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.
I guess that if dogs are going around serving warrants, and taking away the work of the Troopers, then they deserve to be shot. Good jobs are hard to find. Dogs should stick to their own business of guarding their masters, not serving warrants.
There is no compensation or “apology” that could ever make up for the illegal intrusion of property and killing one of my best friends in the world.
While I have the utmost respect for LEO, there are a few too many trigger happy cops out there. THANK GOD my municipality’s LEO are **cool**.
Rumor has it in PA that if you can’t get on with a municipality, you try to be a county cop. If that doesn’t work, you try being a State Trooper. Based on what I know about Troopers assigned to “state” enforcement of things, intelligence isn’t #1 on the criteria.
In fact, “my best friend” has more intelligence than what I’ve experienced.
While you’re at it, you might was well design one for the LEO that decided to shoot up the neighbors yard and kill the family dog. “I was really stupid” would probably suffice.
STUPIDITY AWARD WINNERS EXTRODINAIRE
“It’s a brave new world out there Jethro.”
And you’re falling prey to it. Your bureaucratic masters want you to just sit down and shut up, and just move and speak when they tell you to. You seem ready for Hillaryland.
“We don’t got nothing,” Dill said.
You have bad grammar.
Let the dog’s owner shoot and kill the trooper. Then we’ll call it even.
You think your cops are your friends.
WRONG.
Any cop messes with my dogs, dies. I fully expect I’ll die too. But that’s the deal.
So? It’s just a dog. We have bigger problems.
Boy, the paramilitary police forces just can’t seem to shoot enough dogs, can they?
“To Protect and Serve” - gestapo criminal aholes....
I don't say that lightly....I passed "Police Standards" years ago, and they seem to ignore its precautions.
The job attracts a LOT of control freaks and they are constantly degrading an honorable profession in the eyes of the public and are making the truly dedicated law enforcement officers (and there are still many..against all odds) look bad.
Oh look! More out of control cops! Who would have thunk!
You guys aren’t making many new friend out there.
Dream on! The thought of getting Hillary and Shaky Jake Reno back in power seems to be bringing out the bloodlust among the worst of the needledick jackboots, drooling for the chance to recreate the fires of Waco in every city on the map.
The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.
The Keystone Kops
I bet they were in full combat gear wearing masks and ninja clothing. They were all testosteroned up and all for someone wanted on a minor charge.
Now what if it had been the homeowner who surprised them and not the dog? The small-ville ninja’s would still probably say the owner bit them.. or maybe throw down a “throw down” gun.
LEO’s need to stop dressing up as combat troops unless they want to go to Iraq. This is another case of them getting all into their role as troops and forgetting (ignoring) who they serve and are accountable to.
I have a dog too, but I know the difference between a dog and a human.
Bet that’s why they call you brilliant.
I hope they get a very large settlement and the motherf-ing a-hole who shot the dog gets fired.
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