tangent4ronpaul
01-02-2013, 08:21 PM
In the Frankford chase a day earlier, police went around 11 a.m. to a home in the 5800 block of Arizona Ave. for a report of a domestic dispute. Tavon Green, 31, who lives on the 1700 block of Latrobe Ave., told police that his former girlfriend was "disrespecting him" and had told him to leave the home, according to a police report.
After verbal spats with police, a detective told Green he was under arrest, prompting him to jump a backyard chain-link fence of a home inn the 5500 block of Bucknell Road. Police followed and found him hiding on a home's rear basement steps. An officer drew his gun.
At that time, a dog came out of the home and charged at the police officer, the report said. Police shot and killed the dog, then took Green into custody after a brief struggle.
Police said the shooting was justified.
"If the dog was aggressive towards the officers or threatened the officers or anyone else," Guglielmi said, "we have the legal right to protect the officer or anyone else and make the situation as safe as possible."
But the dog's owner, Stacy Fields, disputed the police account and said the officer used unneeded force. She said the dog only barked at the officer and didn't charge. Fields' stepfather, who followed the dog out of the home, was about to grab the dog's harness when she said the officer fired six shots, hitting the dog three times — twice in the head and once in the body.
"He very well could have shot my stepfather," she said.
The dog had just turned three, Fields said. Named Kincaid, he was a white pitbull mix with brown around his eyes and ears and white stripe running up his snout and forehead. Fields has called on police to apologize but said she hasn't received any response to her inquiries.
As of Wednesday evening, a Facebook page called "Kincaid. Killed by Baltimore City Police" that featured a bloody profile picture of the slain dog had received 3,437 likes.
"It wasn't a stray dog down the street," she said. "It was our yard."
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bs-md-ci-police-involved-shootings-20130102,0,2506251.story
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After verbal spats with police, a detective told Green he was under arrest, prompting him to jump a backyard chain-link fence of a home inn the 5500 block of Bucknell Road. Police followed and found him hiding on a home's rear basement steps. An officer drew his gun.
At that time, a dog came out of the home and charged at the police officer, the report said. Police shot and killed the dog, then took Green into custody after a brief struggle.
Police said the shooting was justified.
"If the dog was aggressive towards the officers or threatened the officers or anyone else," Guglielmi said, "we have the legal right to protect the officer or anyone else and make the situation as safe as possible."
But the dog's owner, Stacy Fields, disputed the police account and said the officer used unneeded force. She said the dog only barked at the officer and didn't charge. Fields' stepfather, who followed the dog out of the home, was about to grab the dog's harness when she said the officer fired six shots, hitting the dog three times — twice in the head and once in the body.
"He very well could have shot my stepfather," she said.
The dog had just turned three, Fields said. Named Kincaid, he was a white pitbull mix with brown around his eyes and ears and white stripe running up his snout and forehead. Fields has called on police to apologize but said she hasn't received any response to her inquiries.
As of Wednesday evening, a Facebook page called "Kincaid. Killed by Baltimore City Police" that featured a bloody profile picture of the slain dog had received 3,437 likes.
"It wasn't a stray dog down the street," she said. "It was our yard."
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bs-md-ci-police-involved-shootings-20130102,0,2506251.story
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