Posted on 12/22/2014 8:55:23 AM PST by Snickering Hound
An officer for the Cleburne Police Department shown on video shooting and killing a dog in August was justified in taking that action, an independent investigator hired by the department found.
Officer Kevin Dupre was placed on paid administrative leave after video of the Aug. 10 shooting surfaced in October, according to NBC 5. City officials brought in Alan Patton, a retired police sergeant who did not serve in Cleburne, to conduct an independent investigation.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
From another article that’s more complete:
The investigator talked to numerous witnesses, agencies in Fort Worth and experts in Los Angeles. He also studied the video, slowing down and enhancing portions of the video to study the behavior of the dog. He also studied articles about animal conduct.
“The most notable thing [the investigator] pointed out was that the officer had several reports that the brown pit bull had snapped at people and that the brown pit bull had reports of getting out so he obviously was considered for the safety of the community while he was waiting on animal control to arrive at the scene,” Cain said. “[The officer] felt that it was uncomfortable for him to just go back to the station with the safety of children playing in the neighborhood at risk. So he went out in search of the dog.”
Cain said the dog is shown for less than 30 frames, less than a second.
“When you look at those two segments and you slow it down, you see a body position change of the brown pit bull. He takes an aggressive stance. Most notably in both of them you see his ears pin back,” he said. “Then in the second scene you see his front quarters get into an attack type position and you can tell that his mouth is open. Then he goes out of screen and that’s the time the officer says the dog was coming up.”
According to the investigator’s report, “Dupre reasonably believed that he needed to use lethal/deadly force in defense of his own life.”
And they wonder why we call it a police state!
“And they wonder why we call it a police state! “
Nonsense.
I think you’d better look up the definition of a police state.
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When I took the hunter safety course many (many) years ago in NYS the DEC guys told us that his was more intended for the feral dogs that were harassing deer. IO asked how you could tell the difference between feral and domestic. He replied that off the record if it was chasing a deer it would be coyote food.
The dog couldn’t breathe.
I agree. By their own actions cops have lost the benefit of the doubt from many Americans who traditionally supported them. I am not so cynical that I will not look at evidence, and now don’t believe Wilson did anything criminal, but my initial thought on the Brown shooting was that the cop got beat up and executed the guy for it. Four or Five years ago I would have immediately assumed the cop was in the right but too many recordings of bad behavior followed by “clearings” have changed my mind.
Two women calling police from their car because they are trapped, does support the cop killing a dog that needed killing.
Just like the left and the “gentle giant”, this ins’t the dog killing that I would choose as the one to make a stink over.
“Investigators explained that the officer was called to the scene at Lindsey Lane after two women complained about being trapped in their car by a pack of three snarling dogs. The officer said that one of the dogs became aggressive. That is what caused him to open fire on the pit bull.”
Years ago the lady next door’s ex husband moved in with her and brought his pit bull with him. Knowing their reputation I asked a friend of mine from Southern California, who was an Animal Control Officer, about this. He told me, from his experience, I had two choices. 1)Kill the pit bull. 2)Sell my house and move.
I did neither. After an attack on one of my pointers that resulted in no injury, an attack on another neighborhood dog that resulted in a trip to the vet and stiches, and two other dogs being killed, I sold my house and moved to the “I told ya so,” of my State Humane Officer friend.
Pit bull: The Canine of Peace.
well we don’t know that and so I will not judge them.
“an independent investigator hired by the department found.”
That term is a total oxy-moron. You see that the independent investigator knows that if he does not find in favor of the police than he will never get hired again. It very much taints the decision.
And I am not saying that this shooting was or was not justified. It well may have been. But I know that independent investigators are far from independent.
City officials brought in Alan Patton, a retired police sergeant who did not serve in Cleburne, to conduct an independent investigation.
Independent. OK.
"According to the Daily Mail, a police officer killed while responding to a domestic disturbance in a small eastern Pennsylvania borough had pointed a stun gun at two dogs before being shot, court records reveal.
Freemansburg police officer Robert Lasso had pointed at the attacking dogs when the homeowner pulled out a shotgun and fired the fatal blast on Thursday evening."
Maybe the cops should start building a better relationship with the peeps by stoping shootings of (almost all) dogs.
>> You and I are on the same sheet of music.
Make that (at least) three of us. Love your doggie? Control your doggie.
That’s what happened at Ruby Ridge.
It’s only on the sound track
“The stinking thing sounds like the occifer CALLED THE DOG OVER. Hey you dog that is threatening me. You aren’t close enough.”
If you knew how poorly most police shoot, you would undeerstand why an ossifer attempting to qualify for his Dog Shooter Badge would try to get a close up shot.
Having stated the above, if the dogs were forming an agressive pack, the owners are at fault.
Police can not honestly monitor police misconduct cases. That is one error that must be reformed. People don’t respect it for resolution in questionable police actions anymore.
100% agree.
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