Posted on 08/10/2011 8:14:26 PM PDT by BBell
A 25-year-old man sued the Gretna Police Department Tuesday, alleging his civil rights were violated by a police officer who sicced his canine on him without provocation, leading the dog to bite
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How are you doing?
Fine on this end.
Whenever I see this I always want to ask if they have set a date for the wedding.
The term "fiancée" has become nothing more than a word women use to make people think their baby daddy isn't just... a baby daddy.
Sorry for the hijack, It's my pet peeve.
Back to the topic at hand.
So the suspect says he was on his knees at the time of the attack. The officer says he was running.
I would expect that a police dog would more likely bite a running man on one of the legs (or perhaps, grab an arm in its jaws).
A direct bite to the genitals seems to lend more credence to the suspect’s story on that score.
This definitely bears further investigation by an external agency.
*Years* ago in a magazine some wandering photog published a series of pictures in which a mother rat backed a Dobe down off a construction site dirt pile and chased it away from her babies.
I had a rat [creatively named “Rat Woman”] who would go right for my crotch-chomping Wonder Dobe’s toes.
She really freaked him out.
He was in the kitchen one day and I kept seeing him hopping on the other side of the baby gate.
I thought he was just being goofy and wanting out to get in between me and the artwork I was doing.
She’d slipped under gate and was pestering his toes something terrible.
She never bit him hard...just toenail nips and he knew she was mine so he wouldn’t defend himself against her.
Crazy critters.
:)
Awwwww......:)
Mine just brings me smelly socks.
;D
As fine as baby frog hair, here....:)
How does a dog bite a *fleeing* man in his (ahem) “package”, anyway?
The back of the leg (or the back) are larger, more logical targets for a dog attacking a fleeing suspect.
Of course, there are details like this which don’t bode well for the officers involved:
“According to the lawsuit, Mekdessie and Kindell “harassed” Melancon days before the incident outside a nightclub in Gretna, in which Kindell, Mekdessie and Zin conducted an illegal search of his car. Finding nothing, the officers allegedly claimed Melancon’s truck radio was too loud and issued a citation to justify their search. Words were exchanged, and Melancon went home, the suit says.”
Being the cynic I am I was not there so I could be wrong.
I’m not seeing anywhere in the article where the police dog was identified as a doberman. Where are you getting that information????
You allowed your poor, innocent doberman to be tortured by a democRAT?
What did he ever do to you to merit THAT?
:-) ;-)
(with apologies to your Ratus (norvegicus?) )
“Why would the officer say”stop fighting with my dog” when he hadn’t even released the dog to attack.”
Why would police officers yell “Stop resisting!” when the homeless man they are beating is already comatose?
I agree, the cop cannot handle the animal, put it down.
I couldn’t find a breed ID either.
That’s why I asked.
It was that “frothing Cujo-Dobe” photo the article used that ticked me off.
I’d like to know what they put all over that dog’s mouth to get that “rabid psycho” look.
Smells like an attempt to demonize Dobes....*again*.
:D
She really was a nice rat.
I think she was grateful for *not* ending up as snake food but his moving toes were just something she couldn’t resist.
Paradoxically, she’d snuggle up with him if slept on the floor.
She was albino so her eyesight was probably awful.
Who knows what she thought his toes were?
:)
Why would police officers yell “Stop resisting!” when the homeless man they are beating is already comatose?/
Good point.
On this page, we have a Rottweiler stock photo.
http://www.personalliberty.com/news/man-sues-over-police-dog-bite-to-groin-35503/
Why not just show the GSD or Malinois that most likely was the actual dog breed in use?
[or just post the obligatory, knee-jerk reaction savage pit bull photo and be done with it]
The dog in question is a Belgian.
The story had a write up about the officer, the dog & his extensive training in a local magazine a while back that I read.
Thank you for answering my question.
If it was actually a Malinois, why all the photos of other breeds being shown in the articles?
[the Malinois has replaced most other breeds in police work primarily due to their higher levels of aggression and “sharpness”]
PD dogs cost a fortune to train.
The dog should be removed from that officer and given to another, -better- handler, IMO.
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