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.
I will admit that there a some cops that are good guys. Unfortunately a lot aren’t. My experience is that at least half are jerks.
There’s so damned much of this shooting of family pets going on across the entire country by law enforcement personnel that it wouldn’t be a stretch to believe there exists a uniform training manual with such instruction as standard operational procedure.
If any street gang had a nationwide campaign to shoot house dogs, and was doing so on a daily basis, it would be a top story on the news for months.
When government employees do it?
Covered locally.
Mostly national silence (except on the Internet, where free conservatives can put 2 & 2 together, to the disgust of government employees everywhere).
FNG cops - yeah they are the only ones to be trusted w weapons.
There are still some peace officers; however, they are increasingly outnumbered by the LEOs.
You know that sometime these police grab for their weapon alittle too damn fast.
Why grab your gun when the dog could have been neutralized by using pepper spray.
You get sprayed with that stuff and I guarantee you your mind will be on other things like trying to stop the salivating and the burning.
What dopes these officers were.
However, if another legal gun owner were to use his gun because he "feared for his safety" (see George Zimmerman), then there are calls for gun confiscation.
Yes, police officers are asked to put themselves into dangerous situations, but they do not have a univeral right to use the guns they are issued, just because of some supposed fear of a domesticated family pet that meter readers or letter carriers also face each day with no incidents whatsoever.
-PJ
Can you prove that, or are you just seeing more reports?
Has anyone kept statistical records capable of documenting an increase?
True....the vast majority of LEO do not shoot dogs.
Although there are abuses by LEOs, and the dog shootings are tragic...I am positive there are a lot more irresponsible pet owners than trigger happy dog shooting LEO. Note that this family failed to properly set and take care of their alarm....which probably spooked their dog into a panic
People are just a little too much Savage and Levin when it comes to dogs.
I can’t think of a single freeper who has ever commented and said “this happened to someone I know 10 years ago, 15 years ago or 20 years ago”
A fundamental change from the constitution loving peace officer to the State-loving LEO is primarily responsible for this problem.
Nope. I believe cops do that to instill fear. It's a PsyOps action.
What total nonsense. Look in a mirror and mouth these words you just posted to see how totally ridiculous they are.
The presence of intruders on the master’s property is what alarmed the dog—as it would any dog.
The very presence of the dog would alert an intelligent non-government employee to the fact that no burglar could have entered through the back yard.
The dog was shot because those officers *wanted* to shoot the dog.
And for every LEO who actually shoots the dog, hundreds of LEOs cover for their brothers and do not expose their corrupt ways.
Odd, that most here agree that the Muslims who support terrorists by being silent about what they know are aiding the terrorists by their behavior; yet that argument is rarely applied to the government employees in blue.
Any officer who speaks out, condemns the problem and does everything in his power to expose the guilty so that the guilty may be arrested and tried proves himself to be a peace officer on the side of the American people.
http://www.inquisitr.com/25649/police-shoot-dead-a-chihuahua-but-only-after-tasing-it-first/
A Chihuahua? After it was ALREADY tazed? I was going to post that these police departments should issue tazers as standard issue, so that at least we could save some dogs. But now I wonder if cops deserve the benefit of the doubt.
Further highlighting that the problem is not fear, but sadism.
“There were over 100K+ LEO’s that did not shoot a dog today.”
And not a single one speaks out against other cops shooting dogs. Not a single one, so, they all get lumped in together as they refuse to distance themselves from those that do shoot dogs.
Freep-speak for "it's just a dog; get over it".
I don’t like it either, sadly I don’t have the answer. I do however value human life over animals and some here purport not to and that is biblically wrong. I say this as an owner of two family angels, but all the talk of shooting an LEO that shot your pet is big talk and tires me. False bravado that will be wasted as they stick the needle in your arm, if you made it that far.
I can say this, all the LEO’s I know are good, conservative guys and they, as I did, are getting tired of being demonized at every turn for the actions of others and are contemplating quitting, as did I. What then, we only have the bad ones. Better beware what bed you make by casting a wide net.
If police will do this to to dogs belonging to law abiding citizens, what else will they do especially after they’ve trained with the TSA? All in the name of protection?
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