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I'll go ahead and post this. Cops arrest guy with camera phone & kill his dog
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Few things I wish I could unsee in life but this is one. That was a gorgeous dog hate to see it dead due to bad decisions from all parties involved. Just damn
Bad decision on the owners fault? Since when the **** is it illegal to take a video with your camera phone? The dog looked to be sniffing around and one of the officers appeared to somewhat lunge at the dog. **** the police. I'd have their ass. They didn't even try to approach the guy until after he was leaving. My dog would've done the same thing if he saw someone putting their hands on me. They don't know that it's just a 'friendly' arrest by people who are paid by our local governments to do this. Maybe it's just because I love dogs, especially the 'vicious' breeds that get a bad name.
since the police state says it was...its off topic but a slippery slope there.
im in your camp on that one. im not willing to be mauled because i like dogs. (,,,and bill of sale,,,well we aint doing that big guy)
But doesn't video taping for documentary purposes fall under the same jurisdiction as the press? or something along those lines. I don't know the law to the letter, but I believe it's something along those lines right? And what about the people that were actually taping this video?
Putting ourselves in the officers shoes, what could they have done? Approach a vehicle with a possibly vicious dog in it, open the door, find the keys, partially roll up the windows, leave him inside? That sounds like a bad idea. Allow a subject, who has not complied with requests to leave but continued to be confrontational, to approach his vehicle, enter it to secure the dog and then return to them? That sounds like a worse idea. I'm not a cop, but there is surely some protocol violated there. Especially in the type of scene they had going on there. Maybe they should have done nothing and allowed the guy to continue yelling at them and being confrontational so that he could draw more attention and possibly more onlookers closer and closer to the other officers engaged in storming the house? Then when outnumbered by an angry mob, they could have used their AR's defending themselves from a crowd of humans? Even if not attacked, they probably would have faced discipline for not securing their perimeter. I think it's a sad story, but the cops were painted into a corner by a guy who acted irresponsibly with his animal. If you're going to tell the cops off, good for you, but put your dog in your car and secure him, or better yet, take him home. Would you take your child into the street to yell at the cops?
I completely agree on that. If a dog is trying to attack me, it's dead. But I wouldn't go trying to grab a dog that I don't know. I don't mess with other friends dogs for this very reason. Many dogs that I've had were very protective of me and my family and weren't really accepting applications for new friends. To be honest, I kind of like it that way to a certain extent. I don't want someone to sneak in my house unknowingly and my dog just great them with a wagging tail.
I think that's the point. It didn't appear to be the taping that was at issue. It was the walking back and forth, yelling, being confrontational, all while holding a 100+lb dog,(any breed). If he had stood still and kept his mouth shut, we would've never seen this video because nothing would've happened.
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