you never answered me when i asked how come of all the people who come into daily contact with our pets only so called cops are the ones killing them
They aren't the only ones who might shoot an attacking dog. Lots of dogs get shot every year.
We just don't hear about it unless it's a high profile incident. Such as this one.
Every day, over 1,000 people (on average) are attacked and bit by dogs. If only 1% use a gun, that's 10 dead dogs everyday.
Personally, I think the % is higher than just 1%, considering the number of people packin' these days.
.how come postmen dont kill them?
Probably because US Postal Service employees aren't allowed to carry guns.
Although just in 2023 at least 5,800 mail men were bitten by dogs. Every one of them would have likely liked having a gun at the time. might have prevented their bites.
And for each of those 5,800 bites, there were likely dozens of near bites by attacking dogs.
and i did answer your question about other ways to handle that situation. he could have stayed in his car and on the radio demanded to speak with an adult and then demand that the dog be restrained,
Not really. It was that cops Right to be standing where he was. He was in a public place and had official business at that address.
What you didn't answer was, what if it had been someone other than a cop? What if it had been a 10yo child facing a charging aggressive dog trying to bite?
What would they do? They'd get bit, is what they'd do, and you act like you'd be ok with that.
In the body cam vid, the dog clearly has teeth bared and lunged at the cop at least twice after he tried making friends with it when it first ran up.
,,he should have showed up with the dog catcher,
Like there is always a dog catcher standing by and that every cop has time to wait on them to get to the call.
The owners committed a crime by letting their dog run loose in the front yard.
If you don't have your dog under control in public, you might not get to control the outcome of having had your dog running loose in a public place.
,What that cop did was premeditated and he on purpose set the dog up for an excuse to kill it.
It wasn't premeditated. For it to be that, he would have had to plan the shooting in advance.
That low life cop is not a hero,
I never said his actions made him a hero. He was in a bad situation and acted as the law would allow anyone to react in such a situation.
.can i ask if you are a cop or are related to or friends with a cop thug??
None of that applies. I agree that some cops sometimes do bad stuff, but this case was not one of those times.
He had a Right to be where he was at. Everyone has the Right to be where he was. The people had a duty to keep their dog on their property, and if off their property, to control it. They failed to do that, but you hold them blameless? As though there was nothing THEY could have done to prevent their dog trying to attack someone?
we got loose animals right now and they are called immigrants and what are our so called policemen doing?? they are busy killing our pets!!
I agree, they should be shooting the former too, when applicable.
legally the cop will worm his way out of this but morally he was wrong.
No need to worm. It's a clear cut case of self defense and owner negligence.
Only the owner had the power to have prevented the incident from ever happening.
now justice would be if one was to find a cops house and his kids playing in the front yard with their dog and then proceed to lure it into the road and to bark at me so i can shoot it and claim self defense.
If his dog is loose and on the attack and you are on the public easement, go for it? I'll back you all the way if those conditions are met. As would any reasonable person.
You on the sidewalk, his dog loose and threatening to bite you? Shoot away, or whatever you feel you need to do to protect yourself from attack. What would you want your kid to do in such situation? If a passerby saw your kid about to be bit, would you be mad because they shot the dog? Seems so.
that cop showed up for one reason only and that was to teach that family a lesson by killing the dog
Considering that they feel they did nothing wrong, is proof they didn't learn any lessons from this tragic incident.
the only dangerous thing in this whole scenario is the pussy potbellied cop. AKA "judge dredd" a barking dog in his territory does not equate danger,
it wasn't "his" territory. He was on a public street. The dog came to him.
,the video shows the dog to be just barking at a stranger and actually backing away when shot
It shows the dog lunging at him multiple times. Ie: typical dog attack behavior. They lunge like that looking for a path to bite. The pit bulls I got attacked by exhibited the exact same behavior, and I would have been justified in shooting them. Same as that cop was.
as for the man at the town council, i am just glad he did not bark at one of the armed and dangerous thug enforcers there.
Had he came at the cop as aggressively as he did the lectern, he might have got the same outcome his dog got.
the whole point of this was to point out how cops are NOT heroes any longer and will let pervs flash kids but will not tolerate a barking loose dog,
Apples and oranges. Not only different cops, but completely different jurisdictions. I have no doubt that those pride idiots would have gotten a different response in Davenport Iowa.
,,to me that means something is not white in the milk! i did not intend to hi-jack the topic,i am sorry.
Is hijacking a thread on this site even possible?
one more thing and i am done with this..... the dog was at least 3ft away from the cop and was the type of dog that was all bark and no bite,, he was the kind of dog that stayed just out of reach and barked alot,,ive seen hundreds just like him,,,,this particular cop has a history of killing loose dogs,,, he was WRONG and deserves at the very least a good asswhuppin....Karma is a Bitch sometimes.
An aggressive dog threatening to bite at 3' is waaaay too close. You act as though the cop should been nonchalantly ignoring the dog. Apparently you've never been in that situation.
Ahhhhh but he was terrified of a 45 lb dog,, what a pussy!!! and like i pointed out before,,, why did he show up without a dog catcher??? ill tell you why cuz he wanted to kill a dog.
You sound like the ones who complain about the cops shooting a person who becomes violent and complaining that a social worker wasn't sent with them.
