Cop took just 3 seconds to shoot dog

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Thursday, January 9, 2003

[Nuke'm Glowing]

"You want to live in a world where law enforcement never makes any mistakes. Me too; in fact, I will, one day."

So if law enforcement makes "a mistake" and blows your head off, do you or don't you want us to come to your defence?

[Gargantua]

"...until the dog attacked the human. Too bad. Bad dog! "

Dan, "Let your 'yes' be yes, and your 'no' be no." "Thou shalt not bear false witness."

The dog didn't attack a human. For you to state that he did is a lie. You should not lie, as God's Holy Word tells you not to.

Either do not lie, or change your login from that deceptive acronym for "biblical Christian." n'Kay?

[PleaseNoMore]

Where did the dog attack this cop? I mean, come on, the video is plain for everyone to see. There was no attack. Please watch the video or watch it again and report the time on the video that shows where this dog was "attacking".

[exmarine]

This is, as I have said before, a trajedy... officers attempting to do their duty according to procedure and doing it into which an uncontrollable, random element was thrown: the dog.

' Yeah, and the smirking dog-killer seems to contradict your conclusion. There was MALICE aforethought behind this shooting. Why didn't the stupid idiots question the family before terrorizing them? What grounds were there for this type of treatment? NONE WHATSOEVER. The idiot cops took the word of some passerby who concluded there must have been a robbery, but why on earth would a robber throw money out the window? These cops were at the very least STUPID, and at MOST evil. The dog-killer certainly was not sorry for his deed as his smirk will attest! That jerk should be fired just for his attitude.

[exmarine]

By the way, Dan, it is not up to YOU to forgive that cops. That is up to the family and God. The cops didn't terrorize you so I could give a squat about your forgiveness of the cops.

[js1138]

Drug dealers often train their dogs to attack and kill, so there was no way for the cop to know what he was facing. Hindsight is wonderful. But if it had been my dog, I would have cried and then comforted the cop and told him not to feel guilty.

Go back and read the whole article. There was no reason for the dog to escape from the car. And why was the family being arrested, anyway?

[Nuke'm Glowing]

Thanks for the link as I haven't had time to research it...Here's the email I sent:

"To the honorable Mayor or whoever is in charge,

Instead of allowing your "officers" to make the mistake of shooting a family pet, why don't you build a gulag, run the people down there and shoot and bury the bodies next time. I mean hell, shooting pet dogs and arresting innocent people while on video tape is just plain stupid. Do you honestly think Mao, Castro, Pol-Pot, Stalin and Hitler would keep such detailed records? Well, maybe they would. Enjoy your sadistic videos as I'll take the long way around your Algore butt kissing facist Gestapo state when travelling that way in the future. Sincerely, etc....

I can't wait to see the response....

[nina0113]

or a more clear-cut case of Barney Fife ineptitude and stupidity

I resent that on behalf of Barney Fife. He only had one bullet, and he wasn't allowed to carry it.

The cops were clearly in the wrong. Why didn't they close the door? They had seen the dogs for themselves, they'd been asked twice. Any dog owner knows that a dog in a car, wants to get out of the car. (A dog OUT of a car, wants to get IN.)

Out of four guys, not one has a dog?

And what is going on at Police Academy, that they don't teach cops the difference between a dog WAGGING ITS TAIL and a dog attacking?

Irrelevant, but full disclosure:
I lived in Cookeville a few years as a child (Dad taught at Tech) & returned to visit my grandparents frequently until 1970.

[The KG9 Kid]

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[philomath]

Remind me to stay out of Tennessee

aw, come on. a little jaunt to far eastern tennessee won't hurt, especially if mr happy trigger is roadside with shopping cart and "will behave for food" sign. we're working on it....

[exmarine]

The only way to explain BibChr inexplicable defense of this heinous crime is that he is related to a cop! If I werer this family, I WOULD NEVER LET THIS REST UNTIL JUSTICE IS SERVED. Forgiveness and justice are two different things.

[Mat_Helm]

These blithering idiot Tennessee LEO's had no business displaying that much firepower for stopping an uncorroburated or unsubstantiated story in the first place. They drew weapons to fast not knowing if anybody in the vehicle was armed or dangerous and they presumed to much. There was no credible witness, victem, or crime event. It must have been a slow week for these rambo types who finaly had a chance to be on COPS and instead showed what blithering idiots they are. If this is the state of LEO and practice in America than it has all gone terribly wrong and I hope people begin to sue the crap out them.

[keri]

but popping a dog that is a potential attacker, what's the big deal?

The big deal is the dog wasn't attacking. Your attitude that an innocent family pet can be "popped" for nothing, and is no "big deal" if it *is* a pitbull dog, is sick.

Cops shouldn't shoot innocent dogs, even if it is a "pitbull." Your attitude seems to imply as long as the cops are just guilty of shooting innocent dogs that "appear" to be a pitbull, everything is peachy. Rationality is apparently dead, where you live.

[from occupied ga]

. He and they would be the first to resist such an order – physically if necessary.

BS and you know it. Talk is cheap, and I don't doubt that the words were said, but I have yet to hear of any cop anywhere in the USA failing to enforce gun laws. When NYC unconstitutionally confiscated citizens' semi-autos, no cop refused to do it. Did you not hear that all of the tips that were phones in to the Montgomery County PD during the sniper episode will now be used for gun confiscation? The cops in COnnecticut who found some guys gun collection propmtly confiscated it and arrested him - just for having what they thought were too many guns.

...Only the most tyrannical and power-crazed members of law enforcement could possibly object to that....

Well that's an awful large fraction of them and getting larger every day.

It is THEY, after all, who are most likely to catch that bullet

This is true, if things continue as they are with LEOs literally getting away with murder, then the mine in the favorite radar spot, the bullets in the ambush, etc. aren't going to ask whether the cop is really a good cop or one of the many SD einsatztroopers that make up US law enforcement today.

[exmarine]

I agree except I would sue that town until they could no longer afford to pay cops! Bankrupt the city unless they fire the cops.

[exmarine]

Yeah, the cops would love it if they were the only ones left with firearms - then the TERROR could really commence! Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The arrogance of today's cops make me want to puke. No such person will ever be my friend.

[B Knotts]

It's sad, because a lot of cops are good people who are trying to do the right thing. But guys like this hot dog are giving the rest of the police a bad name.

[Double Tap]

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[Dimensio]

But their blasted dog attacked a cop.

If what that dog did is 'attacking', then I've been mauled to death by my cat more than once.

[from occupied ga]

...I would sue that town until they could no longer afford to pay cops! Bankrupt the city unless they fire the cops

The won't work. It isn't the cops or the bureaucrats who will pay. It is the taxpayers. Get a $30,000,000 judgement, then don't take it out of the hides of the a$$hole thugs who did this - just stick it to the taxpayers.

Happened rat cheer in GA about 10 years ago. There was a big "drug raid" several days before election day with about 60 LEOs against a businessman who was running for county comissioner. Done on the information of "anonomyous informants" Just his incumbent opposition doing its thing with the full cooperation of the Gwinnett County police force. Well he lost the election and took the whole lot to court and got a huge judgement against them. Of course they appealed, but they lost that too. Not one penny came fom any of the law enforcement goons who carried out the raids. Every cent (about $30,000,000 as I remember) came from the taxpayers' pockets. The count spoksperson said that the money didn't come from tax revenues, but had been set aside earlier. This complete lie was unchallenged by the local liberal media, and most of my moronic fellow Georgians because they were too dishonest (in the case of the media) or too dumb (my fellowcitizens) to realize that a government has no income other than what it forcibly seizes from its citizens.