Posted on 05/25/2013 9:31:15 PM PDT by Altariel
On a chilly night in late February in Fishers, Ind., Patricia McConnell was taking her daughter’s 7-year-old, 20-pound terrier mix, Reese, out for a midnight potty.
Reese was harnessed and on a retractable leash, but as she bounded ahead around a corner, the dog saw a neighbor and started to bark. Unfortunately, this neighbor was Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal William “Buzz” Brown. Reese was able to bark only two times before the deputy shot the leashed dog twice.
Brown, who says he felt threatened, was two feet away from the dog when he thought she might attack him. Amazingly, Reese survived. However, because she was shot at such a close range, Reese’s front left leg and shoulder had to be removed, and her back left leg was left shattered. The vet bills reached $10,000.
Patricia McConnell said the shooting was so unexpected that she feared that if she said anything, the officer would fire at her as well. Her daughter, Deborah Twitty, told Fox59 that they live in fear of their neighbor. “I’m afraid he’s going to retaliate,” she said of the deputy.
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If it was dark, and the leash was long, the cop had no way to know dog was loose or not. Why would he risk being bitten by a dog? I was bitten by a dog and had to undergo 21 anti-rabies painful shots, besides the wounds inflicted by the dog.
The cop was justified IMO.
so they can earn their dog shooter merit badge???
I know one religious group/political movement that no likey the puppies...
Any large or medium sized dog must be on a SHORT leash all the time. The public areas such as streets are not dog parks.
Because they can.
What is it about dogs that makes them attack cops?
And I would bet the dog walker had no pooper scooper with him/her, no flash light, no bag to collect the dog doo-doo. I see too many uncouth persons walking dogs like that and leave dog-doo-doo every where. How disgusting, uncivilized, inconsiderate and boorish.
Sounds like you just don’t like dogs. Too bad for you.
If our public servants the LE, didn't have to engage in a DRUG WAR against CITIZENS, they would feel much more relaxed. As prohibition stands half the population has a target drawn on their backs.
Prohibitions red headed step child is just about to become full grown.
Now our local LEs are in a DRUG WAR with CARTELS, and it is growing more WAR LIKE every day!
They have a really tough job. I don't want to do it. Somebody has to though. Why not make their life easier and lighten their burden? Stop the persecution of Citizens, and we'll ALL back you against the cartels!
You can’t tell if a dog is leashed or not from *two* feet away?
make sure they’re not all being shipped to the White House kitchen?
So... let’s say a cop or someone else kills my leashed dog... I’m going to feel threatened. Does that give me the justification to pull my gun and shoot the person that shot my dog?
If cops feel that threatened by a dog, I suggest they find another line of work that won’t put them in the area of dogs at all.
Of course, the government employee was clearly righteous and noble in shooting a leashed dog, while the mundane private citizen clearly is a person worthy of all manner of loathing and ridicule.....
Or so every totalitarian dictator throughout history would love you to think.
Not at mid-night....it is usually pitch dark!!
So police(or anyone for that manner)may shoot any dog if they ‘feel’ threatened? Really? No pepper spray(ala postmen) just lead? If any armed police officer is that afraid for their safety they should be in another line of work.
Shoot them all!!
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