cops who kill gentle dogs like goldens just make people hate the cops more. To cops that dumb, everybody who isn’t a cop is a criminal, law-abiding citizen or not.
Dumbing down the police was one of the most disgustingly evil things that the left has done to our country. May they rot in Hell.
I hope that Conservative police candidates score low purposely so that we have our own infiltrators on the forces.
Yes, we need more police officers who follow Peelian principles on forces across this nation.
Sadly, it has been the trend historically for police forces to gain more power and authority and become more corrupt. Perhaps it is time to go back to neighborhood policing and acknowledge the authority of the law abiding citizens to take care of their own neighborhoods, villages, towns and cities.
“Union President Wells said in his opinion the night vision video from a neighbors security camera doesnt tell the whole story. “
Translation: Union Thug Boss tells people what they saw isn;t what they saw.
“The police are the public, and the public are the police.”
Peelian principles being followed would make a perfect relationship between the public and the police, however, we have an America-destroying _res_ent in the White Hut who is working to destroy that relationship by creating an “Us vs. Them” scenario instead.
Losers.
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