Patton
Posted: June 19, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized 4 Comments“He’s the gentlest dog that I’ve ever been around. He’s like Sooby Doo. He wasn’t mean at all.”
Mom, Dad, and their 17-year-old son were asked to step out of their vehicle and kneel down on the ground. Dad had left his wallet on the top of his car at a gas station, and through some sort of mix-up, the police thought that he had stolen the car. He asked if they would close the doors of their car so that their two dogs would not escape, but the police refused.
The dog ran outside and was seen “romping on the shoulder of the Interstate, its tale wagging. As the family yells, Patton first heads away from the road, then quickly circles back toward the family. An officer in blue uniform aims his shotgun at the dog and fires at its head, killing it immediately.”
As usual, the Police Chief issues the statement:
“I know the officer wishes that circumstances could have been different so he could have prevented shooting the dog,” Terry wrote. “It is never gratifying to have to put an animal down, especially a family pet, and the officer assures me that he never displayed any satisfaction in doing so.”
The mere fact that it must be stated to the public that a cop doesn’t get pleasure from killing a family pet shows what sort of depravity we’re willing to accept from our police forces.
This video is — like all of these videos — extremely graphic, not for the murder of an animal it depicts (which, as usual, is blurry and difficult to make out), but for the screams and wails of a family that knows their beloved friend has been killed for no reason.
Source: CNN
Ciarra
Posted: June 19, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized 1 Comment
The alarm company called Elizabeth Fletcher to tell her that her alarm had gone off. Their house-sitter had gone out for breakfast, so they called 911. Soon, they reached the sitter, who arrived at the house around the same time as the officer.
Fletcher talked to the officer over the phone, joking. He had been the same officer who had come out a few months ago when her car had been broken into. The officer said he was going to take a look around and make sure everything was safe.
Then he went into the backyard and shot Ciarra. Neighbors Ashley Derrick and Alison Grounds rushed the dog to the vet, but she couldn’t be saved. In an email to the East Lake Neighbors Community Association, Derrick wrote:
“I asked why [the officer] had to shoot her. He could give me no answer.”
Fletcher said they were speaking out for one primary reason:
“We don’t want this to happen to anyone else.”
Source: Atlanta-Journal Constitution
Bruiser
Posted: June 19, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized 3 Comments
This is a particular abhorrent example because not only did no crime take place, but the cops weren’t even under the impression that a crime had taken place. In fact, an officer had just gotten out of his car to ask for directions when Bruiser (pictured above), came running out to meet thim.
Standing a foot away from his cop car, the officer drew his pistol and shot Bruiser.
He had a ride-along with him that was actually his brother-in-law. I think he was showing off. And I think that he thought he was going to get away with it and nobody would know who shot the dog.
She also says that initially the police claimed that the dog was trying to attack him, but that when she said she’d recorded the events they changed their story, offered her money, and told her to keep quiet. The Grady County Sheriff’s Office refused to comment.
Posted: June 19, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized 2 Comments
When Andrea Hill’s 6-year-old son went missing, she called police to help with the search. They showed up, and Hill’s mom — with the confusing last name of Linda Hall (one letter off) — put the dog in a bedroom. Then, they went to look for the kid, but when they came back, Andrea had let the dog out of the bedroom.
They came to the house and promptly killed Hill’s dog, which I’m sure — somehow, perhapsholistically — helps in their search for the child.
First, the Deputy Chief’s story:
“Basically, he came out and started attacking the officer. He got to the degree where he was growling, had his mouth open trying to bite the officer. You have an officer that’s being viciously attacked by a 60-pound dog, and he had no choice.”
Now, Hall’s version of the story (from someone who was actually there):
“He opened that door and he shot the dog in the face. The dog came at his shoe, but he didn’t bite him. He didn’t hurt him. He was getting at his shoe to try to get him to leave.”
But wait, it gets worse. It turns out that Max was medically-trained to alert the family when Andrea, an epileptic, was having a seizure. A few weeks later, without the dog to alert the family, Andrea had a seizure and died. The police, of course, were sympathetic:
“We’re sorry for her death, for the destruction of the dog, but I think we reacted properly.”
Yes, “following protocol,” no doubt.
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