[SandRat]

[SandRat]

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[AbolishCSEU]

Lovely loyal dog! RIP! Velarde-Loureiro. . . hmmm that’s IRISH isn’t it? /s Smells like illegal alien/Obama’s son/Holder’s people to me!

[hoosierham]

g’s handler How many police turn out to honor citizens’ dogs shot down in their own home or yard by trigger-happy cops?

I can certainly understand the police dog handler would grieve for his dog,and also other officers who knew the handler, but 200 officers at a dog’s memorial just because it was a police dog ?

[ZX12R]

and did his job by taking a bullet first rather than allow other officers to get hurt that night.

He was doing what they trained him to do. I doubt he had the officer's safety in mind. In fact, if Ivan would've had his druthers, I'm sure he'd have rather lived his life with a family that had a really big back yard and lots of squirrels.

[Carthego delenda est]

It must have been a pretty bad gun shot. Tucson has/had some excellent trauma vets. Years ago I brought one of my dogs who had been shot in the face to one of these vets and he put my dog back together beyond all my hopes and expectations.

[Joe 6-pack]

WOOOF!

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[GOPJ]

When one of the ‘good guys’ falls we've lost a hero - nice to see Ivan was appreciated.

If the carjacker had died there probably wouldn't be three people who cared beyond his mother...

[Mears]

I’m glad they got the b****** that shot him.

R.I.P. Ivan.

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[SandRat]

After the service, 9-year-old Madison Fenoglio, the officer’s daughter, talked about the morning moments with Ivan that she misses most.

“I would wake up to Ivan licking my face and his paw on my shoulder,” said the elementary school student.

Madison walked up to the Memorial Plaza, looked at an image of Ivan on the wooden urn and said: “God bless you because what you did was very brave.”

[Altariel]

How many of them honor “slain family member Fido”?

If their dogs are to be recognized by the law as being equal to a man; our dogs should be so regarded.

Either that, or let’s drop the nonsense that a trained police dog is the equivalent of a LEO.