Good-bye, Jean. Too bad you had to encounter violent street thugs.
Posted on 01/08/2013 12:25:48 PM PST by Altariel
A Lafayette family’s 15 year old pet dog was shot inside their fenced backyard today by Lafayette Police. Officers were dispatched when the Sonnier family’s house alarm was set off because a door was not properly closed when they left the house this morning. According to the Sonniers, when the alarm went off, the monitoring company called the contact list, including Michelle Sonnier, a nurse practitioner who was with a patient at the time. Her husband Matt was also unable to answer, so they called Michelle’s mother, next on the list. She then called Matt – he was able to answer this time – who called the alarm company and told them it was a false alarm- all of this happened within 9 minutes time. About thirty minutes later, Michelle arrived at home, coming in through the garage entrance in back, and saw the commotion outside. She went out to get the mail and that’s when police asked where she came from and told her that they had shot their dog inside their fenced backyard.
A statement from Lafayette Police reads:
On Monday, January 7, 2013, at approximately 12:20 pm, Lafayette Police responded to a residence in the 200 block of Montauban Drive regarding an alarm activation at a residence. Two Lafayette Police Officers arrived on the scene and began checking the perimeter of the residence. The two officers entered into the backyard that was surrounded by a fence. As officers moved in the direction of the back of the home, a large dog approached them in an aggressive manner. Both officers fired one shot, killing the dog. The officers were not injured during the incident. The incident is being investigated by the Lafayette Police Department’s Internal Affairs Section, which is standard procedure when an officer discharges a firearm.
A Lafayette family is mourning the death of the pet tonight after it was allegedly shot by a Lafayette Police Officer today. The family’s 15-year-old pet dog was shot inside their fenced backyard today when police responded to a house alarm call.
According to our sister station 99.9 KTDY, Officers were dispatched to the Sonnier home when the family’s house alarm was set off. The alarm was set-off because a door was not properly closed when they left the house this morning. According to the Sonniers, when the alarm went off, the monitoring company called the contact list, including Michelle Sonnier, a nurse practitioner who was with a patient at the time. Her husband Matt was also unable to answer, so they called Michelle’s mother, next on the list. She then called Matt – he was able to answer this time – who called the alarm company and told them it was a false alarm- all of this happened within 9 minutes time. About thirty minutes later, Michelle arrived at her home, entering her home through the garage entrance in back. It was then she saw all of the commotion going on outside of her homw. When she went outside, LP.D. asked where she came from. At that point, Mrs. Sonnier was informed by L.P.D. that they had shot the family dog inside their fenced backyard.
The Lafayette Police Dept. have since released the following statement:
On Monday, January 7, 2013, at approximately 12:20 pm, Lafayette Police responded to a residence in the 200 block of Montauban Drive regarding an alarm activation at a residence. Two Lafayette Police Officers arrived on the scene and began checking the perimeter of the residence. The two officers entered into the backyard that was surrounded by a fence. As officers moved in the direction of the back of the home, a large dog approached them in an aggressive manner. Both officers fired one shot, killing the dog. The officers were not injured during the incident. The incident is being investigated by the Lafayette Police Department’s Internal Affairs Section, which is standard procedure when an officer discharges a firearm.
Killing dogs is what they do best.
All I know is that the officer would have to have shoot my wife too to keep her from beating his ass.
Just trying to make it to pension time.
“The intruders entered the master’s territory and approached me in an aggressive matter. Being an intelligent canine (I know, I know, that’s an ‘oxymoron’), I recognized the presence of loaded firearms. Clearly, the intruders meant to threaten my master as they aimed their weapons at me to prevent me from warning my master of the presence of hostile intruders. Those who do not regard the loyal dog will similarly fail to regard the life of his master.”
-—What the victim would have likely have said, (could the dog speak in English) and had the victim lived)
15-year-old dog? Probably didn’t even have teeth!
The only thing these thugs in blue are good for is harassing Joe citizen with traffic tickets AKA revenue enhancement. Shooting family pets and Grandma in botched no knock raids. They are turning the general populous against them. When the SHTF (and I expect that to happen soon) there WILL be hell to pay for those who stand with the gubermint
First thing that popped into my mind.
Two full blown jerks, get out of the damn fenced in backyard and call for backups if they are that afraid of an old dog.
Have real cops search the house.
Just doing what they are trained to do. See dog, shoot dog.
Good-bye, Jean. Too bad you had to encounter violent street thugs.
Killing dogs is getting to be S.0.P. - standard operating procedure. Can any LEO say otherwise?
Lovely Jean. The eyes say a good dog.
There were over 100K+ LEO’s that did not shoot a dog today.
Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water lest you invalidate the argument some make that 70 million gun owners did not kill someone today.
It is not SOP it was two doofuses that were scared of a dog.
“There were over 100K+ LEO’s that did not shoot a dog today.”
The day’s not over.
Sorry that argument doesn’t hold water as these incidences are happening more and more and are starting to be the norm
And many of those 100K + LEOs are NOT dealing with those LEOs who ARE shooting dogs.
Any man who willingly shoots a dog because it gives him a thrill to do, or because it gives him a “jolt of power” to do so, is a sadist.
LEOs who do not immediately charge and arrest sadists within their ranks create and promote a culture of sadism.
Clearly, the LEOs (as opposed to the peace officers of old) are training for something.
For what, we must ask, is the practice of shooting dogs being clearly promoted and encouraged by the “thin blue line”?
Do a search on the “warondogs” keyword.
This isn’t a local problem. It’s a national problem.
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