Posted on 11/11/2013 12:03:53 PM PST by nickcarraway
A Columbus woman says she wants answers after a Columbus Police officer allegedly shot her dog in the face Saturday night.
Pam Groom says she called CPD's non-emergency number on Saturday night asking for an officer to come to her home on Wager Street because a suspicious person was in her backyard. According to Groom CPD did dispatch a first set of officers to her home whom Groom describes as very nice.
However, later that evening Groom says the suspicious person returned and so did police. According to Groom her dog was shot in its backyard while on a chain.
Groom says officers heard her yelling at the suspicious person in the backyard. One officer she says approached the back of her home with his gun drawn.
"The officer said 'It's a pit bull, he's going to attack.' The dog was standing perfectly still 15 feet away from him. He said 'Well he's a pit bull, he's going to attack' and he shot," Groom said.
The bullet struck Koda in the nose and exited through his neck. Groom took him to OSU's emergency veterinary hospital where Koda was treated.
According to Groom her dog is a boxer-mix, not a pit bull.
A police report time stamped at 8:42 p.m. on Saturday indicates a dog was shot by an officer at Groom's home.
CPD spokesperson Sgt. Rich Weiner said that the matter was under investigation.
He hadn’t met his quota for dead dogs.
Sheesh! When will people git it?
A 12-guage is your friend, however.
It sounds like the dog survived. She better put the dog in witness protection since the cop didn’t get to kill it.
I have two Springer Spaniels that would not bite a good steak, if that was one of my dogs Barney Fife would be dead, I will take my chances with the courts...
As I learned here, there are few situations so bad they can’t be made worse by the addition of a cop.
At least the cop was able to go home to his family at the end of the day. That’s all that counts.
[hope i don’t need this, but just in case /SARC]
If it’s got four legs, a tail, and a bark, it’s a pit bull. Lassie was a pit bull. Old Yeller was a pit bull.
Think about it. Now the postmen will want to be armed. Mission creep.
I just can’t imagine why so many people hate the pigs.
We had an officer on the scene of a small plane crash. He tried to save the 2 men inside. He injured himself on the metal plane but kept working despite the injury. Both occupants of the plane were dead. The officer took 2 years to die from complications of his injuries. He was only 38 years old, a veteran from Afghanistan, 2 tours. We need more like him.
Pierce Morgan would call that an AK47 fully barkomatic.
Don't you love the press? I'll bet she wants more than answers.
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