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Shooting Dogs, A Police Epidemic? Dog is Killed in Hazel Crest
chicagonow.com ^
| 12/27/2012
| Steve Dale
Posted on 12/27/2012 4:46:24 PM PST by fulltlt
Hazel Crest police searching for an escaped prisoner from the Metropolitan Correctional Center, traversed back yards in the south Chicago suburb....a Rhodesian Ridgeback (who the owner and others maintain was a friendly dog) was somehow perceived as a threat - and escaped the owner's yard (likely because police opened the gate themselves). And the answer: shoot and kill the dog?
Unbelievable isn't it? But this is - according to reports - exactly what happened.
This is the second occurrence in the Chicago area in a month of a friendly dog shot by police. A 7-month old pup survived when an Chicago Police Officer shot at him, December 1 on the north side. According to witnesses, the puppy was busily sniffing at a tree, as the police officer was busily writing a parking ticket. What's more those bullets aimed at the innocent puppy ricocheted and could have hit innocent people nearby, including a baby in a stroller.
As for the shooting in Hazel Crest, according to WLS-TV reports, the police department had no comment. They did issue the dog's owner, Chanette Weaver, a $50 citation for 'having an animal at large.' ...
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dogs; police; policedogs
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Yet again
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posted on
12/27/2012 4:46:30 PM PST
by
fulltlt
To: fulltlt
You shoot my dog for no god da**ed reason and you better watch your back for the rest of your life.
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posted on
12/27/2012 4:48:28 PM PST
by
RC one
(From My Cold Dead Hands.)
To: fulltlt
Muslims hate dogs. Is there a pattern?
3
posted on
12/27/2012 4:50:39 PM PST
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
To: fulltlt
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posted on
12/27/2012 4:54:07 PM PST
by
rawcatslyentist
("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
To: fulltlt
Note to self: These dogs didn’t have second amendment rights.
There but for the grace of God, and our second amendment rights, go us.
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posted on
12/27/2012 4:55:34 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(How about a waiting period for putting crazies out on the streets, say a million years or so.)
But it was for the cheeruns!
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posted on
12/27/2012 4:57:50 PM PST
by
rawcatslyentist
("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
To: fulltlt
If you don’t want your dogs shot quit complaining and pass a city ordinance.
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posted on
12/27/2012 4:59:32 PM PST
by
donna
(Pray for revival.)
To: RC one
I’m torn on this one. On one hand I feel exactly like you do. If you shoot my dog, well, you’ve pretty much made a life decision.
On the other hand, I’ve been to Hazel Crest.
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posted on
12/27/2012 5:03:48 PM PST
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: fulltlt
Over the past years, the friendly neighborhood cops in America have been morphing into jack-booted thugs.
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posted on
12/27/2012 5:04:32 PM PST
by
AlexW
To: DoughtyOne
We need effective ‘Police Control’
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posted on
12/27/2012 5:09:13 PM PST
by
STD
(“Cogito, ergo armatum sum)
To: DoughtyOne
We need effective ‘Police Control’
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posted on
12/27/2012 5:09:13 PM PST
by
STD
(“Cogito, ergo armatum sum)
To: DoughtyOne
We need effective ‘Police Control’
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posted on
12/27/2012 5:09:13 PM PST
by
STD
(“Cogito, ergo armatum sum)
To: DoughtyOne
We need effective ‘Police Control’
13
posted on
12/27/2012 5:09:13 PM PST
by
STD
(“Cogito, ergo armatum sum)
To: DoughtyOne
We need effective ‘Police Control’
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posted on
12/27/2012 5:09:13 PM PST
by
STD
(“Cogito, ergo armatum sum)
To: donna
If you don’t want your dogs shot quit complaining and pass a city ordinance.
What would this ordinance say? Not sure what you can do when these cops just claim that they were threatened, and they're backed by their department.
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posted on
12/27/2012 5:09:13 PM PST
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: DoughtyOne
We need effective ‘Police Control’
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posted on
12/27/2012 5:09:22 PM PST
by
STD
(“Cogito, ergo armatum sum)
To: DoughtyOne
We need effective ‘Police Control’
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posted on
12/27/2012 5:09:30 PM PST
by
STD
(“Cogito, ergo armatum sum)
To: fulltlt
When the only tool in your toolbox is a hammer, you treat everything you encounter like a nail.
It is past time to take the guns from the cops!
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posted on
12/27/2012 5:12:20 PM PST
by
wrench
To: fulltlt
The cops are practicing for when they get the OK to start shooting gun owners.
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posted on
12/27/2012 5:19:33 PM PST
by
aomagrat
(Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
To: STD
We need effective ‘Police Control’ What have you done to initiate it?
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posted on
12/27/2012 5:19:53 PM PST
by
Alaska Wolf
(Carry a Gun, It's a Lighter Burden Than Regret)
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