Posted on 12/08/2009 3:31:18 PM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour
“To blame this dog owner/law abiding citizen for having her dog shot at and herself wounded shows a brain that is in sore need of a transplant(that would be yours).”
I really should have used a sarcasm tag about the plaintiff being injured. My apologies.
To believe these dogs, owned by a woman who needs the help of police to remove her own son from her house, only barked, after reading this short article quoting the “suit”, shows brains that I might consider rabid. The comments that stem from this kind of thinking don’t seem as stupid as they do mad.
I agree, the cop was reckless.
Possibly way out of line, if you can believe what the “suit” says.
But, definitely reckless.
‘it states, and i quote [from the “suit” in the article]* “Williams discharged his official firearm twice in the direction of the dog.” ‘
If the lawyer’s suit proves to be the truth, I agree.
*Maybe I’ve seen too many enhanced statements from lawyers to take them at their word. The same could be said for the words of reporters in articles.
The time I’ve spent with the chronically homeless, alcoholics, drug addicts, etc. has jaded me to the way stories like this go down. The people that get the kind of attention from the police this lady needs have great difficulty with taking responsibility for their situations. And yes, I’ve seen most of them let their dogs be a real problem. No discipline.
There is a lot more to this story than the article covers.
Calling people nazis is NOT a way to get your point across unless you want us to think you are a loon.
If you call the cops to your home, take care of your damn dog! Put it in a room, lock it up, put a leash on it.
Unless the police are serving a no-knock warrant, most of these dogs shooting could have probably been avoided if the owner woke up and thought about how their dog would react to an unknown cop coming into an already volatile situation.
Plenty of blame to go around.
I absolutely agree with you that there are definitely two sides to every story, but I am seriously not getting this whole thing with cops and shooting dogs. This is not exactly an isolated incident, you know?
But we were taught "Do not shoot the dog!" in the academy except when the dog is absolutely about to cause you or someone else a physical injury.
I do think a lot of the cops we read articles about are a tad quick on the draw. That being said, we only read about those kind of cops. You never read an article about the thousands of cops who interact daily with dogs and do not pull the trigger. So let's keep it in perspective.
On an unrelated note, I'm going to FRmail you.
Love it.
I’m gonna steal that one.
Definitely.
I’m reminded of several situations where the cops were called in to “help” in family situations. One, where a deaf and developmentally-disabled guy was wielding a RAKE in Detroit, and another where a family member was freaking out in the kitchen.
I both cases, the family met the cops and explained the situation. In both situations, the cop charged in and killed the guy. They called the family for help and the cop escalates the situation through confrontation, resulting in a shooting.
“It seems to be a lot of dog shootings by cops lately. Never use to be that way”
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It may be that there is more reporting of dogs being shot, it may be that there are more people and dogs as the population grows, who knows. “It seems...” does not make a case. If I was a cop and a dog was attacking me, I would probably not be bitten as in fact I would be expecting an attack. The PD should have policy the officers are trained by for just such incidents (taser, pepper spray, bean bag shotgun, or lethal gunfire, whatever). If this particular PD does not, you can bet they soon will have such policy.
We had a case here in N. AZ where a man was shot because he would not call off his dogs. The shooter was convicted and sent to the big house but was later released on appeal when he was found to have acted in self defense. I would have acted the same is his situation. People’s dogs can be weapons and should be handled with similar precautions as firearms. I usually keep large Akitas myself and I know good and well I don’t want someone’s big dog threatening me, so as much as it is up to me, they can’t get into a situation where someone is threatened.
Don’t cops have pets as kids?
OK on the nazi thing.
Your posts, and the posts of many others on this thread make it clear to me that your thinking I am a loon is not worth being upset over.
I’ll agree that people should be doing that, however if you’re calling the cops there’s probably other things going on that might be distracting you from paying attention to your animals.
I just can’t imagine actually pulling my gun out as a CCW and shooting an animal running towards me unless it was a cougar or a wolf or something.
I carry pepper spray mostly for dogs, and the cops have that option too.
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