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Cop Dog Killers: Cop Tries to Shoot Dog, Ends Up Shooting Himself
Cop Dog Killers: Cop Tries to Shoot Dog, Ends Up Shooting Himself: Adan Salazar A California sheriff’s deputy is feeling the sting of humiliation after he attempted to shoot a fenced-in dog, but failed,...
Cop Dog Killers: Sicko cop shoots Texas man’s dog on sight
Cop Dog Killers: Sicko cop shoots Texas man’s dog on sight: An East Texas man is sad and furious after a sheriff’s deputy shot his dog, Candy, without provocation. The shot did not kill the dog i...
Sicko cop shoots Texas man’s dog on sight
An
East Texas man is sad and furious after a sheriff’s deputy shot his dog, Candy,
without provocation.
The
shot did not kill the dog instantaneously. The man, Cole Middleton of Rains
County, Texas, was forced to put Candy out of her misery with his own bare
hands.
Middleton
owns a dairy farm, and Candy was his cattle-herding dog, according to KLTV 7.
The
officer came to the house in response to Middleton’s 911 call. Middleton made
the call around 11:00 AM, after returning to his home and finding it robbed.
Middleton was in his fields when the officer showed up. He was hurrying back to
the house when the deputy shot Candy.
According
to Middleton, the shooting was baseless. Candy did not bite or threaten the
officer.
“She’s
barking when he pulls into the driveway letting me know someone’s at our house,
an intruder is here, or a person who she would think was an intruder that she’s
unfamiliar with,” he said. “She’s barking. The officer gets out of his car, and
all the while we’re headed up [there]. He gets out of his car and shoots my dog
in my front yard.”
Though
shot in the head, Candy did not die immediately. Middleton had no gun of his
own — his weapons were stolen — and tearfully begged the deputy to put down the
dog. The deputy refused.
“And
then I had to do the unthinkable, the otherwise unthinkable,” he said. “I had
to kill my dog with my bare hands and put her out of her suffering, praying for
this to be over with.”
Other
officers soon appeared at the farm, tasers and pistols drawn. They demanded to
know whose blood was all over Middleton’s shirt.
“That
is the blood of my dog that I was holding because this deputy pulled up and
shot her in my yard,” he told them.
Cop Tries to Shoot Dog, Ends Up Shooting Himself
Adan
Salazar
A
California sheriff’s deputy is feeling the sting of humiliation after he
attempted to shoot a fenced-in dog, but failed, succeeding only in shooting
himself.
The
deputy, who works with the Riverside County Court Services Division, was
reportedly serving an eviction notice at a Riverside home on Wednesday at
around 2p.m. when a “large dog” approached him.
Police
say the pit bull, who can be seen in footage shot by Los Angeles NBC affiliate
KNBC being playful and friendly with several children, attacked the officer,
forcing him to draw his weapon.
“A
large pit bull breed dog attacked the deputy,” an investigator told KNBC. “In
defense of himself, he fired one round at the dog and inadvertently struck
himself in the leg.”
The
dog’s owner, Jorge Rodriguez, says his dog never attacked.
“The
officer got scared and unfortunately pulled his gun and he shot himself,”
Rodriguez says. “He was in pain, man, I feel sorry for the officer.”
The
officer sustained non-life threatening injuries and is being treated at the
Riverside Community hospital.
Reports
say the Department of Animal Services won’t take action against the dog as she
was legally within a fenced enclosure. No word on whether the officer will be
investigated for mishandling his firearm.
Alabama Cop Shoots Two Family Dogs, Kills One And Injures Second
By Khier Casino
An Alabama police officer shot
two dogs, killing one and injuring a second, after entering a closed backyard
while searching for trespassers.
Mark and Lynn Yeager, of
Mobile, Ala., buried one of their dogs after seeing the officer shoot him in
their yard, FOX10tv.com reports.
“I understand that they’re
trying to do their job. My dog was trying to do his job and there has to be a
happy medium,” said Mark Yeager. “I don’t think they used good common sense.”
According to police, officials
apprehended two individuals near Murphy High School who ultimately fled.
Officers say they were pursuing the suspects and eventually went into the
Yeager’s yard, awakening the two pets who they say were aggressive toward the
officers.
“I saw the policeman backing up
with his gun pointed – heard two shots,” said Yeager. “I went ballistic. I mean
I couldn’t believe it. He lay there about 15 minutes and I sat there and petted
him and talked to him till he died.”
Kevin Kelly has been identified
as the Mobile Police Department officer who fatally shot the homeowner’s dog,
according to LagniappeMobile.com.
Mobile police and Internal
Affairs both responded, and investigations are being conducted into the
shooting of Yeager’s dogs.
The other dog, Bovidea, was
shot in the ear. The Yeager’s are focusing on the surviving dog’s recovery.
"Common sense will tell
you to knock on the door of the residence and let them know that there was some
people running around that could be dangerous. If they had done that then at
that point in time I would have told them never to come into my backyard or I
could've got the dogs inside where they belong in their kennels, and everything
would have been fine," Yeager told local CBS affiliate WKRG-TV.
The Yeagers are not happy with
what police are telling them and they are left with questions they want
answered. They intend to write a letter to the city councilman and the Mobile
Police Chief.
According to FOX10 News, police
eventually arrested the suspects.
Friend says police shooting of dogs unwarranted
By B.J. Williams Editor
Phantom is the 2-year-old male
dog shot and killed Monday by Toccoa police
TOCCOA - A Lavonia woman who is
a part-owner of one of the dogs shot and killed by Toccoa police on Monday said
the shooting of the animals was uncalled for.
Cindy Smith said in an
interview Thursday the two dogs - who were pit bulls - were gentle animals. She
and her husband breed pit bulls, and have done so for about 15 years, and she
said the young dogs killed Monday were two that she had raised from pups.
She believes the only reason
Phantom, the male dog, and Tsunami, the female, attacked a neighbor's dog was
because the smaller animal came onto an enclosed front porch where the pit
bulls lived. Smith said she knows the dogs were in a secured area at the time
of the incident.
"Their front porch has a
railing around it as well as a gate on the front porch that has to be opened
from the inside," said Smith. "The neighbor's dog, who was not
contained - and he does not have a fence - his dog wandered onto their property
onto the porch...and it was eating their dogs' food."
Thus, said Smith, the two pit
bulls protected their property.
Smith said when her friend,
whom she chose not to name, arrived home for lunch, Toccoa police had already
shot and killed both dogs. Smith said she thinks the officers overreacted.
"They [the police] should
have sat in their car because the dogs were on their property. They should have
waited until the owners got home to take care of the matter instead of shooting
the dogs."
Toccoa Police Chief Tim Jarrell
said in a statement that the officers fired on the two dogs when the animals
failed to respond to voice commands to stop attacking the smaller dog. He said
the officers reported the two animals charged at them. (See link to earlier
story below.)
The owners of Phantom and
Tsunami face several charges from animal control officers, and Smith said she
doesn't feel that's fair, especially since the owner of the smaller dog that
wandered onto the porch faces no charges for his pet roaming free.
"I feel like they [police]
shot because of what they are [pit bulls]," said Smith. "If it had
been a lab or a retriever or any other kind of breed, I think they would have
done anything in their power to not have to shoot the animals."
Smith said she isn't sure if
her friends will try to register any kind of complaint against the Toccoa
Police Department, but she said her goal in speaking out was simply to tell the
other side of the story. She said if her friends do wind up going to court, she
plans to organize a rally to support them.
"If and when they have a
court date, if these charges do not get dropped...I'm hoping to get enough
people to come to the courthouse with their pit bulls to do kind of like a
peaceful protest to raise awareness that these dogs are being portrayed as
something they're not."
Family says El Paso police officer shoots their three-legged dog
By: Stacey Welsh
EL PASO, Texas -- An east El
Paso family said an officer from the El Paso Police Department shot their pit
bull when responding to their home last week.
Owner Deborah Hawthorne said
she doesn't understand why an officer would shoot at her dog, Gracie, because
she was already missing a leg after being hit by a car. Gracie did survive the
shooting.
"She's handicapped. She's
not a threat. She can't charge really. She never has charged," Hawthorne
said.
Hawthorne said this all started
when her husband got into an argument with someone else earlier that night.
Because she said her husband was holding a knife, that person reported it to
the police.
She said she is also upset the
shooting happened in front of her 11-year-old daughter.
"When [the police officer]
discharged that weapon, it ricochet off the concrete and the house. It almost
went through my daughter's legs. It was right there at the door so she could
have been hit," Hawthorne said.
Hawthorne said two officers
responded to her home, and one fired at Gracie. The shot hit her in her only
back paw.
"I saw the officer in the
yard. He was off in an angle to the house in the shadows. I saw a flash and the
smoke come up and that's when I saw Gracie crawling toward me," Hawthorne
said.
She also said the officers did
not identify themselves.
"I asked them at least
five times what their names were and what their badge numbers were. They did
not talk to me. They refused to tell me anything about my husband,"
Hawthorne said.
The El Paso Police Department
said it won't comment on the case now because it's still under investigation.
"As in all cases where an
El Paso police officer discharges their weapon, these cases are thoroughly
investigated by the Department’s Shooting Review Team. This case is assigned to
the Internal Affairs Division," El Paso Police Department spokesman
Detective Darrel Petry said in a statement.
Hawthorne said she also plans
to file charges against the Police Department.
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Family outraged after Boise police officer shoots and kills dog
For years, Gabrielle Stropkai found companionship in her dog, Kita, calling her a lover and a friend for her son Hayden to grow up with.
“We have kids who run up and pull her tail and grab her by the back of the neck and get in her face and she does nothing but love on them,” said Stropkai.
However, as two Boise patrol officers were investigating a theft that was reported in the area of Woodlawn and 28th Sunday afternoon they felt threatened by Kita.
According to Boise police spokesman, Charles McClure, Kita began running toward them and the officers felt forced to protect themselves.
Neighbors, like Bryan Adams were outside at that time and saw it happen.
Stropkai tells KTVB she let Kita outside to use the bathroom and she was in her sight when the officer made an instant decision.
“In about five seconds he pulled his weapon, asked whose dog it was, and shot her in the back of the head,” said Stropkai.
Stropkai explains her two year old son Hayden was also witness to the shooting.
“Hayden was outside, about two feet away from me,” said Stropkai's mother, Michelle Pierott.
McClure said the two officers were standing in a parking lot when one decided to fire a single shot at the dog when it came within three feet of them.
Kita, a mixed breed, was hit and died at the scene.
“By the time I came out she was down, (I) ran over and looked back and said you just shot her,” said Pierott. “Kita wouldn't have attacked.”
Dog found shot, left for dead was euthanized
A dog found shot and left for dead in a field in East St. Louis on Wednesday
was euthanized Thursday afternoon by St. Clair County Animal Control.
According to witnesses, the
black-and-white pit bull mix named Domino was shot by an East St. Louis police
officer Tuesday while responding to a call for an eight-year-old boy that had
been bitten by the dog.
The boy reportedly had been
pelting the dog with rocks.
Domino was rushed to a St.
Louis animal hospital by Gateway Pet Guardians, who by law had to turn the dog
over to St. Clair County Animal Control, which has jurisdiction in bite cases.
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