And here we go…, we see if this helps Irish. (sigh).
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KC
I am not mocking the situation… A dog who had done nothing wrong, and was protecting his house was killed… I feel sad for the dog, what in the world is wrong with saying that I feel bad for the dog???
B
If officers are responding to a BURGLARY IN PROGRESS, a house dog will probably eat bullets in order for the officers/swat to not get distracted from saving HUMAN LIVES.
Even if the officers/swat were well within their right to neutralize the dog(s), the public sees the results out of context and there’s where the animosity stems from.
There’s no happy ending.
Why in the f*ck do these threads have to go downhill in less than two pages? I am tempted to lock it right now except that I’ll be called a police fanboy and jack-booted thug.
It’s terrible that the dog was shot, but none of us were there and we don’t know what transpired. Sometimes in life shitty things happen.
I really think that someone owes Buck an apology for insinuating that he was making light of the situation. He expressed a simple thought and then gets attacked.
I am almost inclined to recommend that no such police stories be allowed because they go down hill in a hurry and nothing good seems to come of it.
This is a one dimensional approach. There are numerous other circumstances to consider for very practical and logical reasons.
If the police start equating elderly, borderline incapacitated barking dogs as threats to their entry team then they need to be replaced with capable individuals.
Attacked? I did not attack him, IG.
He did indeed mock the shooting and under the specific circumstances it was simply uncalled for. Maybe it was a defensive reaction to other threads that have been posted before, I don’t know.
But no one can look at that hobbling dog and say it needed to be shot, especially a highly trained individual.
Sorry for my interference, I will disappear from this discussion.
It just may be standard practice to put down any non-human creature in the immediate area of operation to allow officers to focus on quickly getting innocents out of harms way. Usually stuff like this (house animals getting killed) happens when the call states a crime may still be in progress and can turn violent against the caller (home owner, etc) and obviously the police.
in any case, refer to post number 17.
It would be interesting to see an interview of the cop that shot the dog. Odd that the news report didn’t have any details from the police report, that would help answer a lot of questions.
Explain to me how he “mocked” it. He simply said poor doggie. What was he supposed to do? Write a 5 page essay on why it should or shouldn’t have happened and then state he felt sorry for it?
His response was simple and you chose to believe that he was mocking the situation.
Dogs seem totally adorable on video happily playing with their owners.
But the dog can’t tell a cop from any other stranger who’s in your house (on the dog and it’s master’s turf), and the dog has no way of knowing the stranger has arrived with good intentions. Even an injured dog from a relatively “cute” breed can seem pretty badass when it feels totally threatened.
As another post mentioned, the officers probably already had their firearms out and in hand upon encountering the dog, who may very well have done the standard thing that dogs do where it stands and growls at you in a threatening manner in an attempt to make you go away (and in standing, rather than walking, not making it apparent that the dog was lame).
As far as alternate methods of force, trying to battle a dog with an ASP is stupid, a taser may very well be as lethal as a 9mm (dogs are smaller than humans and thus have a lower tolerance for electrical force) and spray is notoriously inconsistent results-wise.
We don’t know what happened, but I can very easily envision a scenario where an officer could feel that the dog intended him bodily harm (especially if the officer was unfamiliar with typical dog behavior) and because of that, I’m inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt instead of MMQBing the hell out of this.
Any way it goes the dog was just doing it’s job, and it sucks that it got shot.
What else can you say?
this is true…
some folks seem to think that the cops are there to solve their idiot personal drama…
I am pretty sick of hearing news about cops shooting dogs. If the cops shoot an attacking pit bull at a drug house, that’s fine. But it now seems the norm for them to shoot family pets when the pets present no threat. If citizens went around and shot every dog that barked, the cops would be right over to arrest us.
Don’t call 911. It’s safer that way.
Seeing how this has already disolved into people openly insulting moderators, movign away from the specific incident in question, and generally turning this into a thread fit for TOS’s GD; I’m locking this thread. If anyone has an issue with it; either PM me or another mod/staff member.
And for those wondering; yes, this thread netted someone a 3 day break from the site.