Posted on 06/19/2014 6:52:35 AM PDT by mandaladon
A Baltimore police officer is facing felony animal cruelty charges after he allegedly slit the throat of a 7 year-old dog that had already been placed under control.
The incident happened Saturday, and Baltimore police officials announced charges against the unnamed officer on Wednesday.
Sarah Gossard’s Shar Pei, Nala, was loose over the weekend when police were called to catch her.
But after using a dog pole to round up Nala, one officer made a shocking move.
“Unfortunately, at some point after the dog was contained, one of our officers used a knife and cut the dog’s throat,” said Baltimore police deputy commissioner Dean Palmere, according to WBAL.
“This is outrageous and unacceptable breach of our protocol,” he said.
Nala’s owner, Sarah Gossard, said that she believes that Nala bit someone but that the officer’s actions were out of line.
“She was just the sweetest dog and would never hurt anyone. She was just scared that day and through all of those events – scared and lost, thirsty, hungry,” Gossard told WBAL.
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Well, at least the officer got to go home safely that night.
Cops are becoming true domestic terrorists...
WTF? What is it with cops and dogs these day’z?
This guys needs to have a psych hold put on him immediately. I wonder if he’ll get any death threats?
It does seem that the official reaction is also one of disgust, with charges pending on the officer in question. Good.
I think police departments need to get a more indepth psych evaluation before hiring or at least before taking new hires off of probation.
They just want to kill something....
Name him. Shame him. Shun him.
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An they’s happiest when they’s woikin’!
Woof-Woof
Dead dog ping...
“WTF? What is it with cops and dogs these day’z?’
It was a Shar Pai!
DUH!
It could have been hiding an extremely powerful fully automatic machine gun with a high capacity clip full of extremely powerful cop killer bullets in one of those wrinkles.
It keeps happening because of the lack of punishment of perpetrators. “I felt threatened” is too broad a criterion to be justification for killing a human or animal.
Calling police to catch a loose dog was the first mistake. But, that doesn’t excuse slaughtering it once subdued. Slitting a dog’s throat is an indication of serious psych problems with that officer, imho, to the point that he should not be on the force. Very inappropriate response to stimulus, even if bitten. What if this was some endangered species of wild creature rather than a dog? The full weight of the bureaucracy would be landing on his head right now. The full weight of something needs to land on it for doing what he did.
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