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Troopers Shoot, Kill Fenced-In Dog Serving Warrant Next Door
NBC-10 ^ | 11/13/2007

Posted on 11/13/2007 6:20:23 PM PST by Malacoda

CHESTER TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- Pennsylvania State Police shot a family's fenced-in pet to death Tuesday.

Troopers later admitted they weren't supposed to be in that yard in the first place.

State troopers were in the neighborhood, trying to serve a warrant on someone. They sent a couple of extra troopers around to guard the back door. Those officers, however, cut through a neighbor's yard, and that's when they came across Sheeba, a very protective family dog, NBC 10's Tim Furlong reported.

"She was doing her job. That's what she does, she protects us," said DiQuan Dill said.

DiQuan and his five brothers and sisters got the bad news when they got home from school Tuesday that their Belgian shepard was killed in their back yard.

Their mom was there when it happened.

"I was in there laying down and, all of a sudden, I heard gunfire -- about five or six rounds," Denise Dill said.

But what disturbed the family most was that state police killed Sheeba.

"When I came to the door, they were actually next door, and I said, 'What's the matter? Who shot my dog?' And he was like, 'Your dog bit me.' I said, 'What are you doing in the yard?' And he said, 'We're looking for this guy over here.' I said, 'Why did you have to shoot the dog?' He said, 'She bit me.' I said, 'Why you didn't just get out of the yard?'"

Denise's fiancée was devastated, and she said the kids were even more upset.

"She was always happy. I don't know why they did that. She was always joyful, running around, everything," DiQuan said.

The bitten state trooper was recovering from puncture wounds to his hand.

A lieutenant at his barracks admitted the trooper should never have cut through the yard in the first place. He told NBC 10 the troopers never saw or heard the dog in the yard but that, either way, troopers are not supposed to cut through private property to serve out a warrant at another house.

"He obviously panicked, you know, and messed up," Dill said.

She got business cards from the troopers on scene, and she said one trooper apologized.

But an apology can't bring Sheeba back to the kids who grew up with her.

"We got dog food and everything, and we don't have anyone to give it to. We don't got nothing," Dill said.

State police said they do apologize and will compensate the family for their loss, Furlong reported. The man they came to get was taken into custody on pretty minor charges, Furlong said.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: badcopnodonut; banglist; beserkcop; donutwatch; leo; police; stupidcops; toserveandprotect
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To: Joe Brower

Welcome to the USSA.


121 posted on 11/14/2007 5:10:55 AM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Wolfie
Nonsense. The taxpayers gets hit hard enough in the wallet, they’ll make sure the assholes get booted off the force

You actually believe that?

122 posted on 11/14/2007 5:38:27 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government, Benito Guilinni a short man in search of a balcony)
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To: Jet Jaguar
But, at least the PD will think hard and heavy before doing this sort of thing again.

you aren't naive enough to actually believe that are you?
the parent is lucky to know that it even happened. if the cops had used the typical mp5 dog killing gun, the kids probably would've been the ones to find it swiss cheesed in the yard.
123 posted on 11/14/2007 5:43:45 AM PST by absolootezer0 (Only two products have come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. Coincidence? I think not.)
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To: from occupied ga

Yes. And if they don’t, fine, victims keep getting compensated from the public purse. Works for me.


124 posted on 11/14/2007 5:43:57 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: Malacoda

Gonna be a lawsuit


125 posted on 11/14/2007 5:44:52 AM PST by dennisw (Islam - "a transnational association of dangerous lunatics")
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To: appalachian_dweller

Agree.......


126 posted on 11/14/2007 5:48:11 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: Wolfie
Yes. And if they don’t, fine, victims keep getting compensated from the public purse.

The problem is that most people think our government is elected. It isn't. It is a self perpetuating oligarchy that is extremely resistent to voter influence. Look at the feds. There are 18 to 21 million federal employees (depending on whose estimate you use) How many are elected? 537. Civil service makes it almost impossible to get rid of goernment employees, and these are the petty bureaucrats (cops are just armed bureaucrats) that control our lives.

127 posted on 11/14/2007 6:06:33 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government, Benito Guilinni a short man in search of a balcony)
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To: from occupied ga

Government employees routinely are excused from the consequences of their stupidity and arrogance simply because they are government employees.The ancient doctrine of the king can do no wrong was based on the king also having all the power and authority.That idea should never have been allowed into government.When a person need fear no punishments for any action,that person is free to do anything.


128 posted on 11/14/2007 6:08:30 AM PST by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a creditcard?)
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To: hoosierham
Government employees routinely are excused from the consequences of their stupidity and arrogance simply because they are government employees ...

Yep, all too true.

129 posted on 11/14/2007 6:11:10 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government, Benito Guilinni a short man in search of a balcony)
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To: DCBryan1

A picture is worth a thousand words, and that’s a lot of pictures.

I’d like to circulate them.

Who gets the credit?


130 posted on 11/14/2007 6:11:44 AM PST by tsomer
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To: Ronin

Agreed. There will be some dead LEO’s if they do this to my dog.


131 posted on 11/14/2007 6:13:25 AM PST by EdReform (The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed *NRA*JPFO*SAF*GOA*SAS*RWVA)
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To: Viking2002

Spot on. Well said.


132 posted on 11/14/2007 6:15:10 AM PST by EdReform (The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed *NRA*JPFO*SAF*GOA*SAS*RWVA)
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To: Malacoda

Good job, boys.


133 posted on 11/14/2007 6:17:15 AM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: SergeiRachmaninov

“Belgian shepard

Not a Pit...no need to shoot it.”

You know as much about dogs as these cops do.


134 posted on 11/14/2007 6:19:56 AM PST by Varda
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To: Malacoda

"Don's shoot, bra! I promise I won't use the N-word again!"

135 posted on 11/14/2007 6:23:07 AM PST by ReignOfError
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To: MtnClimber

Perhaps I should have said “makes ONE want to go to their house and shoot their dog”. That you couldn’t have argues with. Even so, I know what you’re saying. I was expressing my frustration at the cavalier manner in which they seem to place themselves above those they claim to serve.


136 posted on 11/14/2007 6:33:35 AM PST by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Ronin

“How in the world did we allow America to get to this condition?”

It started when women were given the right to vote. :>)


137 posted on 11/14/2007 6:40:26 AM PST by antisocial (Texas SCV - Deo Vindice)
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To: Squantos

The most troublesome part of this story is that these cops have the means and the ‘authority’ to use lethal force, yet they don’t even know who’s yard they’re in.


138 posted on 11/14/2007 6:43:32 AM PST by appalachian_dweller (Live each day as if it's your last.....it might be.)
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To: tsomer
Just a quick question. What part of no profanity do you not understand?
139 posted on 11/14/2007 6:52:29 AM PST by carton253 (And if that time does come, then draw your swords and throw away the scabbards.)
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To: Brilliant
I know the difference between a dog and a human.

Yeah, you can trust a dog.

140 posted on 11/14/2007 6:59:04 AM PST by Eaker (If illegal immigrants were so great for an economy; Mexico would be building a wall to keep them in)
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