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.
He really doesn’t seem to get that the same cops who have no problem shooting a dog are usually the same cops who would have no qualms shooting a Freeper and claim he was “threatened” or “just following orders”.
When you get to make up the facts, what difference does it make as to what the report said.
I made up no facts.
I refer you to:
http://reason.com/blog/2010/08/04/federal-cop-shoots-dog-at-a-do
“When the dogs began to play roughly, the federal officer asked Bear-Bear’s guardian, his owner’s brother, to call off the dog. But before he could do anything, the officer pulled out a gun and shot Bear-Bear, according to the husky’s owner.”
I suggest you research the case further before YOU continue to invent the facts.
This dog certainly wasn’t friendly to the burglar.
I bet the burglar is happy about the outcome of this case-—another Private Citizen deprived of its First Defense against the criminal element.
Maybe the police had read this. Charming critters, them thar pits. I’d be wary too.
Fatalities from dog attacks have been documented thus far in the United States for 2010
(updated 4/19/10)
•California: A family-owned pit bull type dog attacked and killed a three-year-old boy on January 9 in Apple Valley, San Bernardino County. A news report indicates that the father left his son momentarily in the backyard to get a toy from inside the house, and upon his return he discovered that his son had already been attacked, and was not breathing. Authorities arrived at the scene, and shot and killed the dog. The incident was one of five fatal dog attacks in Southern California’s Inland Empire since 2006.
•Illinois: A 56-year-old South side Chicago man was mauled to death by at least two pit bull type dogs in his home on January 17. In total, there were six pit bull type dogs found in the home, four adults and two puppies, owned by his daughter who may have been breeding the dogs, although this is not clear. The daughter also lived at the home but was not home at the time of the attack. The mauling was savage, with both ears bitten off, one of the man’s eyes completely gouged, and numerous bites throughout the man’s torso and extremities, suggesting more than one dog’s involvement. According to neighbors, these dogs did not have a history of aggression towards people, were friendly towards neighbors, and the daughter maintain good control over of the dogs. Authorities concluded that the death was “accidental”.
•Mississipi: The fatality involved a six-year-old girl who was playing in the snow outside her home and was attacked by a neighbor’s pit bull dog. Apparently, only one dog was involved in the incident, but reports indicate that this dog lived with other pitbull dogs nearby. The probable cause of death to the victim were severe bite marks to the neck. In Terry, MS on February 12.
•Minnesota: The victim in this incident was an 11-day-old boy in a car seat situated on the owner’s bed. The dog involved was the family’s unusually large , male 70 lb. Siberian husky. Injuries were inflicted to the victim’s head. A story about this incident in which Dr. Polsky was interviewed can be accessed here. On February 18, in Independence, MN.
•Pennsylvania: The victim was a 38-year-old female who was arguing with her mother in the early morning hours of February 19 in the Fishtown section of Philadelphia, when one of the family’s pit bulls, an adult female, fatally attacked the victim as she fell backward during an argument. The mother was fighting with her daughter in an attemp to take the keys to the house away from her. According to news reports, when she fell backwards a lamp came crashing to the floor, which likely further exacerbated whatever aggressive tendencies this particular pit bull dog had momentarily as the incident unfolded. The mother said that the dog was in some sort of “protection-mode”. The dog locked its jaws around the victim’s neck and would not release. Reports indicate that neighbors, along with the mother, who also had five other pit bulls in the house, claim that all dogs were well-behaved and there were no problems between the dogs and the daughter. The daughter was familiar wih the dog involved in the incident. The daughter lived at the residence when she was not in jail or in drug-rehab. When the police arrived they shot two of the dogs, and the other four were taken to the SPCA.
•Flordia: In Ocala, FL. on February 20. The breed of dog involved in the incident was the American bulldog, despite other reports initially stating the breed was pit bull. The victim in this case was a three-year-old girl who was playing in the yard, and then entered the caged area containing four tethered, American bulldogs. The toddler became entangled on one of the dog’s tether, and was attacked and killed by a single, reproductively intact, male dog. The mother was cleaning the cages, and may have left the cage door unlatched, but this is unclear. She had gone into the house to use the restroom, and upon return discovered her child was inside the cage and mauled by the dog. The mother was operating a dog breeding business out of her home.
•Georgia: On February 18 in Conyers, GA. The victim was a five-day-old infant fatally wounded by a pit bull type dog. The mother walked into her daughter’s room, in response to the infant’s crying, and discovered the dog on top of the infant in the bassinet.
•Oregon. The victim was a four-year-old girl killed by the family 2 year-old Rottweiler. Details are sketchy for this case other than the fact that the mother discovered her badly injured child on the front lawn of the house, and shortly thereafter the child was taken to a Portland hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival. The victim was the daughter of television’s reality show “Ax Men”,co-star Jesse Browning. According to an investigator, “apparently, the dog just snapped”. In Astoria, Oregon on or about February 28.
•Oklahoma. On March 8 on the Iowa Indian Reservation near Perkins, Oklahoma. Victim was an eight-month-old boy by two Rottweiler dogs brought into the home the night before for protection purposes. Initially news reports indicated that just one dog was involved, but this was changed to two dogs in subsequent reports. Both dogs were destroyed by animal control. Cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head, according to the medical examiner. Information on this case is sketchy. Note that other dog bite fatalities have occurred on Indian reservations in North America in 2010.
•Flordia. The incident involved a three year old, male pit bull mix dog, who severely mauled a seven-day old infant. The incident happened on the bed where the infant routinely slept with his 16-year-old mother. According to news reports, this particular pit bull dog, slept in the same bedroom with the infant and his mother. The mother was home at the time of the incident, but slept through the attack and discovered injured the baby later, but the infant could not be revived. According to others who knew the dog, this pitbull mix dog displayed no previous signs of aggressive behavior towards people. In New Port Richey, Florida on or about April 13, 2010.
What is your evidence that this pitbull executed by cops had attacked any person?
Why are you attempting to change the subject from a dog unlawfully shot by police to other dogs who attacked people or animals?
I bet the burglar is happy about the outcome of this case-—another Private Citizen deprived of its First Defense against the criminal element.
Why are you trying to divert the subject away from that observation?
The more of these cases there are, the more mistrustful of police many in the public will become.
It’s a pity that Peelian principles seem to be ignored in the police academy these days.
I suspect there’s more to this story than what the owner says. I simply don’t believe that policemen arbitrarily execute dogs they don’t like. Let’s wait and see. I remember Al Sharpton’s story about Tawana Brawley. Pure bullshit. Let’s hear the other side.
Some cops have done so in the past; in recent history,
“The videos, released by Des Moines Police show the dog being tazed by an officer, then running away. In another video you hear an officer fire his gun, presumably hitting the dog, then another officer saying “Nice”.”
People don’t compliment their coworkers unless the coworker has complied—or gone above and beyond—the expectations of their workforce.
The officers in this article were there to investigate a burglary. Not to shoot the owner’s dog. A growling dog is not, in and of itself, a threat to an officer.
From the article:
“They told my sister that he wasn’t trying to bite them and that he growled at them when they tried to put the noose around him, but they couldn’t catch him and they were tired of messing with him and they just shot him,” D’Aurio said.
D’Aurio said the dog was not being aggressive and thinks that police crossed the line.
“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.
Channel 11’s Courtney Brennan contacted Uniontown police who did not wish to comment on the story.
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The police declined to comment on the story; they declined to so much as refute any of the assertions made by the woman in the article.
Some cops have done so in the past; in recent history,
“The videos, released by Des Moines Police show the dog being tazed by an officer, then running away. In another video you hear an officer fire his gun, presumably hitting the dog, then another officer saying “Nice”.”
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