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Wilmington police shoot, kill dog during search for suspect
Star News Online ^ | May 1, 2013 | Brian Freskos

Posted on 05/01/2013 6:22:31 PM PDT by Altariel

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To: Salamander

Yeah, I was thinking it looked like there might be some spitz in there.

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“That dog goes right to the mailbox doing his business and doesn’t go out of that yard,” Abdul Akbar said. “The dog has a tendency when he sees another dog to want to play. Everybody knows that dog.”

Akbar said the yard is unfenced, but the dog doesn’t leave its boundaries. He said the owner let the dog out to use the bathroom, and then it was shot four times by police.

The driver who fled escaped and was still at large Wednesday afternoon.

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21 posted on 05/01/2013 8:35:47 PM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: Eaker; Salamander

Yep, and like Obama, they have set themselves up as a separate “class” or “caste” above us-—shoot their dog, be treated as though you shot a man in the eyes of the law.

Shoot one of our dogs, well, clearly, it must’ve DESERVED it. Peasant’s dogs always do.

(Do I need a sarc?)


22 posted on 05/01/2013 8:37:44 PM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: Joe 6-pack

Given the wound placement, it clearly was running at the shooter.

</sarc>


23 posted on 05/01/2013 8:42:06 PM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: Altariel

Before I got my first Ibizan Hound, I had no fence, here.

Arthur and Merlin, the red Dobes, skidded to a halt at my property line.

[I have no idea how they knew where it was but they obviously did]

All the Dobes I owned at my childhood home had no fences and ran loose 24/7.

They never stepped over the line.

The people up the pike have a Collie who lays on their front porch and it’s not even 20 feet from RT 40.

I’ve never even seen it venture off the porch.

Some dogs just do that.

If a strange dog runs into my yard somehow, is it my dogs’ fault if they rush out to repel it?

That’s their job.

Should they be murdered for doing it?

They don’t know ‘cop dog’ from ‘intruder dog’.

You’d think cops would be smart enough to make an allowance.


24 posted on 05/01/2013 8:47:34 PM PDT by Salamander
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Poor thing’s snout is buried in the dirt as if it died running and plunged forward plus the camera angle is distorting the perspective, overall.

As I said, looks like Muff or any other Husky/GSD mix I see in backyards everywhere.


25 posted on 05/01/2013 8:50:09 PM PDT by Salamander
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Looks mesaticephalic to me.


26 posted on 05/01/2013 8:53:06 PM PDT by Salamander
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To: Altariel

Backing into him at full speed, apparently.


27 posted on 05/01/2013 8:54:11 PM PDT by Salamander
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To: Eaker

Couldn’t have said it better.


28 posted on 05/01/2013 9:35:29 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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29 posted on 05/02/2013 12:45:36 AM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Eaker

Looks like a fat German Shepard x Hound mix. Shep for the coat color, some sort of hound for the ears and pudginess. Prolly the sort to drown you in slobber.


30 posted on 05/02/2013 2:21:31 AM PDT by Fire_on_High (RIP City of Heroes and Paragon Studios, victim of the Obamaconomy.)
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To: Altariel

“Abdul Akbar”

Well there you go.

“Akbar said the yard is unfenced, but the dog doesn’t leave its boundaries”

This is like those who tell people their dog never bites. Then it does.

Or those parents that say “not my son”. Despite overwhelming evidence.

People, don’t totally trust your dogs. It’s nice, but just because he doesn’t most of the time doesn’t mean there will not be an exception.


31 posted on 05/02/2013 8:13:36 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: Salamander

Could definitely be, but that don’t fly as a good pix and evidence. Need a solid photo of the head to verify.


32 posted on 05/02/2013 8:16:22 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: Altariel

Article says he was shot 4 times, or at least shot AT 4 times. Could’ve been a struggle.


33 posted on 05/02/2013 8:21:42 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: Salamander

There were also several officers, not just 1. And multiple shots. Different angles all possible.


34 posted on 05/02/2013 8:24:44 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

The government employees, not Abdul Akbar, were caught in a lie.

The neighbors are vouching for the good behavior of the dog, not the government employees.

Careful, lest one day others suggest that your name should be cause enough for others to not believe your word above a government employee’s word.


35 posted on 05/03/2013 5:45:43 AM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: Salamander

Unfortunately, cops have convinced themselves, by and large, that the lives of a few peasant’s dogs are unworthy of their concern.

The 95% of LEOs make the 5% of peace officers look bad.


36 posted on 05/03/2013 5:47:24 AM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: Altariel

Bottom line is we don’t have all the info, some of the info is questionable, yet again you assume all was good with the dog and cops are just bad. Your prejudice is so obvious, Alt.


37 posted on 05/03/2013 6:35:12 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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