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Deputy shoots dog twice, owner calls it overreaction
Wink News ^ | January 13, 2011 | Unknown

Posted on 01/14/2011 10:52:47 AM PST by Immerito

SAN CARLOS PARK, Fla. - A Lee County deputy goes in a woman's yard, and ends up facing off with a family pet. He shot the dog twice, and now the owner is furious, demanding answers, saying her dog did nothing wrong.

Christine Bonelli was inside her San Carlos Park home Thursday afternoon when she heard two shots. "First I thought it was fireworks and said no, that's gunshots I think," Bonelli said.

She stepped outside to find two deputies and her Foxhound Mix "Harley" with gunshot wounds. "Blood was coming out of his shoulder and on his leg, coming out of his mouth," Bonelli said.

A neighbor tells WINK News he warned deputies that Harley was in the fenced-in backyard, but they continued on. "They said he was in the chair when he came in the yard, and he came running and barking at them, protecting his property, he didn't bite them, he might have shown teeth, but they shot him twice," Bonelli said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: badcopnodonut; banglist; cw2; donutwatch; fl; florida; foxhound; irondick; lping; mixedbreed; sancarlospark; scumbagwithbadge; warondogs
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To: ZX12R

>>At some point, one of these idiots will shoot the wrong guy’s dog, and pay for it with their lives.<<

If I’m on the jury, he’ll walk free and I’ll give the dogs owner $25K after taxes and lawyers fees of the taxpayers money. Maybe they’ll get smart enough to fire the Mayor and his Police Chief.


61 posted on 01/14/2011 1:27:35 PM PST by B4Ranch (Do NOT remain seated until this ride comes to a full and complete stop! We're going the wrong way!)
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To: org.whodat

That’s ridiculous. That is NOT a pit bull.


62 posted on 01/14/2011 1:31:05 PM PST by Politicalmom (America-The Land of the Sheep, the Home of the Caved.)
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To: Immerito

Sue them.


63 posted on 01/14/2011 1:33:36 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (Liberals are educated above their level of intelligence.. Thanks Sr. Angelica)
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To: OneWingedShark

Among others.......

org.whodat, Condor7, et al.......


64 posted on 01/14/2011 1:37:38 PM PST by Emperor Palpatine (I'm shocked! Shocked to find out that gambling is going on in here!)
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To: Politicalmom

Looking at wrong animal. Has a wound to the bottom of his jaw.


65 posted on 01/14/2011 1:39:22 PM PST by org.whodat
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To: Lurker

“DRT” ???


66 posted on 01/14/2011 2:01:28 PM PST by dervish (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself)
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To: Balding_Eagle
Watch even just one, it will bring you into the reality of just how free we really are were

Fixed it. ;)

Just teasing. I'm not saying we're Nazi Germany. But geez, look how far we've fallen in a generation. We're by far, the most imprisoned nation on the planet. We're all terrified of committing some offense we don't even know about. Look @ the airport. Now, our President claims the authority to declare American citizens "enemies" and have them summarily killed. And it barely raises an eyelash among the sheeple! I'd say that's pretty much "game over" for our Constitutional protections.

67 posted on 01/14/2011 2:12:08 PM PST by Forgotten Amendments (I'd rather be Plaxico Burress than Sean Taylor)
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To: dervish
DRT=Dead Right There. No warning, no suprise. Bang! Lights out.

Should happen alot more often, to alot of 2 legged critters......

68 posted on 01/14/2011 2:26:24 PM PST by DCBryan1 (FORGET the lawyers...first kill the "journalists". (Die Ritter der Kokosnuss))
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To: Wicket
3 words...paid, administrative leave...

and likely to be 'getting their bones' in the gang...

69 posted on 01/14/2011 2:40:20 PM PST by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

“The frog is boiled. “

Just repeating in case this was lost in the thread.


70 posted on 01/14/2011 2:45:51 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (Here's a thought!! Donate to the website you are on RIGHT NOW!! .... *waves hi to DS*)
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To: Immerito
I’m no perfect marksman myself but if the dog truly were within biting range don’t you think a cop could hit his target?

No.

71 posted on 01/14/2011 4:25:16 PM PST by OldPossum
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To: Forgotten Amendments

Right..and let me get this straight..cops can open a gate and shoot a barking dog and it’s not animal cruelty and TSA can grope and it’s not sexual battery. Hmmmm....


72 posted on 01/14/2011 4:41:49 PM PST by alamogal
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To: org.whodat

It is not one of the pitbull breeds, it is a foxhound mix.

You are welcome to provide objective evidence demonstrating the existence of any percentage of American Staffordshire Bull Terrier in the dog, since you are making the claim.

Claiming that a dog is a pitbull is like claiming a dog is a spitz-—both are words used to describe types of dogs, not breeds of dogs, and only those ignorant of canines use either “spitz” or “pitbull” in reference to breed.


73 posted on 01/14/2011 6:04:15 PM PST by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
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To: Immerito

The cops said it was a pit bull and the picture of the dog with the bullet hole is a pit bull. Period!


74 posted on 01/14/2011 6:06:26 PM PST by org.whodat
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To: alamogal

Apparently so. But remember, if YOU shoot a policedog, it’s murder of a police officer.

Shooting the patricians’ dogs, bad; shooting the plebians’ dogs, good, according to the police officers who have abandoned Sir. Robert Peel’s principles.


75 posted on 01/14/2011 6:06:39 PM PST by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
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To: org.whodat

Assertions are not evidence, and repetition of ignorance is not fact. Your intellectual dishonesty continues to be unsurprising.


76 posted on 01/14/2011 6:07:46 PM PST by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
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To: org.whodat

The cops illegally, without warrant, entered the yard of the homeowner and illegally, without just cause, shot her dog. A witness overheard them discussing how they were going to explain the case.

If these cops were telling the truth, would they need to discuss how they were going to explain it to the public?

Are the cops experts in ascertaining dog breeds with no self-interest in covering their respective arses and capable of documenting that claim with evidence?

Are you capable of correctly identifying the American Staffordshire Bull Terrier among these breeds?

http://www.pitbullsontheweb.com/petbull/findpit.html


77 posted on 01/14/2011 6:10:25 PM PST by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
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To: org.whodat

These are pictures of Harley.

http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=191883317495051&view=all

Show us evidence that we are looking at an American Staffordshire Bull Terrier that does not stem from your imagination or the claims of those caught engaging in illegal activity.


78 posted on 01/14/2011 6:14:28 PM PST by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
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To: allmendream

You would think that such things would be pounded into their heads at the police academy; but common sense is becoming increasingly uncommon.


79 posted on 01/14/2011 6:16:32 PM PST by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
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To: Immerito
If you want to call the cops lier’s it OK with me, maybe you want to go down and shoot it out with them, I will be glad to call and make you an appointment. And if you had sense enough to read what I said, I aid he had no business in the yard.
80 posted on 01/14/2011 6:19:18 PM PST by org.whodat
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