and yet another doughnut muncher earns their dog shooter merit badge...
dogshoter2 
dogshooter3
Posted on 08/06/2014 2:36:58 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
The sheriff’s department in Prince Edward Co., Virginia, isn’t returning phone calls about Party. No great surprise. A deputy shot the dog in late June, killing it. The department issued a CYA press release, then dummied up—perhaps in the hope the whole thing would blow over.
No wonder: According to a news account, the deputy went to the home of Stephen Carwile to serve a paper in a non-criminal matter. The family wasn’t home. The department’s press release says the deputy “was charged by a vicious dog.” That would be Party—a Golden Retriever. We all know how vicious that breed is. The release says the dog “lunged at [the deputy] so he fired his weapon as required by training.”
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
and yet another doughnut muncher earns their dog shooter merit badge... dogshoter2 dogshooter3
We are “them.”
End prohibition! End the police state!
“It looked suspect to me,” said Teresa Graham, who watched the shooting unfold while stopped at a nearby traffic light. “I just don’t know why she had to shoot him like that — four times, when he’s trying to run away.”
“I don’t know why they were talking,” she said. “Then all of a sudden, (the officer) yelled something and she tried Tasing him, but missed. When the guy started to run away, (the officer) immediately threw the Taser down, pulled her gun out and shot.”
The man seemed to be running in slow motion — possibly drunkenly — as he attempted to flee, Graham said. That’s when the officer fired four shots, several of which appeared to hit the man, she added.
“I didn’t see anything in his hands,” Graham added. “I didn’t see him do anything physical or threatening. I’ve just never seen anything like that before in my life — a person just getting shot like that. It was just heartbreaking.”
http://thedailyworld.com/sections/newswire/northwest/panhandler-shot-injured-after-charging-tacoma-police-officer.html
In spite of these multiple eye-witness accounts of a bad shoot, the incident was whitewashed, and the officer is back on patrol without a single stain on her record.
Here's the whitewashed version:
"Cool said Saturday the man hit the officer in the arm with a pipe-like object when she asked him to move as he was panhandling about 3:15 p.m. near East 28th Street and East Portland Avenue. The officer tried to subdue the man with a Taser, and when that failed and he continued to attack, she fired, Cool said."
Read more here: http://blog.thenewstribune.com/crime/2013/07/01/no-change-in-condition-of-tacoma-panhandler-shot-by-officer/#storylink=cpy
Emphasis Added.
There has never been a resolution of the officer's shooting reported in the press. This poor guy was nuts, but was RUNNING away from the officer when she BACK SHOT HIM.
Heck, I don’t need a dojo for that, when it comes to a dog. Every dog that ever messed with me has gone scurrying after a swift kick to the crotch.
A pit bull isn’t a dog but rather a monster. They need to be shot in many situations...oh and the liberals out there that own them and rename them, ‘pitties’...that’s like the Cincinnati zoo calling their hyenas African painted dogs. Over last 2 months in Cincy 3 people have been killed by potties.
In the movies, someone who kills a dog is super bad!
Think of the evil dog catcher who was going to put a dog to deat in OUR GANG, AND of the Indians in HONDO. And that is just TWO off the top of my head.
Required by training?
Up next,I was only following orders.
We all know how that sick sh-t played out last time.
REQUIRED? Do we really need cops who are REQUIRED by their training to act in completely illogical ways? Do we need cops who obviously can't think their way out of a wet paper bag? Does the fool who wrote that release realize how incredibly incompetent and useless he makes the police department sound with that statement?
WE need 100,000 FEWER cops.
The increase in police has only led to an increase in citizens being victimized.
Universal constitutional carry and few police will be a quieter safer society in the end.
WE need 100,000 FEWER cops.
The increase in police has only led to an increase in citizens being victimized.
Universal constitutional carry and few police will be a quieter safer society in the end.
The trouble is that, with harder economic times, there are going to be more threatening wild dog packs, so “not killing dogs” is not an absolute. More appropriately, “not killing owned dogs that are not running free.”
Animal shelters are always barely afloat, even in good economic times, but it must be remembered that they are a convenience. In most large cities, animal shelters kill thousands of animals a year. Not really different than them being gunned down by cops.
Attention Officer, you shoot one of my springer spaniels, I will kill you. Any questions?
Too good!
If a dog is off a leash and not behind a fence I tend to give the benefit of doubt to the cop. Owners almost always claim that their dog is sweet and gentle. 49 years ago I was bitten by one of those gentle dogs. After a trip to the emergency room for a tetanus shot my brother went to the owner’s house to tell her to quarantine the dog to determine if it had rabies and the dog bit him. Both times the dog had growled and bared it’s teeth before biting and both times the woman had said ‘don’t hurt him he won’t bite’.
You can’t reason with an animal. If it is acts like it might attack I assume it’s going to.
The author of this article says you don’t hear about other professions getting bitten. To that I will just respond with an old saying: ‘Dog bites man isn’t news. Man bites dog is’.
Now if a cop shoots a dog inside a fenced in yard or the dog is retrained then that’s a different matter.
And I do like dogs. Just not aggressive unrestrained ones.
“he fired his weapon as required by training.”
Then the training is f***** up and needs to be changed. And everyone who signed off on it needs to be sued I to bankruptcy.
Way back in the Dark Ages, when this ol’ great granny was in school...
The local Constable wheeled into the school grounds and shot a stray dog right outside our windows.
Nothing new here.
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