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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I can appreciate that, since you just stepped in it.
Yes! If you feel threatened by the cop pointing his gun at you, you can fire back as self defense. But I would not try it if I were you. Cops win most gun fights. They get free bullets to practice and they practice a lot.
If the police are that scared of canines pity the poor letter carriers with NO guns at all............
Grow up please!
You are so right...I feel for the letter carriers. But it would be rare if the letter carriers were delivering mail at mid-night, like when this incident happened, in pitch dark.
It is not “pitch” dark in larger towns and/or cities, because of street lights, house lights, etc.
Moreover, if it was “pitch” dark, then the government employee shot foolishly, being entirely unaware of who was behind the target.
If it was not pitch dark, the government employee shot foolishly, capable of seeing the lead.
Personal responsibility doesn’t solely extend to dog owners.
I’m convinced that most cops shoot dogs simply because they can. They are a convenient target to blow off a little steam. I don’t think it has anything to do with real fear or concern most of the time; just a callous disregard for someone else’s property.
OK noob, you said you sided with the dog-shooting cop. He shot a, what was it? 20 pound terrier because it startled him?
I walk my 80 pound bulldog with him in a halter, on a stout leash. He never barks on his walks.
Here’s the deal I have with the world. If we’re in a place we have a right to be but he frightens you—if you don’t shoot him, I won’t shoot you.
Welcome to the real world, junior.
“The cop was justified IMO.”
If I felt threatened by the cop would it be OK for me to shoot him?
The problem is that not all police officers have the judgment and common sense that the job demands. This becomes disastrous when the local, state or federal government that arms, trains and deploys them instills the idea that all citizens are suspicious and 'officer safety' trumps rights and freedoms. We hear about it in large scale disasters like Waco and Ruby Ridge, but events like this idiot shooting a twenty pound dog on a leash are too common these days.
I don't hate police, and I've never personally had a bad experience with one. Where I live, however, they're now armed like the Marines and the Democrats in charge want them to have a monopoly on guns and force. I don't trust the police like I did growing up. Not because they're likely to be bad people, but because their bosses almost always are.
“Not because they’re likely to be bad people, but because their bosses almost always are. “
....and a number of Americans, including Freepers, will justify anything they do, because of their job title.
That is an attitude which *begs* for the corrupt to dominate an institution.
So are you saying that the police, upon hearing a threatening noise in the ‘pitch darkness’ of night, are free to fire away? I can’t do that and neither can you. What makes a police officer so special? Was any law being violated by the growling dog? And if it was ‘pitch dark’, an officer is free to fire away not knowing there could have been a human just behind that dog? There was NO physical harm done to anyone except to the dog which was doing what dogs do on occasion, make noise.
Just two cases that come to mind in the last few years: Husband saved a German Shepherd that had fallen through the ice, police, fire and rescue risked their own lives to save this dog. Granted, they were trained and this also acted as additional training.
Second a call came in where a psycho guy was beating up his girlfriend on a front porch, a knife was involved and a pit bull. When police and rescue arrived, it wasn't apparent what was going on as the dog, yes the notorious pit bull variety, was in the mix with the male and female. There were god-awful screaming noises. In the heat of the moment, one could see an officer going after the dog. The truth was the guy had been beating up the woman and the dog had come to her defense. The awful screaming noise was the dog being stabbed by the guy, as the woman tried to stop him. An officer disarmed the guy and the dog, I guess sensing the woman was being protected and scared, took off running. A police officer and my husband (with medical equipment) took off after the dog and caught up with him as he fell over three blocks away. They tried to patch up the dog as they would a human. When my husband got off duty, I noticed him coming in the door with his spare uniform on that he keeps at the station. (I could tell because the pants are getting a little tight!) I asked why he had changed, and he said he got something on the uniform. I said give it to me, I'll wash it right away. (We don't like some of the things he can be exposed to sitting around on his uniform.) He said no, he'd do it and he might need to just throw it out. He looked really sad. I told him he couldn't do normal laundry, how was he going to do stains? I grabbed the uniform out of the bag, covered in blood. The dogs blood. He had died in my husbands arms. The poor dog had horrible wounds and bled for three blocks before dropping. I don't think any person there would have shot the dog, the psycho guy is lucky he made it out of there as well as he did.
Did you write the above all by your little self, Einstein? It don't make no sense.
Maybe dogs don’t like entrophy12, they have a keen sense about weirdo’s and such.
The cop got to go home safe at the end of the shift. That’s the most important thing. /s
What I'd like even less, and I'm sure you'd agree, is if an off-duty policeman decided to put two rounds into my leashed dog I was walking because 'he felt threatened'. That's a little trigger-happy and absolutely an abuse of power and responsibility. The dog in the story weighed 20 pounds. My ten-month old son weighs more than that. If the story had the same facts, save for the shooter was simply a neighbor with a gun and not a government employee, do you think he'd get away with it?
I pray your dog, and mine, never encounter such a person during a nighttime walk or a drug warrant being served on a mistaken address. And I hope you'd agree that while a person who fails to clean up after his dog IS uncivilized, inconsiderate and uncouth; a policeman who abuses his power and has such poor judgment concerning the use of lethal force is something far more troubling.
that would be one dead marshall. mother effer had no right at all to shoot that dog. these are the kind of people you half-wish aren’t saved so they can burn forever for their unbelievable wickedness.
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