[FreedomCalls]

No knock raid. 'Beware of Dog' sign out. Searching for 'guns.' No guns found, family dog shot instead. "Oops, sorry 'bout that."

[FreedomCalls]

Forgot to tag that as an "excerpt."

[muawiyah]

Sounds like a paid hit of some kind gone bad. Remember that the daughter says she was out there running around the yard going toward the dog.

These cops missed their target.

Are they really cops or like the pukes we had out there in San Diego county this summer ~

Makes me wonder how the shooting of that football player worked to change the W/L records in pro-football. Anyone know?

[randog]

Saint Bernard, huh? What--were they afraid of getting slobbered to death?

[lesser_satan]

Everybody knows St. Bernards are vicious, bloodthirsty killers. I'm sure these cops were just acting in self defense. /sarc

I'm surprised they didn't shoot the kid as well. After all, it sounds like she was running in their general direction.

[Myrddin]

Garnish the officer's wages until he pays off the cost of a replacement St. Bernard puppy. Failure to heed the "Beware of Dog" sign, failure to call the residents on the phone and killing the dog on the pretense that it was "lunging" at them. In the end, it was a fishing expedition without merit.

What business is it of the police to care whether the residents have guns? The right to keep and bear arms is a protected the 2nd amendment. Trampling on people's rights and destroying their private property at the same time. There was no mention that "guns" were being used by the residents to threaten or inflict harm on anyone.

[Dead Corpse]

The police report in the incident does not list any guns found at the Harris home

Ok... next idiot to approve of gun control laws gets my fist in his teeth. No more Mr. Nice-guy. "Shall not be infringed". If you don't understand the words you have no business enforcing any arbitrary laws.

[Artemis Webb]

St. Bernard's are about as mild mannered as they come. I hope the cops are fired and the family sues...and wins.

[Hegemony Cricket]

Well, golly, I always try real hard to give the boys in blue the benefit of the doubt, but there are some who make that durn near impossible...

[exnavy]

Unbelievable

[Enosh]

St. Bernards can lunge, but a more appropriate defense might be something like a fuzzy cube, or a slingshot armed with a sponge.

[HairOfTheDog]

No knock raid. 'Beware of Dog' sign out. Searching for 'guns.' No guns found, family dog shot instead. "Oops, sorry 'bout that."

They were outside in the yard and had not yet gotten to the door. What were they supposed to 'knock' on? The sidewalk? The dog was loose and was shot off the owner's property. They did retreat and the dog was not fenced or under anyone's control, as he should have been. This was not a 'raid', they were not just out randomly 'searching for guns' they were investigating a gun complaint. The details of that complaint were not given here.

I'm not saying it was a justified shoot, but please, lets stick to the actual facts presented (of which there are not many) when drawing transparent preconceived anti-cop conclusions about it, OK?

[LongElegantLegs]

Poor kid.

[GBA]

This "police officer" or the city or both needs to do more than simply buy them a dog and apologize.

Courts are beginning to recognize that dogs are frequently considered to be highly valued members of the family, that families have a strong and valued emotional attachment to their animals. (Anyone with a heart who has lost a dog knows this to be true) Thus, shooting a family pet is much more than simply shooting "a dog".

I'm not normally sue happy, but I hope that the family finds a very competent attorney and a very sympathetic judge and jury.

[headsonpikes]

"Old Yeller" for the 21st Century.

[Wilhelm Tell]

"While she's running toward the dog, they kill him. She's yelling, 'Why'd you shoot him? I was going to get him. Why'd you shoot him?'" Harris said.

I imagine these cops are in trouble. They shot the family dog but they did not shoot the child, too. They will probably be reprimanded for not shooting the child. After all, she could have been hiding an "assault rifle" or a nuclear bomb or something.

[norton]

"...no one was arrested."

So the cops got off again.

This is the crap that makes me question my support for the local constabulary.
This and the raid they pulled on me when I dialed 911.

[Natural Law]

More big gun, little dick cops.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Good departments do investigate questionable shootings, and bad cops can be punished. You may need to light a fire under somebody's ass (either higher up in the chain of command or in the DA's office) to get it done, however.

[Prost1]

Sounds like Lon Horiuchi was on the team...

Remember him..FBI sharpshooter who killed Randy Weaver's dog, then his wife.

All too familiar.

[Shadowstrike]

I wish total justice on the total baseborns who did this.