[Responsibility2nd]

Very long story.

Long story short: crazy homeless person loses his dog, tries to kill himself.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

How the free traitors could have chosen communist slave labor over the Vets who defended their freedom is beyond me.

[PIF]

Long story short: crazy homeless VETERAN loses his dog, tries to kill himself.

[mware]

Wait, they killed the dog!!!!

[TexasGator]

““I was just standing there {in the median}, waving at people, when this lady waved me over and offered me money,” Rohrer told Military Times. “

Right!

[Flick Lives]

As he was taken away by police for booking, Rohrer said he begged the officers to let Sunshine come with him. He cited a North Carolina statute that affords people with disabilities the right to keep their service dogs with them, especially in cases where the individual’s health is at risk.

“They laughed at me,” he said. “I begged them to bring her to me or to give her to an officer to take with them but they wouldn’t listen, they didn’t care.”

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These are the sort of cops that would kill the unvaccinated if ordered to do so.

[PIF]

Rohrer deployed to Kuwait and Iraq from October 2004 to November 2005 with the Kentucky Army National Guard. He suffers from service-connected post-traumatic stress disorder, and his 2-year-old Belgian Malinois Sunshine was his Veterans Affairs-prescribed treatment ...

He wasn’t moving fast enough so he tried to reach into his pocket to get his ID. They slammed him up against the car and they put cuffs on him. ...

Sunshine, responding to his distress, jumped up on the hood trying to help him ...

“She was just doing her job, licking me and trying to calm me down,” Rohrer said. “The cops starting yelling at her and me, telling me to get her to settle down, but they wouldn’t allow me to physically get control of her.”

Rohrer said Sunshine nipped at one of the officer’s ankles as she was hopping down from the hood of the car, prompting the officer to tase her.

“We’re out here screaming, ‘Don’t shoot the dog! Don’t shoot the dog!’” Huffman said.

Huffman said Sunshine ran to a nearby store with one of the taser prongs dangling off her body while police took Rohrer to the back of the car and “slammed him on the pavement.”

As he was taken away by police for booking, Rohrer said he begged the officers to let Sunshine come with him. He cited a North Carolina statute that affords people with disabilities the right to keep their service dogs with them, especially in cases where the individual’s health is at risk.

“They laughed at me,” he said. “I begged them to bring her to me or to give her to an officer to take with them but they wouldn’t listen, they didn’t care.”

Rohrer never saw Sunshine again. While his friend and fellow veteran Dave Dowell was able to get his hands on the service dog that night, she later slipped her leash and ran away while Rohrer was still in jail,.

After nearly two days, Sunshine was found in nearby Shelby, where Dowell lives. She had been hit by a car and killed. Losing Sunshine and facing the allegedly rough and careless treatment of the police left Rohrer feeling hopeless enough that he “just wanted to die,” he said.

Pvt. First Class Joshua Rohrer (right) and two of his fellow soldiers pose for a photo in a 642nd Military Intelligence Battalion's photo album, owned by Rohrer. (Courtesy of Joshua Rohrer/ Facebook)

[TexasGator]

" ... tased his serviceemotional support dog ..."

In the doorway with no leash!

[old curmudgeon]

I am surprised and disappointed so many a$$ holes are on FR.

No one should be treated that way other than maybe a mass murderer.

Or some of the posters here.

And not one word in the story about disciplining the cops.

[Seruzawa]

Another poor victim who foolishly accepted “help” from psychiatrists. As if permanently damaging your nervous system with drugs and ECT is going to make things better.

[Pajamajan]

Horrible story. Sad.

What kind of scum calls cops on homeless person (much less a Veteran) with dog, not bothering anyone (and who cares if he's panhandling or not)

Do they not think the police had more important things to do than deal with a homeless panhandler?

[BlackAdderess]

Cops broke statutory law in separating this man from his VA prescribed service dog, the dog died, and that was also on their watch for having done the wrong thing. It seems likely that bias is provable thing too, but even if it isn’t, they broke the law, the ADA has been around for a long time, lots and lots of decisions are associated with it.

[BlackAdderess]

“ Rohrer deployed to Kuwait and Iraq from October 2004 to November 2005 with the Kentucky Army National Guard. He suffers from service-connected post-traumatic stress disorder, and his 2-year-old Belgian Malinois Sunshine was his Veterans Affairs-prescribed treatment, according to an official letter from the VA provided to Military Times by Rohrer.”

[sport]

That could not have happened. For as long as I have been on Free Republic.com, the theme I have read being posted the most is, “The Police are on our side”.

[sitetest]

My wife and I were thinking of moving to Gastonia. I think maybe that idea looks less likely in light of this article.

[Albion Wilde]

Absolutely heartbreaking.