Anti Federalist
09-06-2011, 10:22 PM
Just another puppycide in the empire, but a comment from one of the sources reporting on it was telling, I thought:
"The owner did make a mistake, however I think it’s wrong for an officer to go on to someone’s property and shoot their dog on their front steps," Elsts said. "Any witnesses would have been traumatized."
"What scares me is if an officer responds to a call at my house, are they going to use lethal weapons against my pets?"
http://annandale.patch.com/articles/fairfax-county-police-officer-shoots-dog-in-parklawn-neighborhood
Even the non awakened mundanes are starting to get the picture. Yes, lady, you should be scared and yes, cops that show up at your house and feel the slightest bit threatened by your animals, will shoot them.
So what have we learned, Miss Elsts?
That's right: don't call the cops.
Police shoot dog in Parklawn
Friday, September 2, 2011
http://annandaleva.blogspot.com/2011/09/police-shoot-pit-bull-in-parklawn.html
Residents of the Parklawn neighborhood who had repeatedly complained about a loose pit bull needn’t worry any more – Fairfax County police officers shot and killed the dog this morning while the owner, Tom Tomlo of Everglade Drive, was at work.
Lucy Caldwell, a spokesperson with Animal Control, says the department received a call this morning about a loose dog, and when police officers arrived, the dog charged, so an officer shot it.
Tomlo heard about the incident from a neighbor and rushed home. When he got there, he found “three or four police cars and a caravan in front of my house and my dog lying on the front porch with a bullet in his head.”
An officer said “your dog has been out of control,” Tomlo recalls. “I said ‘you are approaching this the wrong way.’ Someone shot my dog and you’re questioning me.’ This is a crime.”
Tomlo has had the dog, named Crash, since he found him as a four-week-old puppy on a parking lot in Alabama about eight years ago. “He was the best dog I’ve ever had. He was very gentle, very intelligent,” he says.
Crash was not a pit bull, he says. “He was a mutt mixed with several breeds. He had characteristics that made him resemble a pit.” And many people in the neighborhood thought he was one.
Tomlo acknowledged that Crash has repeatedly run off, but he says he had fixed his fence and wasn’t aware that Crash had gotten loose again. “He never attacked or bit anyone,” he says, although “he would bark if someone walked up to him.”
“They said the dog was aggressive and the officer felt threatened,” Tomlo says. “The dog was on the front porch, and he felt threatened when the officer approached. . . . Any animal would have reacted that way.”
“If my dog was preventing the cops from investigating a crime or was on the neighbor’s property, I would totally understand what happened,” he says. “But he was 10 feet from my front steps.”
“He was part of my family. There was no justification for shooting him,” says Tomlo, who was still coming to terms with the loss of his pet. “They took the dog corpse for an autopsy. I don’t know why as it’s pretty obvious he was shot in the head. I hadn’t even had a chance to say goodbye.”
"The owner did make a mistake, however I think it’s wrong for an officer to go on to someone’s property and shoot their dog on their front steps," Elsts said. "Any witnesses would have been traumatized."
"What scares me is if an officer responds to a call at my house, are they going to use lethal weapons against my pets?"
http://annandale.patch.com/articles/fairfax-county-police-officer-shoots-dog-in-parklawn-neighborhood
Even the non awakened mundanes are starting to get the picture. Yes, lady, you should be scared and yes, cops that show up at your house and feel the slightest bit threatened by your animals, will shoot them.
So what have we learned, Miss Elsts?
That's right: don't call the cops.
Police shoot dog in Parklawn
Friday, September 2, 2011
http://annandaleva.blogspot.com/2011/09/police-shoot-pit-bull-in-parklawn.html
Residents of the Parklawn neighborhood who had repeatedly complained about a loose pit bull needn’t worry any more – Fairfax County police officers shot and killed the dog this morning while the owner, Tom Tomlo of Everglade Drive, was at work.
Lucy Caldwell, a spokesperson with Animal Control, says the department received a call this morning about a loose dog, and when police officers arrived, the dog charged, so an officer shot it.
Tomlo heard about the incident from a neighbor and rushed home. When he got there, he found “three or four police cars and a caravan in front of my house and my dog lying on the front porch with a bullet in his head.”
An officer said “your dog has been out of control,” Tomlo recalls. “I said ‘you are approaching this the wrong way.’ Someone shot my dog and you’re questioning me.’ This is a crime.”
Tomlo has had the dog, named Crash, since he found him as a four-week-old puppy on a parking lot in Alabama about eight years ago. “He was the best dog I’ve ever had. He was very gentle, very intelligent,” he says.
Crash was not a pit bull, he says. “He was a mutt mixed with several breeds. He had characteristics that made him resemble a pit.” And many people in the neighborhood thought he was one.
Tomlo acknowledged that Crash has repeatedly run off, but he says he had fixed his fence and wasn’t aware that Crash had gotten loose again. “He never attacked or bit anyone,” he says, although “he would bark if someone walked up to him.”
“They said the dog was aggressive and the officer felt threatened,” Tomlo says. “The dog was on the front porch, and he felt threatened when the officer approached. . . . Any animal would have reacted that way.”
“If my dog was preventing the cops from investigating a crime or was on the neighbor’s property, I would totally understand what happened,” he says. “But he was 10 feet from my front steps.”
“He was part of my family. There was no justification for shooting him,” says Tomlo, who was still coming to terms with the loss of his pet. “They took the dog corpse for an autopsy. I don’t know why as it’s pretty obvious he was shot in the head. I hadn’t even had a chance to say goodbye.”