[Altariel]

sad ping, about a beagle.

[Altariel]

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Look! There's a dog! Somebody shoot it, quick!

[Altariel]

Cop vs. “Snoopy”....

Well.....

[skinkinthegrass]

thanks, for the post.JBT Ping.

[Paladin2]

Most dogs are not going to retreat from an obvious threat to the pack.

[pgyanke]

I’m just thinking we should arm UPS & FedEx drivers... it’s amazing any of those guys make it home every day!

[Envisioning]

Shoot MY dog in MY yard and you WILL be in fear for your lives!

[Secret Agent Man]

i doubt the dog was a threat in this case. adrenalized cops on the job.

cops come onto your property and dogs react to strangers acting funny and aggressive. they shoot dogs in their owned fenced in back yards. they shoot freaking golden retrievers.

these are the cops i will not miss when the shtf and they’re on their own.

[pgyanke]

If we accept this premise will we also accept the premise of dead neighbors because they tried to defend themselves from JBT coming onto their property? The dog did nothing wrong. It’s his job to identify those coming onto the property.

[Altariel]

Willy Pete

http://dogingtonpost.com/wv-state-troopers-shoot-kill-beagle-mix-during-search-for-unrelated-fugitive/#.U62_EShMbk8

[lostboy61]

O big bad @ss cops just had to shoot the man eating beagle four times. Poor judgment and crappy shoots that's what you get with poorly trained, stupid, pig hamper cops.

[sagar]

“absolutely have to put more value on the human life side of the equation than the side of the animal,”

Just wait until the anti-cop brigade descends and starts persecuting the cops.

[fulltlt]

"West Virginia State Police Lieutenant Michael Baylous said the dog was a threat, and troopers did what they are trained to do."

Do they use menacing beagle targets in their training?

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Come on! The cops have to use up at least SOME of all the billions of bullets that DHS bought up in the last two years; practice perhaps, for when 0.00 unleashes HIS 'civilian national security force' on the USSA!

</EXTREME sarc>

[luvbach1]

Here’s a, perhaps rhetorical, question for the police: Why is it when I was an unarmed courier for two years, encountering aggressively “barking” dogs on several occasions, that none of them initiated an attack after I paused and waited for them to settle down, but police often find the need to shoot them in similar situations? The answer can be found in the article: it’s because, according to a police superior, that is what they are trained to do; shoot, if, in their sole opinion, they feel threatened. Whether they are really threatened in objective reality matters little.

[dennisw]

I have little interest in dogs but even I know beagles are harmless. I have been around them enough to know.

[Slambat]

“Many of us are dog lovers, but when it comes down to it, you absolutely have to put more value on the human life side of the equation than the side of the animal,” Baylous said.

No you don’t. Not when the fuzz is trespassing on private
property without permission. Besides his statement is BS
anyway. If not then why are there all those animal cruelty
laws? These cops are like most cops, cowards.

[Morgana]

Mason County. I will not say more

[Cold Heart]

There it is, right there in the article. They train them to shoot dogs.

“troopers did what they were trained to do”