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Posted on 01/11/2003 7:15:46 PM PST by chance33_98
Deputy Fired Over Killing Dog
Deputy Intentionally Ran Down And Killed Dog
POSTED: 7:47 a.m. MST January 11, 2003
A San Juan County Sheriff's deputy accused of intentionally running down and killing a dog has been fired.
Sheriff Bob Melton announced the termination of Mario Marin Friday. He says his decision was based on an internal investigation.
Marin is accused of chasing down the dog and running it over three times in a pickup truck while off duty on January Seconds. The incident happened in Bloomfield.
Marin told investigators the dog had been running loose when it killed his family's dog and bit his sister. The dog's owner, Jennifer McFarland, was cited for having an animal at large.
District Attorney Greg Tucker says he would likely make a decision next week on whether to prosecute Marin in connection with the incident.
I have no sympathy for this idiot.
Some people are no smarter than the dogs they defend.
No...
That won't work...
They hate dogs too.
BY MAYA SURYARAMAN
AND LAURA KURTZMAN
Mercury News
A pit bull went on the attack at an East San Jose middle school campus Monday morning, biting three students before it was shot to death by a San Jose police officer.
The dog, whose owner lives across the street from Lee Mathson Middle School, strayed onto a campus field at about 8 a.m., before classes started. It pursued and bit two students playing on the turf, then ran into an open classroom and bit a third teenager while classmates watched, police and fire officials said.
The 13-year-old and two 14-year-olds suffered minor puncture wounds and abrasions on their legs. They were treated and released at San Jose Medical Center.
A San Jose police officer killed the dog with five shots after it lunged at him in a school parking lot. Police first tried but failed to subdue the dog with pepper spray.
"He did wipe his eyes with his paw, but other than that, he kept going," said Capt. Mark Mooney, a spokesman for the San Jose Fire Department.
The victims are awaiting results of lab tests to determine whether the dog had rabies. However, animal-control officials said this is unlikely.
"There's been no reported dog rabies in Santa Clara County for years," said Charlie Atkins, director of South Bay Animal Control Services.
Monday's incident comes at a time of heightened sensitivity to dog attacks. Less than two weeks ago, a San Francisco woman died after she was mauled by a neighbor's dog in the hallway of her Pacific Heights apartment building.
The dog in Monday's attack was named K.J., which is also a slang term for the drug PCP, and was a pit bull, police and animal-control officials said.
K.J. had been involved in another attack in the Sal Si Puedes neighborhood in July, when the dog, then 4 months old, bit a 13-year-old boy on the arm.
After the attack, the dog was ordered quarantined, but animal control officials said the confinement was lifted in August after its owner, Alberto Orozco, 19, complied with the conditions imposed.
Orozco declined to talk to reporters Monday. His father, Pedro Orozco, 47, a gardener, said he was not at home when the attack occurred, and was not sure how his son's dog escaped. He said K.J. was normally docile and slept at night on the sofa or with various family members.
A neighbor, Maria Peña, who lives in the same duplex on Sinclair Drive, agreed about the dog's demeanor. "All the time, when the dog saw me, he was playful," Peña said.
However, she said K.J. had startled her twice in the past seven months by creeping up on her from behind while she was in her kitchen.
The neighborhood's mail carrier, Birbal Bola, 43, said that while the area had its share of aggressive dogs, he had never even seen K.J. in his nine months of delivering in the area.
Mathson Middle School's vice principal, Andres Ortiz, was one of the first to see K.J. on the school grounds. He said he tried unsuccessfully to keep K.J. away from the kids on the field. When K.J. entered the classroom, Ortiz used a garbage can to fend off the dog, but was unable to prevent the dog from biting the third student.
"The kids got upset," Ortiz said. "I had to calm them down."
School officials ordered students back to their classrooms after the early-morning attack began. Students were allowed back outside after police left the scene. School district officials then dispatched a crisis team of counselors and psychologists to reassure traumatized students.
"They came prepared to talk about the incident and soothe the fears and excitement of it all," said Joseph Carrillo, superintendent of Alum Rock Union School District.
Carrillo said the district would distribute a flier reminding all pet owners in the Alum Rock area about San Jose's leash law.
The law requires owners of unlicensed dogs, such as K.J., to keep their pets restrained by confining them behind a fence at least 6 feet high, or on a leash three feet or shorter.
Atkins of South Bay Animal Control Services said K.J.'s owner was being cited for having his dog off a leash and for failing to register him.
Both are administrative offenses, not criminal ones, and are punishable with $100 fines.
Police also will be investigating the case to see if there is any criminal wrongdoing. Owners of vicious dogs that attack people can be held liable for the attack and the penalties can include jail time.
It wasn't clear whether K.J. had been vaccinated for rabies. The law requires dogs to be vaccinated when they are 4 months old, a year later and every three years after that. To license a dog, it must have proof of rabies vaccination. K.J. was not licensed, Atkins said.
Cases of rabies have become rare in the United States, with only one case per 10 million people reported in 1996 and 1997, according to statistics posted on the Web site for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In the late 1980s, Santa Clara County moved to ban pit bulls after the fatal 1987 mauling of a 2 1/2-year-old Morgan Hill boy. But the state in 1989 adopted a dangerous-dog law that overturned the county's ban.
Instead, the state law regulated only individual dogs with a demonstrated history of violence, defined as two unprovoked attacks on people or domestic animals in three years.
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I tell ya, the cops are just out control.
You just made my list.
Some cops are no smarter than the dogs they love to kill.
LOL!
I can understand why muslims hate dogs (because they refuse to put out for them like goats and camels do), but I can't figure out why some cops (the JBT contigent) hate them also.
Occams (sp) razor states what the answer to my question would be....
You just figured that out?
Then again, if the dog had killed my own dog (I do love dogs, by the way) and bit my sister, I might have been tempted to just toss my job right out the window and do precisely what he did. (I don't really know that I would have done the stupid [illegal] thing that he did, but I can't swear that I wouldn't have done it. So, maybe I'm a little sympathetic with him after all. [It's a depravity thing which I recognize in myself.])
I have treated a lot of dog bite victims. And some of them are pretty badly shaken. And their loved ones are often pretty furious.
A dog running loose jumped my fence and BIT my doughter requireing 13 stitches. Later when nothing was done about the dog I simply did what animal control should have done. Now the dog owners have a very small dog.
OK freepers let a dog attack YOUR family and see what you do, I guarantee if nothing is done with the dog in the middle of the night YOU will take care of the situation yourself.
I know where you're going with this Mulder...
And this would be a mistake!
Puerile as the boys in ballistic nylon often manage to be, they aren't goat-humpers my friend.
But most of them are married.
The dirty little secret is that moslems hate dogs in direct proportion to how much their wives and girlfriends -ahem- love them...
And now you know the REST of the story!
You never hear any stories about cops shooting cats. Surely some snarling rabid attack cats have threatened cops, but you never hear about that. Wonder why?
You shrunk their dog?
He would be a hero of the law enforcement community and all of the suck ups would be defending him.
They say that there are dog persons and cat persons. I like cats, but I love dogs. Don't know why the dominant media is suppressing the news about cat atrocities, but it seems wrong to me.
Because the cats are their Familiars?
A Gainesville police sergeant shot a stray dog Friday at about 10:20 a.m. after efforts to stop it from attacking another dog failed. The incident took place in the backyard of Clara Calhoun, 402 NE 15th St., a GPD report stated.
Calhoun and others were trying to stop the stray dog from attacking her dog by hitting it with sticks, but they failed.
Police tried using chemical spray to stop the stray dog, but that also failed. Because of the dog's aggressiveness and the potential danger it posed to area residents, police decided to shoot it.
Calhoun's dog, which was seriously wounded as a result of the stray's attack, was taken by Alachua County Animal Control to the shelter on Northeast 53rd Avenue with the body of the dead stray.
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*Sigh* the JBTs oeverreact yet again. Would it have been so hard to try to reason with the dog? Don't the police have trained hostage intervention teams trained to talk dogs down from their anger? Why was this dog not provided a lawyer? Where is the due process, people!?!
No. They stomp cats in phoney drug raids..
No mention that this guy made any attempt to contact the "proper authorities" to have anything done about this dog. His badge doesn't make him a supreme authority. He should have to abide by the same laws as everyone else. In the case you describe I don't have any problem. Just doesn't seem to have any bearing here.
Woah, imagine that: Doggie seatbelts for the personally responsible dog owner, readily available for only $16.99.
A friend of mine said (jokingly) that he was gonna drive 100 MPH until the police pulled him over, then throw his family cat at the policeman in hopes he would shoot it.
He has a wife and two teenaged daughters, so he can only talk like this at work.
In fairness, there was a 'vicious breed' issue in the Tennessee case...
Wasn't that little pooch described by the donut patrollers as a PitBull-Tyranosuarus crossbreed?
LOL
Evil, evil, must kill them all.
Justifiable dogicide........
A San Francisco police officer shot and wounded a dog that bit a 2-year-old girl in a Potrero Hill park tonight, police said.
A police spokesman said officers happened to come upon the attack at 155 Dakota St. at about 8:20 p.m. When the dog lunged at the officers, one of them fired a single shot.
A Fire Department spokesman said the bite apparently did not break the child's skin. The victim was not transported to the hospital.
Animal Care and Control officers took custody of the wounded dog, which police said had been living with its owner in a van in the area. The owner was cited in connection with the attack.
On June 24, officers shot and killed a pit bull to stop an attack on a 4-year-old boy in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood. The boy was treated at a hospital for a bite wound to his right thigh.
Now the JBT's are using 2 year olds as BAIT!!! How far will they go to continue their murderous rampage against the canine species!?!?!?!
He wasn't fired because he was angry/hurt and sought revenge, but for his method which demonstrated a lack of personal control -(Something we may want our guys in uniform to possess. Just a thought).
When I was a kid, and cops were still just cops, we had the dog-catcher for this sort of thing.
Dogs were still just dogs in those days, you see...
Entirely managable without all of this sophomoric uber-drama and mayhem.
But that was half a century or so ago.
Dogs were still just dogs in those days, you see...
Entirely managable without all of this sophomoric uber-drama and mayhem.
But that was half a century or so ago.
We have come/gone? so far in so short a period of time.
It is truly scary.
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