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Sad story here. Sucks that the cops have the right to do this to a dog that is just doing his loyal dog duty:-(
http://fox5sandiego.com/2014/06/26/video-owner-confronts-cops-after-dog…
http://fox5sandiego.com/2014/06/26/video-owner-confronts-cops-after-dog…
It all comes back to the Stanford Prison experiments... people fall into whatever roll they believe their situation warrants. Good people become egomaniacs in positions of authority. Many pigs are great people when they take of their badge and gun, but it's definitely no excuse.
Dude will get paid.
Taxpayers will suffer for ignorant cop,s decision.
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http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020398702_rosiesettlementxml.ht…
Des Moines to pay $51,000 over fatal shooting of dog
A couple whose Newfoundland, Rosie, was shot and killed by Des Moines police in November 2010 will be awarded at least $51,000 in a settlement reached late last month.
Back on Mototalk circa 2005 I had a username that some might recognize, but none of my usernames since then would stand out in anyone's memory.
What the fuck is he doing in his backyard.
And how hard is it to walk backwards saying nice dog.
Seriously. Just whip your gun out and shoot it, what a cunt.
If it was me, they would have had the crime scene forensic team there that cleans up murder blood taking care of the clean up and buried him at the most expensive pet cemetery. To leave him in his yard with his dead pet blown in bits and pieces was just wrong.
Doesn't that make it OK to shoot someone else's pet?
This situation puts the police in a tough spot...if they search every yard and end up killing a dog, they are wrong...if they don't search every yard in the neighborhood, and don't find the kid, then they are wrong.
In this case, the child was found (and okay), and a dog was killed...so it wasn't good for the cop.
Pit Row
Human life is far more valuable than ANY animals life.
I have never met or seen a police officer that didn't carry mace/pepper spray.
Hind-sight shows that wasn't the case...but in the moment, the cop didn't know that. He was trying to find a missing child. Like I said, I don't agree that he killed the dog, there were a million ways to prevent that. But I can also see that in that moment, from his perspective, how he could feel it was justified. (That's my point.)
What if he had killed the dog and then found the child held in the back yard by the owner? Then what? He'd be a hero and neither the dog, nor the dog's owner no longer gets any sympathy-from anyone-because the owner would be a child kidnapping d-bag. Yes, hind-sight is 20/20, but again...don't let your 20/20 hind sight vision cloud your perspective on what it was like in that moment.
And YOU don't have the right to enter your neighbors yard uninvited-for any reason-, let alone kill their dog because you aren't a cop. But Cops do have the right, under circumstances like this, to enter private property, and to kill dogs when they feel threatened. You can't do that, because you aren't a cop. But whether you like it or not, a cop can.
How do you know all the dog was doing was barking and growling? What if the dog was barking and growling AND lunging/aggressively approaching the cop? YOU DON'T KNOW...all I'm trying to get you to do is stop arm chair quarterbacking the situation without knowing all the facts.
Its sad the dog was killed...but if it was my child missing and I found out a cop didn't completely search a backyard because of some dog...I'd go kill the dog myself and search the back yard. People are more important than animals, way more important.
You are making a very strange dichotomy here. The situation isn't adequately search for kid and kill dog vs. inadequately search for kid and not kill dog. The officer could have done a thorough search without killing the dog just as easily (probably easier).
Like I said before this is no different than what mail men encounter on a daily basis since the dawn of the time (or whenever mail began being delivered house to house). I can guarantee you it would be next to impossible to get a Weimaraner to bite someone in that situation, 99.99% of dogs do not behave that way. If it were to bite (and that is a major if) it would hardly do any damage. There literally would have been dozens of other options the cop could have done instead of shooting the dog. A person who thought the best option was to shoot the dog in that situation is not even remotely mentally/emotionally qualified to be a police officer. The cop was either unreasonably angry or unreasonably scared. Neither is a acceptable trait for a police officer. It was a completely bizarre reaction that the tax payers are going to have to pay for.
How do you know the cop could have adequately searched the yard without killing the dog? Were you there? NO...so you are arm chair quarterbacking.
And you can't guarantee anything about what that particular dog would and wouldn't do. You don't know anything about the dog other than its breed. Again, you are arm chair quarterbacking.
You don't know anything about the cop, but yet are now qualified to do a psycho-analysis on him. Again, you are armchair quarterbacking.
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