Posted on 06/20/2015 6:52:58 AM PDT by EBH
A Columbus police officer accidentally wounded a 4-year-old girl in Whitehall on Friday when he fired at a charging dog, police said.
A neighbor and the girl’s uncle identified her as Ava Ellis, who was taken to Nationwide Children’s Hospital, where police said she was in stable condition.
The officer was at a house in the 4100 block of Chandler Drive investigating a hit-and-run case about 3:10 p.m., Columbus police spokeswoman Denise Alex-Bouzounis said.
As the officer was walking from the home to his patrol car, a woman a few houses away called out to him, saying her sister and the girl’s mother, Andrea Ellis, had cut herself.
The officer was at the doorway when a dog charged at him, Alex-Bouzounis said.
The officer fired once, missing the animal but striking the girl in the right leg. It was unclear whether the girl was hit directly or by a ricochet. The officer has not been identified.
Andrea Ellis was taken to OhioHealth Grant Medical Center for treatment of the cut.
Gary Parsley II said the officer was following up with him about Parsley’s being struck by a car a couple weeks ago. When the girl’s aunt called out to the officer, the officer walked over and Parsley returned to his house, when he heard a shot.
Neighbors say the officer walked back to his patrol car after the shooting.
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Wonder if this is the same officer? They sure seem to shoot a lot of dogs in Columbus, Ohio
Columbus Police Officer Fatally Shoots Family Dog
02/19/2014 6:18:42 AM PST · by Altariel · 61 replies
ABC 6 ^ | February 17, 2014 | James Jackson/Kelsey Mallahan
Updated: Monday, February 17 2014, 08:02 PM EST WEST COLUMBUS (James Jackson/Kelsey Mallahan)
— A family’s dog was fatally shot Sunday by police officers after they were called to the home because a moving truck was blocking traffic. Brittnay Bergman and Dustin Ramsey just moved into the house on South Wayne Ave. They said when officers came to their door, their three to four-year-old Boxer, Delilah, ran out of the house. “She jumped off the porch, growled at him. Put herself in the corner of our fence and greenhouse,” Ramsey said. Ramsey said that’s when the officer grabbed his weapon....
Woman Says Dog Shot In Face By Columbus Police Officer
11/11/2013 12:03:53 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 14 replies
NBC4i ^ | Nov 09, 2013 | Nadia Bashir
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....
I wonder if they’ll start giving out little silver shooting badges with a dog on it - then little extra stars for ever ten they shoot.
This is the sort of thing that happens when you let crazy people have guns.
Do civilian dogs lives matter as much as police dogs lives matter?
What is bothersome in this case is the dog was in the house. A stranger comes to the door and the a dog will naturally go to the door and bark, that isn’t “charging.” It is normal dog behavior.
A dog gives lots of signals it is a threat long before it charges up to bite you.
Why are police more pussies than mailmen? Step away from the door, ask the owner to leash the dog or put it in a room, and then re-enter.
It seems reasonable enough to me, but I believe officer training teaches them to not surrender physical space. So we may be expecting him to go against his training. Unfortunately, it seems they do not get training in “dog behavior” and this business of every barking dog is a threat gets tiresome.
Cops who do this need to start vanishing forever.
That’s part of the training, cops don’t back down, even when it would be the best thing to do. They’d rather kill a citizen then lose some of their aw-thor-a-tay.
They're not, just better armed! Where my mom lives in a retirement community, the mailmen actually ran up to a woman wit a leashed small dog and maced it for no reason whatsoever. After that they gave no mail service for a week, and where I live we had no service for two days because the mailman said he saw a loose dog. So I would say police and mailmen are both pussies when it comes to dogs but one is much more dangerous.
Well, that's all that matters, right? Dogs run to see who came to visit them. That's what they do. If the cop had just stopped and acknowledged the dog, a little girl wouldn't be in the hospital.
In a previous career, I had to go to people's houses and not once did I ever come close to being bitten.
A English sheep dog ended up latched onto the FTO’s butt inside the house and the rookie fires hitting his FTO in the leg with the bullet passing through and ricocheting and hitting the 11 y/o in the knee. The family dogs end up at the pound, the FTO and the kid go to the hospital and the father is cuffed because he is upset that the PD shot his son. I wonder why. From what I remember the city paid out big time and the rookie kept his job and got 2 weeks paid leave.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Rookie-Cop-s-Shot-Injures-Boy-Parents-Outraged-2798268.php
After Pool Party type incidents I really, really think the US white middle-class WANTS to support the cops.
But after MANY of these types of incidents it becomes difficult.
This particular incident appears to be a real mistake, but many of them are much less so.
A hard society to police is one with a strong cultural undercurrent of (black) chaos, paired with large numbers of (white) people ambivalent about their own cops.
Was it a poodle?
Speaking from a police family, I am thinking these people are not trained well enough or they need more watching.
They are trained to retreat from a suspect with a knife, if they can, before shooting.
What’s ridiculous is their standard for shooting dogs—if they “feel” threatened, whether or not they are, they can. (Kinda like someone who “feels” offended by whatever someone else has said.)
That essentially means it’s open season on dogs.
When I was a meter reader and went to someone’s door, if they had a dog, I used to put my foot up against it to prevent the owner from opening the screen door. I talked through the door then and asked them to lock the dog in a room for me.
They usually complied. We didn’t have side arms.
Man, I could tell you some stories about dogs. LOL
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