Where is the ASPCA ?
Do you need to make a donation to the Police Athletic League and get a Please Don’t shoot any dogs on this premises sticker for your windows and doors?
What a sad state we as a nation are in, no one is safe. Even the home security system, the dog.
It’s all part of the “Blue Code.” Several years ago, it was a common practice for rookie cops assigned to a rough neighborhood to shoot a dog on the street. First thing. First day. With witnesses. That sent the message to not screw with the new cop.
The message has not changed. The intended audience has.
I totally agree. Police are too quick to shoot dogs. Now, what can we do about it?
It’s time for a “Willy Pete’s law”.
That’s right! Stop shootin our dogs everytime we turn around. And no, that does not instantly mean it’s Open Season on our Cats & Rats & Unicorns!
Yes! Stop shooting our Dogs! No, that does not mean it’s now Open Season on Cats & Rats & Unicorns.
Apparently the officer just wanted to shoot something. I cannot think of any other reason.
This propensity should be considered the consequence of a mental issue making that officer unfit to patrol let alone be allowed a weapon.
If a dog charges you in a confined area, you don’t really have much time to draw a weapon, do you? If the dog meant you harm, you’d have some bite or claw marks to prove it.
seems pretty clear
and yet another doughnut muncher earns their dog shooter merit badge...
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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.
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.
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?
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?