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Arundel police officer kills family's dog during search (Maryland)
Baltimore Sun ^ | February 02, 2014 | Colin Campbell and Tim Swift

Posted on 02/04/2014 5:16:16 AM PST by Ken H

Chief promises full investigation after Chesapeake Bay Retriever is shot twice in front yard

An Anne Arundel County police officer shot and killed a family's dog Saturday while investigating a burglary, officials said.

Police said the officer — a one-year veteran of the force who was not identified — was canvassing a neighborhood looking for witnesses around 4 p.m. Saturday.

When the officer went to a home in 900 block of Lombardee Circle in Glen Burnie the dog — a male Chesapeake Bay Retriever named Vern — "confronted" the officer in the front yard, police said. The officer then fired his weapon twice, killing the dog, police said.

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To: arthurus

Kids don’t generally attack and bite strangers.


21 posted on 02/04/2014 5:44:50 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Eagles6

Absolutely. I suspect the officer would have shot the Lab were it on a chain. It has been done, numerous times.


22 posted on 02/04/2014 5:44:58 AM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: EBH
...so there was no reason ...other than the officer's own stupidity abject contempt for the citizenry at work here.

Fixed.

23 posted on 02/04/2014 5:45:33 AM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
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To: arthurus

That cop is lucky to be alive...it is clear from the above photo that the dog was a foaming rabid menace to all humans in the neighborhood, and needed to be put down...this cop probably saved hundreds of children’s lives.


24 posted on 02/04/2014 5:45:45 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Vaquero

De rigueur.


25 posted on 02/04/2014 5:46:03 AM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: Fresh Wind

Sorry, the article says the dog was on the owner’s property. Our dogs are trained to stay in the yard. Second, many people these days have invisible fences, but if an officer is dumb enough to walk into the yard without permission...?

That is not a negligence issue on the part of the owner, it is a stupidity issue on the part of the officer.


26 posted on 02/04/2014 5:46:40 AM PST by EBH ( The Day of the Patriot has arrived.)
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To: Fresh Wind
By allowing the dog to run loose, without human supervision, its owners’ negligence contributed to the situation.

Did you read the article? The police say the dog confronted the officer in the front yard. The dog was not running loose.

27 posted on 02/04/2014 5:50:04 AM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
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To: Ken H

Wonder how long it will be until this cop shoots an innocent home owner while executing (pun intended) a ‘no knock warrant’.


28 posted on 02/04/2014 5:50:16 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: arthurus

I actually did a brief spellcheck via a search engine and picked the 1 wrong spelling and actually did a lift and copy.

what an internet.


29 posted on 02/04/2014 5:52:54 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Fresh Wind
There’s a reason why towns have leash laws.

ROTFLMAO!!! In some towns in soviet Red Hampshire; your dog is considered to be in compliance with leash laws as long as he is under verbal control of his master. No leash needed.

30 posted on 02/04/2014 5:53:10 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Ken H

I’m curious. How do phone company, power company, cable company, mail delivery, etc. people manage to go to multiple homes each and every day without shooting dogs that bark at them?

I’m guessing the answer is they would be fired and prosecuted for doing such a thing.


31 posted on 02/04/2014 5:55:46 AM PST by TheGipperWasRight
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To: arthurus

I work with a great lab named Oscar. He is totally rockin’ trained and even the owner is amazed at times at times at what just a whisper or the lift of a finger get’s him to do.

He recently went to an ER hospital and even the ER vet, who is the type most likely to get a bite, was impressed with Oscar’s behavior and training.

But...I’ve walked Oscar where he locks onto something and his bark & growl, when he is riled, can be very surprising. He had a little kid come running up to him the other day..and that startled him...and Oscar gave out a warning bark. The kid stopped dead in his tracks and the Dad who was following the kid did as well. Dad then asked if he could approach to get his kid. I smiled and told Oscar to sit and invited them to WALK UP and meet Oscar. We got to use it as a valuable ...people lesson...for the kid’s sake.

All this rambling to simply state...yeah even a lab can appear menacing. But, in this case the officer was clearly in the wrong and trespassing.


32 posted on 02/04/2014 5:57:20 AM PST by EBH ( The Day of the Patriot has arrived.)
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To: Ken H

The dog was on private property and so was the cop without a warrant.


33 posted on 02/04/2014 6:00:14 AM PST by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: fruser1
Apparently, the cop’s dogs have more rights than people.

Correct.

34 posted on 02/04/2014 6:01:53 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: EBH
it is a stupidity issue on the part of the officer.

Not stupidity. Overwhelming arrogance and the knowledge that there are never and personal consequences to police for killing peoples' pets (rarely any consequences for police killing people for that matter.)

35 posted on 02/04/2014 6:04:52 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Ken H
Did you read the article? The police say the dog confronted the officer in the front yard. The dog was not running loose.

If the dog wasn't behind a fence, or wasn't on a leash or chain, it was loose. Maybe not "running", but loose nonetheless.

36 posted on 02/04/2014 6:05:23 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Ken H
When the officer went to a home in 900 block of Lombardee Circle in Glen Burnie the dog — a male Chesapeake Bay Retriever named Vern — "confronted" the officer in the front yard, police said. The officer then fired his weapon twice, killing the dog, police said.

Applying the same rule that I do to all police shootings, I ask the simple question, "How would the police respond if I, instead of the policeman, had done precisely the same thing?" In this case, I am 100% certain I would have been arrested and lost my concealed carry.

A dog barking at you on its property is not a vicious dog, and a retriever is about the last dog breed in the world that would can expect to bite. This sissy cop should be fired.

37 posted on 02/04/2014 6:05:42 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: TheGipperWasRight
I’m guessing the answer is they would be fired and prosecuted for doing such a thing.

You bet, but they're not cops who don't have to follow laws, just ever flexible and nebulously defined "departmental guidlines."

38 posted on 02/04/2014 6:06:32 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: who knows what evil?
In some towns in soviet Red Hampshire; your dog is considered to be in compliance with leash laws as long as he is under verbal control of his master. No leash needed.

In this case, the dog's owners were inside the house and the dog was outside. Where was the verbal control?

39 posted on 02/04/2014 6:07:43 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: SampleMan

“Applying the same rule that I do to all police shootings, I ask the simple question, “How would the police respond if I, instead of the policeman, had done precisely the same thing?”

Exactly. And for pointing that out you and I are labeled “cop haters”. In most of the shooting by cop articles here if I had done THE EXACT SAME THING I would be sent straight to jail and would be looking at a long stint in prison.

But not the cop.

Some animals are better than others........


40 posted on 02/04/2014 6:10:20 AM PST by saleman
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