that officer would not be alive long, depending on whose yard it was.
Dude, I don’t think that’s a Chessie in the photo.
Looks like a black lab.
Probably wanted a treat.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
Why was he walking through yards? Don’t people in Anne Arundel have front doors? Telephones?
A wise person once posted on this forum that nothing can’t be made worse by involving the police. I think of that every time I read one of these stories. In this story alone there is one officer showing contempt for private property, living beings and fellow members of their “community”. Disgusting.
Why are they referring to the dog owner as a dog guardian? Liberal BS.
I hope the cop is sued for deprivation of property under color of law or something. Stupid cop.
Have they quit issuing pepper spray to cops?
It is extremely effective on dogs. Probably more effective than a gunshot at least for a few seconds.
“one year veteran”
oxymoron if I ever heard one.
Let’s wright a new headline.
Chicken man with gun murders family pooch.
... Chesapeake Bay retriever, who barked at the intruder
I guess Vern's bark was worse than his bite.
Was the dog texting in a movie theater or something?
When was the last time a cop was killed by a dog in the United States? How often are cops seriously injured by dogs?
Conversely, how many family pets are shot and killed by cops every year?
Somethings out of whack.
He looked at me and said 'I unloaded on your dog. Your dog attacked me, and I killed it.'"
There it is in a nutshell. In the course of 'investigating' a crime, the officer entered private property, a dog barked at him, and he shot the dog. Think about this; using this excuse, someone selling girl scout cookies could enter your yard, have a dog bark at them, and then kill the dog, and it is perfectly okay. After all, officers have set the barrier to using deadly force at a bark. They don't have to have any search warrant, hot pursuit, etc to do it either, simply enter your yard and claim that they were 'investigating for witnesses.'
A comforting thought to go to sleep with.
I’m so sick of this crap! A burglary means the thief is not at the scene. Why is he walking around in peoples’ yards at night. Too bad someone didn’t unload on the damn cop.
Back around 1980 I lived in Virginia Beach. I was issued pepper spray which was 1/10 of one percent pepper. It was not intended back then for use against criminals but in case we had to deal with a bad dog. That is probably about 100 times weaker than is commonly used today tho we did not know about scoville heat units.
I always kept a few cans around. One Saturday I walked out to a nearby strip mall for a newspaper. I had only gone a few feet before spotting a mean looking doberman. I went back in and got a can of spray. The dog did not bother me probably because I was wary of him.
I got the paper and while walking back home was absorbed at skimming over the paper but just caught a motion out of the corner of my eye. The doberman was heading right for me and he looked mean. I waited until he was only a couple of feet away and hit him with the spray. It stopped him like he had been pole axed. He began scraping the grass trying to get the stuff out of his eyes etc.
If that weak stuff was that effective, the extremely strong stuff the cops carry would stop a dog like a brick wall.
Why don’t they use the spray instead of shooting them? Maybe because they are told and trained that they can.