Posted on 05/01/2013 6:22:31 PM PDT by Altariel
Wilmington police fatally shot a dog Tuesday night during a street-to-street search for a driver who reportedly fled when officers tried to pull him over, an official said.
Lucy Crockett, a spokeswoman for the Wilmington Police Department, said officers shot the unleashed dog after it tried to attack a police K-9 team involved in the search.
The incident began about 9:43 p.m. Tuesday when an officer ran a tag and the car's owner came back as having a suspended license. After the officer activated his blue lights, the driver pulled into a driveway in the 400 block of Evans Street, jumped out of the car and ran toward Clay Street, Crockett said.
Police set up a perimeter. A K-9 team tracked the suspect to nearby Maides Avenue, where it encountered the unrestrained dog.
The dog's breed was not immediately clear. Police reports describe it as a pit bull, however photographs provided to the StarNews suggest something else.
In any case, the dog, Crockett said in a media advisory, "went nose to nose with the K-9, as the handler tried to pull the K-9 away.
"Another officer tried to make the pit bull back off," she continued. "But the pit bull attacked the K-9, going first for his face and then trying to bite his throat." So an officer shot the dog to stop the attack.
The police department is reviewing this latest incident, a routine that unfolds any time police fire their guns.
A neighbor on Maides Avenue said the dog was "the friendliest dog in the neighborhood.
(Excerpt) Read more at starnewsonline.com ...
Yeah, I was thinking it looked like there might be some spitz in there.
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“That dog goes right to the mailbox doing his business and doesn’t go out of that yard,” Abdul Akbar said. “The dog has a tendency when he sees another dog to want to play. Everybody knows that dog.”
Akbar said the yard is unfenced, but the dog doesn’t leave its boundaries. He said the owner let the dog out to use the bathroom, and then it was shot four times by police.
The driver who fled escaped and was still at large Wednesday afternoon.
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Yep, and like Obama, they have set themselves up as a separate “class” or “caste” above us-—shoot their dog, be treated as though you shot a man in the eyes of the law.
Shoot one of our dogs, well, clearly, it must’ve DESERVED it. Peasant’s dogs always do.
(Do I need a sarc?)
Given the wound placement, it clearly was running at the shooter.
</sarc>
Before I got my first Ibizan Hound, I had no fence, here.
Arthur and Merlin, the red Dobes, skidded to a halt at my property line.
[I have no idea how they knew where it was but they obviously did]
All the Dobes I owned at my childhood home had no fences and ran loose 24/7.
They never stepped over the line.
The people up the pike have a Collie who lays on their front porch and it’s not even 20 feet from RT 40.
I’ve never even seen it venture off the porch.
Some dogs just do that.
If a strange dog runs into my yard somehow, is it my dogs’ fault if they rush out to repel it?
That’s their job.
Should they be murdered for doing it?
They don’t know ‘cop dog’ from ‘intruder dog’.
You’d think cops would be smart enough to make an allowance.
Poor thing’s snout is buried in the dirt as if it died running and plunged forward plus the camera angle is distorting the perspective, overall.
As I said, looks like Muff or any other Husky/GSD mix I see in backyards everywhere.
Looks mesaticephalic to me.
Backing into him at full speed, apparently.
Couldn’t have said it better.
Looks like a fat German Shepard x Hound mix. Shep for the coat color, some sort of hound for the ears and pudginess. Prolly the sort to drown you in slobber.
“Abdul Akbar”
Well there you go.
“Akbar said the yard is unfenced, but the dog doesn’t leave its boundaries”
This is like those who tell people their dog never bites. Then it does.
Or those parents that say “not my son”. Despite overwhelming evidence.
People, don’t totally trust your dogs. It’s nice, but just because he doesn’t most of the time doesn’t mean there will not be an exception.
Could definitely be, but that don’t fly as a good pix and evidence. Need a solid photo of the head to verify.
Article says he was shot 4 times, or at least shot AT 4 times. Could’ve been a struggle.
There were also several officers, not just 1. And multiple shots. Different angles all possible.
The government employees, not Abdul Akbar, were caught in a lie.
The neighbors are vouching for the good behavior of the dog, not the government employees.
Careful, lest one day others suggest that your name should be cause enough for others to not believe your word above a government employee’s word.
Unfortunately, cops have convinced themselves, by and large, that the lives of a few peasant’s dogs are unworthy of their concern.
The 95% of LEOs make the 5% of peace officers look bad.
Bottom line is we don’t have all the info, some of the info is questionable, yet again you assume all was good with the dog and cops are just bad. Your prejudice is so obvious, Alt.
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