Indeed.
They really need to pick better heroes.
Posted on 09/04/2012 11:23:27 AM PDT by Altariel
The Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office announced Thursday that it would not be pursuing disciplinary action against a deputy who fatally shot a tethered dog earlier this week.
Richard Woodruff was inside his Spartanburg, S.C. home Monday morning when he heard barking followed by a gunshot. The man rushed outside to check on his 8-year-old shepherd mix, Diamond, who had been playing out front while tethered to the porch railing.
"I ran outside and I see this guy standing over my dog holding a gun," Woodruff told Channel 7 news. "'I said, 'Why did you shoot my dog?' And his response to me was, 'Sir, she tried to bite me.' I said, 'She tried to bite you? She can't go any further to get you!'"
According to Woodruff, the dog was at the limit of her tether and could not advance any further when she was shot by plain-clothed deputy Eric Boutin. "All he had to do was take a couple of steps back and she could not have bitten him," Woodruff said in the Channel 7 interview.
Woodruff also pointed out the "Beware of Dog" sign attached to an oak tree on his lawn. The man states that the deputy parked his car in front of the sign and then walked right past it.
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Problem is the warning sign was in English
I think if somebody came on my property and shot my dog I’d have a tought time restraining myself from shooting them, in uniform or not.
Too stupid to be sheriff, and too stupid to be a deputy.
There are several “get out of jail free” responses by government officials.
For cops, one of them is: “It was for my own safety”.
If that were my dog Spartanburg would have a couple of job openings in the very, very near future. Including one for Sheriff.
Another guaranteed response is: “I want to go home at the end of my shift”.
We keep hearing these stories; there is another post about a widow in Buffalo. A few months back there there was a shooting of a dog that was small and on a short lease held by a 6 year old. The dog was shot anyway. This is just plain bullshit. It is part of the Departments training to just shoot the dog. It establishes who is actually in control and that is the only reason for doing it.
Since it is part of the Dept training, they will not chastise in any way the officer who shoots a dog. Maybe we need to start shooting back at the officer.
Perhaps the Shooting cop should be handcuffed, tased, cavity searched by a group of Sadomasocist Gays with aids,
hosed down with a firehose and beaten with a batton because
“he could” loose control as an Officer of the Court and start shooting things.
Fer crips sakes what have we become that we allow maroons like this to walk the streets with a badge and a loaded gun?
And to make the matter worse a Supervisor that thinks it’s okay to shoot and kill a Dog on a chain.
Unbelievable! Hot-headed law enforcement officer, kills tethered dog while trying to serve papers to a man who didn’t live at the house.... and the sheriff’s response is “Oops! So sorry.”
I hope the dog owner does take them court and I’m not usually for that sort of thing.
The letter carriers seem to be able to deal with dogs without snuffing them; why not cops?
This is the 3rd story today about cops shooting somebody’s dog in its own yard. And always the wrong yard.
“A few months back there there was a shooting of a dog that was small and on a short lease held by a 6 year old. The dog was shot anyway”
Link?
Wonder what the police who love dogs and have K-9’s think about these pigs?
It's like a casting call for the Biggest Loser/Jerry Springer Show/Jersey Shore and Good Times all rolled into one. I look out at the horizon and I see a storm coming. Vote early, vote often and then keep yourself prepared.
Is that you, Chett99?
Someday someone is going to use that Sheriff’s reasoning as justification.
“Well, he shot my dog. It was possible he was a rogue cop intent on shooting me, so I....”
Indeed.
They really need to pick better heroes.
Stories like this make it increasingly difficult for me to feel sympathy when cops get killed in the line of duty. It won’t be long until I’m cheering for the “bad” guys to win. I put bad guys in parenthesis because it seems these days cops aren’t that far removed from the criminals we pay them to apprehend.
No but it was reported in South Carolina
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