Posted on 02/04/2014 5:16:16 AM PST by Ken H
Chief promises full investigation after Chesapeake Bay Retriever is shot twice in front yard
An Anne Arundel County police officer shot and killed a family's dog Saturday while investigating a burglary, officials said.
Police said the officer — a one-year veteran of the force who was not identified — was canvassing a neighborhood looking for witnesses around 4 p.m. Saturday.
When the officer went to a home in 900 block of Lombardee Circle in Glen Burnie the dog — a male Chesapeake Bay Retriever named Vern — "confronted" the officer in the front yard, police said. The officer then fired his weapon twice, killing the dog, police said.
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Kids don’t generally attack and bite strangers.
Absolutely. I suspect the officer would have shot the Lab were it on a chain. It has been done, numerous times.
Fixed.
That cop is lucky to be alive...it is clear from the above photo that the dog was a foaming rabid menace to all humans in the neighborhood, and needed to be put down...this cop probably saved hundreds of children’s lives.
De rigueur.
Sorry, the article says the dog was on the owner’s property. Our dogs are trained to stay in the yard. Second, many people these days have invisible fences, but if an officer is dumb enough to walk into the yard without permission...?
That is not a negligence issue on the part of the owner, it is a stupidity issue on the part of the officer.
Did you read the article? The police say the dog confronted the officer in the front yard. The dog was not running loose.
Wonder how long it will be until this cop shoots an innocent home owner while executing (pun intended) a ‘no knock warrant’.
I actually did a brief spellcheck via a search engine and picked the 1 wrong spelling and actually did a lift and copy.
what an internet.
ROTFLMAO!!! In some towns in soviet Red Hampshire; your dog is considered to be in compliance with leash laws as long as he is under verbal control of his master. No leash needed.
I’m curious. How do phone company, power company, cable company, mail delivery, etc. people manage to go to multiple homes each and every day without shooting dogs that bark at them?
I’m guessing the answer is they would be fired and prosecuted for doing such a thing.
I work with a great lab named Oscar. He is totally rockin’ trained and even the owner is amazed at times at times at what just a whisper or the lift of a finger get’s him to do.
He recently went to an ER hospital and even the ER vet, who is the type most likely to get a bite, was impressed with Oscar’s behavior and training.
But...I’ve walked Oscar where he locks onto something and his bark & growl, when he is riled, can be very surprising. He had a little kid come running up to him the other day..and that startled him...and Oscar gave out a warning bark. The kid stopped dead in his tracks and the Dad who was following the kid did as well. Dad then asked if he could approach to get his kid. I smiled and told Oscar to sit and invited them to WALK UP and meet Oscar. We got to use it as a valuable ...people lesson...for the kid’s sake.
All this rambling to simply state...yeah even a lab can appear menacing. But, in this case the officer was clearly in the wrong and trespassing.
The dog was on private property and so was the cop without a warrant.
Correct.
Not stupidity. Overwhelming arrogance and the knowledge that there are never and personal consequences to police for killing peoples' pets (rarely any consequences for police killing people for that matter.)
If the dog wasn't behind a fence, or wasn't on a leash or chain, it was loose. Maybe not "running", but loose nonetheless.
Applying the same rule that I do to all police shootings, I ask the simple question, "How would the police respond if I, instead of the policeman, had done precisely the same thing?" In this case, I am 100% certain I would have been arrested and lost my concealed carry.
A dog barking at you on its property is not a vicious dog, and a retriever is about the last dog breed in the world that would can expect to bite. This sissy cop should be fired.
You bet, but they're not cops who don't have to follow laws, just ever flexible and nebulously defined "departmental guidlines."
In this case, the dog's owners were inside the house and the dog was outside. Where was the verbal control?
“Applying the same rule that I do to all police shootings, I ask the simple question, “How would the police respond if I, instead of the policeman, had done precisely the same thing?”
Exactly. And for pointing that out you and I are labeled “cop haters”. In most of the shooting by cop articles here if I had done THE EXACT SAME THING I would be sent straight to jail and would be looking at a long stint in prison.
But not the cop.
Some animals are better than others........
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