Posted on 01/22/2011 7:43:25 PM PST by B4Ranch
UNIONTOWN, Pa. -- A woman in Fayette County said police used her dog for target practice when she called them for help.
Elizabeth D'Auria said she and her sister found their two-year-old pit bull dead after calling 911 for help.
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"They shot him six times with a pistol and once with a shotgun. They took the dog and we asked them if we could have him back to bury him and they won't give him back to us," said D'Aurio.
Are the police worried about a zombie dog rising from the grave and coming back for vengeance?
Something like what fool, do you have a door bell or door knocker on your house. If you do then a reasonable person would think you can walk up and ring the door bell or knocker with out the expectations of getting attack. Sort of common sense 101.
Back in the sixties I owned a dog, an Airedale that didn’t really want anything to do with people because her previous owner beat the living crap out of her. The other men just ignored her and that was fine with her and me.
When I brought her out to the ranch and she saw the Border Collies working the cattle in the pens, she wanted to join in but they would growl at her because they knew she didn’t know a ramp from a gate from a pen.
After about six months she would come over to get her ears scratched or a tic pulled. Nobody else could touch her without her trying to nip them. She flat out didn’t trust people, men especially. Heaven forbid if somebody tried to touch her hind quarters. Loud growls and serious attempts to bite! I was the only one she would let brush her backside with my hand or a wire brush.
She never did get to work the herd, just follow the Collies and pretend. LOL Finally a copperhead ended her misery.
I would think that Common Sense 101 for a cop would include not blowing away the family pet of someone who called me to report a burglary.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Anyone, and I do mean anyone, who harms one of my pets is a dead person walking. The only questions are when, where, and how.
I’m sure the carcass has been disposed of already.
Sounds like the dog actually served its self defense purpose in chasing off an intruder.
And it seems like the police were messing with the dog afterwards, trying to snare it in a noose. The dog was in an enclosed backyard according to the video and was murdered there by the cops.
Now the police won’t comment or release the evidence of animal abuse (= dead dog).
Doesn’t sound like the dog was out of control to me.
The cops have been on a dog killing roll lately! I wonder what glorious stories they have for each other at the local pub when they are downing beers and high fiving each other after they shoot another canine.
There is no such thing as murder of a damn animal, and anyone that thinks that is nothing more than some Peta whack job. The woman called the cops she had an obligation to control her animal so they could do their job. It was apparently so out of control it would not respond to her.
“In that story, one dog attack another, the dog that did the attack was put down. By the other dog owner. The dog that was attack was on a leash, the dog that was put down was running free and out of control. Not hard to understand.”
The point was this was an example of another overreaction by law enforcement. The officer took his dog to a dog park on a leash and there was an altercation between his dog and another. The federal officer pulled out his sidearm and killed the other dog. When a dog is on a leash around other dogs it creates dynamics that cause aggression. Dogs at dog parks do run free, that’s the purpose. They police tried to cover it up and squelch the story but the owner of the dog that was killed took it to talk radio and the rest as they say his history. There was total public outrage. The officer was charged etc..
Wearing a badge does not give a cop the right to abuse the people who pay him. The aspect of who works for whom is often lost by “public servants”.
I think it just happened that the dog attack a leashed dog of a cop, your comparison is off base. Would you have shot a dog attacking your animal, most people would.
Not to worry, someone will call FOR you so ya can race to see who gets the dog first.
>>There is no such thing as murder of a damn animal,<<
Try killing a police dog and see what the penalty is for that.
Still not murder.
It is, however, a felony. To kill a cop’s dog.
Yet it is not a felony to kill a private citizen’s dog.
Wrong. The two dogs in that account were playfighting.
NOT the same thing as a real dog fight.
The cop in the dog park incident gave the citizen instructions to bring his dog under control, then shot the Citizen’s dog before that occurred.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2564148/posts
The officer was not justified in shooting the dog, particularly in a public dog park where innocent bystanders and children are present.
And the officer was almost certainly violating the rules of the dog park, as dogs who MUST be kept on a leash should NOT be in the off leash area of the park.
The dog was controlled. It was in its yard and doing it’s job-—going after the Bad Guy.
Apparently the cops were threatened that the dog showed more prowess than they in that regard.
Nah, the pitbull was doing a cop’s job—going after the burglar.
Union members hate it when other parties demonstrate they can do their job with a greater success rate.
And a reasonable person would also approach the owner of a growling dog and request their assistance with the animal before shooting it.
Thank you for confirming the unreasonableness of the terminator cops’s actions.
The terminator cops suffer from dog envy, it seems.
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