Posted on 07/28/2014 11:08:42 AM PDT by Ken H
A six-year-old girl watched in horror as police gunned down her one-year-old dog as it stood in their front yard, her family has said.
The girl's mother, Nicole Echlin, said their shepherd-mix Apollo, whom they have had since he was a puppy, got out of their yard in Hometown near Chicago, Illinois on Friday afternoon.
After they chased him around the neighborhood, he returned to the yard and was standing on the lawn when police arrived and pulled out their guns, Echlin told the Chicago Tribune.
'He started showing his teeth - that's when the officer shot him,' Echlin, 27, said. 'I didn't know that was going to happen.'
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DITTOS
I’d better keep a close watch on my pugs. They could be mistaken for vicious pit bulls.
Be prepared to handle things on your own. Don’t ever call the cops for anything.
Gimme a break. There's not a drop of "pit bull" blood in that dog.
Crying pit bull is just carte blanche to shoot dogs.
People need to realize that the distance from shooting "pit bulls" to shooting people is a lot less than they think.
First they shoot aggressive pit bulls, then..
just pit bulls, then..
any breed that acts "aggressive", then..
any breed that looks "aggressive", then..
any breed that might be potentially "aggressive", then..
any breed that happens to be in the vicinity, then..
They start the same slippery slope with people. Except they are already shooting people with very little justification beyond the fact that they can do it.
Remember the "War on Drugs" in the beginning? Only the bad guys were having their rights assaulted, or so you thought. Now you can be pulled over because you have an out of state tag, have your car and possessions, including money, confiscated simply because a man in a uniform decides you have too much cash in your possession. Which he discovered after searching your car, with no justification and without your permission. And your redress? A corrupt court system that is rotten to the core.
We have a monster, out of control, and it needs to be firmly challenged at every level and in every questionable instance. Compromise? That's hitting you 5 times with a billy club instead of the 10 he wanted to do.
My little guy is all of 17 pounds, but he does like to bark at strangers on the street. Once he knows who's a regular and who is not, he stops barking when he sees you on the street.
I have no doubt that the time will come when even the dachshund falls victim to the "I felt threatened for my safety" excuse by today's police.
-PJ
Why were the cops called? A neighbor making a “nuisance dog” complaint maybe?
Why did the cops feel compelled to enter the family’s yard once the dog had returned? Why not Animal Control?
Did the cop(s) make some kind of gesture or movement the 1 year old dog felt threatened by?
Why didn’t the cops leave the yard or back away from the dog to see if its demeanor changed?
Was the presence of the cops enough for the dog to feel compelled to “protect” it’s territory and family?
Witness accounts state the dog made no threatening gestures...I’m sure this will be a tad different than the “official” police version of events.
Shooting a dog in front of a child for little reason other than the claim of “baring its teeth” is excessive in my opinion. Regardless of how little knowledge the officers may or not have about dogs.
I really tire of these kinds of stories because they clearly indicate an organization that has crossed the rubicon between rational and irrational. One that wields an immense of power, which is scary in its own right.
I couldn’t agree more with you, Zulu.
There’s a couple of doosh cops in Denver that have been brought up on animal cruelty charges for executing a defenseless dog.
Need more DA’s like that one.
BarbM, you’re wrong, wrong, wrong.
My policy also.
You can no longer rely on them to come down on the side of common sense.
Their default mode is total, instant, compliance.
Screw them.
One of them could be bleeding in the street and I wouldn’t lift a finger to help.
That's essentially the ultimate point of my brochure:
Stop, Drop, and Cower
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So shooting “just a dog” based on arbitrary or unilateral decisions in front of 6 year old girls is a necessary life’s lesson?
Count me out on that perspective...
I’ve never seen a cop de-escalate a situation
And a very fine brochure it is. From time to time I print out a few and leave them in random places for people to find.
Bump for later...
May possibly be an AK 47.
” The excerpt says nothing about the dog ‘coming at him’. The article quotes the girl’s mother as saying the dog was not moving when shot.
So where are you getting that? “
You also have to take the cop’s claim of bared teeth with a grain of salt. Simply put, like “He reached for his waist band”, it is an easy claim to make after screwing up.
You can’t trust a cop’s integrity anymore.
That is not a pit, it is an AKC-47.
So????
Is that the criteria for shooting other peoples family members?
Exactly. Because at age 6, her perspective and how to deal with this kind of thing is entirely in place and will not change at all as she becomes an adult. Everyone knows that.
Do I need a sarcasm tag?
I'd pay good money to watch you say that in front of the mother and her heartbroken girl.
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