Then we had guards admitting to such behavior.
Did some of those guys get jobs with Pittsburgh's police force? They'll hire just anybody these days ~ that city's on a death spiral.
I know a guy, he suffers from seizures. Jacka$$ brookline cop harrassed and arrested him and charged him with disorderly conduct because he found him passed out on the sidewalk after a seizure. AFTER the guy explained that he suffered from uncontrollable seizures several times a day.
Cop dragged him off to jail, they call the social services who of course confirmed the guys story.. they let him out of jail but to protect the cops a$$ because they knew he screwed up, they kept the charges on him. So the guy has had to go to court for basically having a seizure because the police cheif was more interested in protecting his newbie jacka$$ cop than he was in serving justice or doing his job.
I respect the law, but I don’t blindly accept their account of things.
This particular incident may be justified, just based on what has been reported in the media so far, it sure as hell doesn’t pass the first blush smell test.
You can’t sick a dog on a man, and then shoot him for defending himself.
If the guy pulled the gun first, then by all means sic the dog on him and shoot him. But you send a dog in at a guy in attack mode, and when he defends himself from the attacking animal and makes not move or threats toward any humans after the dog is down, and you shoot him.. that’s a problem.
Based on what I heard to date, I’m guessing more than one cop had a gun trained on the suspect before the dog was released. The suspect was ordered to show his hands.. he didn’t... they sent the dog in, he pulled out the gun and shot the charging dog, and when he did, one or more of the cops that already had him targeted pulled the trigger.
The investigation will happen, and I hope personally that the SBI or other organization outside of the Pittsburgh Police directly is involved. This may have been a clean shoot, it may not have been, but given the history of the whitewashing that has happened in the past here, I’d like to see an outside agency handle it.