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Family still wonders why police killed their dog
Chicago Tribune ^ | September 10, 2010 | Wendy E. Normandy

Posted on 12/21/2010 8:28:21 AM PST by Immerito

The Labriola family dog, Spuddy, was something of a legend on his Blue Island block, where neighbors stopped to give the 15-year-old mutt a friendly pat on the head or toss him a treat.

One of those neighbors this summer tried to explain to a police officer that the old dog wasn't a stray but belonged to the Labriolas, on the 12200 block of Maple Avenue.

By the end of that June day, however, Spuddy had been shot four times in the head by another officer who believed the animal was near death. His remains were thrown into a garbage bin at a city public works facility.

(Excerpt) Read more at articles.chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: blueisland; copshootsdog; doggieping; donutwatch; il; illinois; warondogs
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This is an older article, but it didn't seem to be posted on Free Republic.

It seems, based on communication I have with an acquaintance, that the dog owner was not liked by the police department; she was very outspoken (and sometimes outspoken against abuses of the local police department), and this may have contributed to this act of apparent retaliation.

1 posted on 12/21/2010 8:28:27 AM PST by Immerito
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To: Immerito

It’s the Chicago way.


2 posted on 12/21/2010 8:33:10 AM PST by edcoil ("The only winning move is not to play")
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To: Immerito
Family still wonders why police killed their dog

Because they could.

3 posted on 12/21/2010 8:33:56 AM PST by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: edcoil
This crap continues to happen because none of the cops involved has had to pay so much as a five dollar fine let alone any payback of a more personal nature by their victims.

Once the perpetrators of these killings start being held to account either by the Courts or by the public this behavior will cease.

4 posted on 12/21/2010 8:36:23 AM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: ScottinVA

Because they could.
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That was my answer as well.


5 posted on 12/21/2010 8:37:07 AM PST by Irenic
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To: Immerito

Practicing Obamacare.


6 posted on 12/21/2010 8:39:54 AM PST by BulletBobCo
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To: Immerito
May the Big Dog in the sky make him pay.


7 posted on 12/21/2010 8:43:19 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: Immerito

I hope Spuddy haunts the cop every day of their life.


8 posted on 12/21/2010 8:45:46 AM PST by jrcats (Sarah Palin's Alaska beats Obama's D.C. Disaster!)
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To: Irenic; ScottinVA

Because they could... get away with it.

ditto


9 posted on 12/21/2010 8:47:10 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Immerito
There are two sides to every story. I read the whole article and...

The police chief told the Tribune the shooting resulted from a series of misunderstandings and carried out by a well-meaning officer who believed the dog –– who had a large, benign tumor growing on his neck and struggled to breathe –– was suffering.

10 posted on 12/21/2010 8:47:36 AM PST by McGruff
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To: edcoil

The officer probably grew up on a farm.


11 posted on 12/21/2010 8:48:05 AM PST by OldNavyVet (One trillion days, at 365 days per year, is 2,739,726,027 years ... almost 3 billion years)
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To: Lurker

I think the best idea I have heard is that payments to victims should come from the pension fund for the officers. That might reduce it and the “good” officers will want to protect their pensions and manage their less trustworthy co-workers.


12 posted on 12/21/2010 8:50:29 AM PST by edcoil ("The only winning move is not to play")
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"The officer probably grew up on a farm."

Most farmers I know respect the property rights of others.

13 posted on 12/21/2010 8:52:43 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack
Here in cattle country....IF, we see a dog running cattle, and we know the dog's owner..we tell them.

If we don't know the dog and it's running cattle...we shoot it.

14 posted on 12/21/2010 8:54:55 AM PST by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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To: ScottinVA

The dog was 15 years old, had no collar or tags, was laying on a curb, had a tumor on its neck, and had difficulty breathing.


15 posted on 12/21/2010 8:56:25 AM PST by Moonman62 (Half of all Americans are above average. Politicians come from the other half.)
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To: Osage Orange

Didn’t sound like this dog was pestering too many cattle.


16 posted on 12/21/2010 8:57:31 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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"The dog was 15 years old, had no collar or tags, was laying on a curb, had a tumor on its neck, and had difficulty breathing."

Did it have a chip? We don't know, and it doesn't sound like the cops even bothered to check. Certainly the owners have a share in this in as much as the dog was loose, and that contributed to the circumstances. Having said that, it sounds as though the first cop was told exactly where the dog lived and did nothing with the info.

17 posted on 12/21/2010 8:59:59 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Yeah I know.......: >


18 posted on 12/21/2010 9:00:12 AM PST by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Speaking of chips, I know a person whose dog got out and ended up causing a major accident on a California freeway.

The Chip led authorities to the owner.

Guess who got sued.


19 posted on 12/21/2010 9:06:18 AM PST by OldNavyVet (One trillion days, at 365 days per year, is 2,739,726,027 years ... almost 3 billion years)
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To: Moonman62

Fair enough, but given that cops seem to have developed a penchant for shooting non-threatening pets (chihuahua and golden retriever) lately, I look at what they do with a jaundiced eye.


20 posted on 12/21/2010 9:18:40 AM PST by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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