and yet i don't believe that cop that strung up his own Dog Partner and BEAT IT was ever charged with assaulting an officer...
Posted on 05/16/2009 4:00:46 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Ronald J. Chenette, convicted six months ago in the death of a police dog, knew he was going to prison for life well before Friday's sentencing hearing in Clark County Superior Court. Everyone else knew, too. Ronald J. Chenette, convicted six months ago in the death of a police dog, knew what was going to happen well before Friday's sentencing hearing in Clark County Superior Court. Everyone else knew, too. The sentence was dictated by a "three strikes" law that locks away felons for life after three violent crimes. The absence of suspense, then, maybe explains why nobody who didn't have to be at the hearing showed up, save for Chenette's parents and one other supporter. When Judge Roger Bennett expressed surprise that no officers showed up on behalf of Dakota, a 5-year-old German shepherd owned by the Vancouver Police Department, Deputy Prosecutor Scott Jackson shrugged.
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Not necessarily. The police not even bothering to show up for a felon who get’s a life sentence makes him even less in everyone’s eyes.
Do you get it, he gets life, and the cops do not even bother wasting their time on him. It is like a gross insult. Life for a human in a cell, and the cops don’t even bother their time to go to trial. He is not important enough.
“WHat crime? If the police had not sicked their dog on him, there wouldn’t be any dead dogs.”
That is one of the most incredibly stupid things I have ever read. If it had been a policeman that went up to get the guy and the criminal had shot the policeman would you say, “What crime? If the policeman had not gone up there there wouldn’t have been a dead cop?”
A cop is not a dog. And vice versa. Maybe you are not quite as brilliant as you imagine.
It does if the convict has prior history of violent crimes. While wait until the jerk actually kills somebody?
IF he hadn’t committed a crime, nobody would have sicked a dog on him.
>>Death penalty
Delivered by the police dog’s handler.
In a cage with no one to observe.
God has a special place in heaven for our pet companions. And a special place in hell for those who hurt them. And I will petition God to let me be a handler in that special place in hell to provide eternal justice.
OK, then. Tell me what special place god has for a dog that kills a dog?
What a crock.
>>OK, then. Tell me what special place god has for a dog that kills a dog?
Well, the owner of the killer dog will answer. The dog-killing dog will someday be at peace.
God is very smart and understands what passes for “motivation” in His creatures. The ones He has designated to be companions to His children are blessed and have a special place in His House.
The real crime was not even one of the ones listed, it was "felon in possession of a firearm", and for someone who is a felon, mentally retarded, and prone to drink (I will bet it wasn't just a couple of beers) life is an appropriate sentence.
Lets all understand this -- the guy likes to get loaded and play with guns. Sooner or later someone is going to get shot. Taking him off the street is the right thing to do.
I meant for a show of support for the poor dog.
and yet i don't believe that cop that strung up his own Dog Partner and BEAT IT was ever charged with assaulting an officer...
It is not a “dog” in its capacity as a “canine officer”. the reason police dogs were given this distinction is because they serve much in the same way any other “police partner” serves.
the police dog serves alongside his human cop..the canine officer can hold, or grab and hold and “detain” a criminal; they can “attack’ and knock down a criminal, they can “stand in the way of a bullet “ or attack meant for a human officer.
In service, the police dog BECOMES AN EXTENSION OF THE OFFICER....and the officer depends on the canine for intervention, tactical support, combined police work in situations,etc....much like any other “human “ partner.
In legal and in REAL terms, the canine officer IS an officer of the law....not a “dog hanging out with a cop.”
This guy is a violent paranoid schizo who does not deserve to be out among the general population.
Locking him up for life for his third strike is the appropriate thing to do.
Yeah. It’s called destruction of property.
Cop kills dog as cuffed family watches
Another "lost" cop kills another dog and steals.
Double standard, eh?
Whatever.
Then my dog is an extension of me. If you threaten my dog, then I kill you.
See how stupid your post is?
YOU said no crime was committed when you said, “what crime?” in post 13. You have got to be near the top rung of stupid. If you want to argue that the sentence is excessive than fine, that can be legitimate. But to argue that there was no crime when obviously there was simply shows you were dropped on your head too many times as a child.
I've had it with you. Stop taking meth or crack or whatever it is you take moron!
Oh, and stop being so stupid as to stake out an indefensible position and then decide you are going to hold onto it regardless of it’s foolishness.
Read the article again. The guy didn't go to prison for life for killing the dog per se. He was already a convicted felon, and apparently this was his third felony, and he committed the felony using a gun. He went to prison because of the three strikes and you're in for life law.
Since I have found most dogs to be better company than most humans, anyone who injures or kills one of these creatures should be locked away.
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