"Don's shoot, bra! I promise I won't use the N-word again!"
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.
Welcome to the USSA.
You actually believe that?
Yes. And if they don’t, fine, victims keep getting compensated from the public purse. Works for me.
Gonna be a lawsuit
Agree.......
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.
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.
Yep, all too true.
A picture is worth a thousand words, and that’s a lot of pictures.
I’d like to circulate them.
Who gets the credit?
Agreed. There will be some dead LEO’s if they do this to my dog.
Spot on. Well said.
Good job, boys.
“Belgian shepard
Not a Pit...no need to shoot it.”
You know as much about dogs as these cops do.
"Don's shoot, bra! I promise I won't use the N-word again!"
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.
“How in the world did we allow America to get to this condition?”
It started when women were given the right to vote. :>)
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.
Yeah, you can trust a dog.
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