TN-Second Memphis cop shot by another cop that was trying to shoot dogs.

[Anti Federalist]

Memphis police officer shot in leg, non-critical

By ADRIAN SAINZ, Associated Press

Updated 4:02 pm, Tuesday, March 5, 2013

http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Memphis-police-officer-shot-in-leg-non-critical-4330588.php

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Memphis police officer was accidentally shot in the leg Tuesday when a fellow policeman opened fire on three dogs while serving a search warrant.

Officer Calvin Taylor, 45, was taken to the Regional Medical Center in non-critical condition after the 3:25 p.m. shooting, Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong said.

Members of the organized crime unit were serving a drug-related search warrant at a home when three pit bull dogs charged one of them, Armstrong said. An officer then fired at the dogs with a shotgun, striking and killing two.

Armstrong said shotgun pellets blasted through the door of the home and struck Taylor, who was maintaining a perimeter outside. Armstrong did not say which of Taylor's legs was hit, though he did describe the officer's injuries as not life-threatening.

No arrests had been made as a result of the warrant as of late Tuesday afternoon, Armstrong said.

The shooting marked the second time in four months that a policeman has been shot by a colleague who was defending himself from a dog.

Officer Willie Bryant, a 32-year-old member of a multi-jurisdictional gang unit, was critically wounded when he was shot in the back while serving a high-risk warrant Nov. 8. Bryant was struck by a shotgun blast from an officer who was aiming at an attacking dog.

Armstrong said the shootings are examples of how hazardous the process of serving a search warrant can be. Taylor is at least the 12th officer to be shot in the line of duty since Armstrong took over the department in April 2011.

"All search warrants are unpredictable," Armstrong said outside the hospital. "They are all dangerous."


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[fr33]

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[kcchiefs6465]

I definitely wouldn't go hunting with them. It's pretty much 101.

[Origanalist]

I would put this in Nirvikalpa's feel good thread but for the dogs.

[Mani]

I love how these guys are shooting each other and claiming that search warrants are too dangerous...Thus giving themselves reason to bring SWAT teams to all search warrants with body armor and such....LOL.

You know those guys shooting each other are going to be used to justify more aggressive means of better armed search warrants.


Memphis police officer shot in leg, non-critical

By ADRIAN SAINZ, Associated Press

Updated 4:02 pm, Tuesday, March 5, 2013

http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Memphis-police-officer-shot-in-leg-non-critical-4330588.php

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Memphis police officer was accidentally shot in the leg Tuesday when a fellow policeman opened fire on three dogs while serving a search warrant.

Officer Calvin Taylor, 45, was taken to the Regional Medical Center in non-critical condition after the 3:25 p.m. shooting, Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong said.

Members of the organized crime unit were serving a drug-related search warrant at a home when three pit bull dogs charged one of them, Armstrong said. An officer then fired at the dogs with a shotgun, striking and killing two.

Armstrong said shotgun pellets blasted through the door of the home and struck Taylor, who was maintaining a perimeter outside. Armstrong did not say which of Taylor's legs was hit, though he did describe the officer's injuries as not life-threatening.

No arrests had been made as a result of the warrant as of late Tuesday afternoon, Armstrong said.

The shooting marked the second time in four months that a policeman has been shot by a colleague who was defending himself from a dog.

Officer Willie Bryant, a 32-year-old member of a multi-jurisdictional gang unit, was critically wounded when he was shot in the back while serving a high-risk warrant Nov. 8. Bryant was struck by a shotgun blast from an officer who was aiming at an attacking dog.

Armstrong said the shootings are examples of how hazardous the process of serving a search warrant can be. Taylor is at least the 12th officer to be shot in the line of duty since Armstrong took over the department in April 2011.

"All search warrants are unpredictable," Armstrong said outside the hospital. "They are all dangerous."


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Memphis-police-officer-shot-in-leg-non-critical-4330588.php#ixzz2MjSGCVym

[jkr]

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[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

Memphis police officer shot in leg, non-critical

By ADRIAN SAINZ, Associated Press

Updated 4:02 pm, Tuesday, March 5, 2013

http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Memphis-police-officer-shot-in-leg-non-critical-4330588.php

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Memphis police officer was accidentally shot in the leg Tuesday when a fellow policeman opened fire on three dogs while serving a search warrant.

Officer Calvin Taylor, 45, was taken to the Regional Medical Center in non-critical condition after the 3:25 p.m. shooting, Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong said.

Members of the organized crime unit were serving a drug-related search warrant at a home when three pit bull dogs charged one of them, Armstrong said. An officer then fired at the dogs with a shotgun, striking and killing two.

Armstrong said shotgun pellets blasted through the door of the home and struck Taylor, who was maintaining a perimeter outside. Armstrong did not say which of Taylor's legs was hit, though he did describe the officer's injuries as not life-threatening.

No arrests had been made as a result of the warrant as of late Tuesday afternoon, Armstrong said.

The shooting marked the second time in four months that a policeman has been shot by a colleague who was defending himself from a dog.

Officer Willie Bryant, a 32-year-old member of a multi-jurisdictional gang unit, was critically wounded when he was shot in the back while serving a high-risk warrant Nov. 8. Bryant was struck by a shotgun blast from an officer who was aiming at an attacking dog.

Armstrong said the shootings are examples of how hazardous the process of serving a search warrant can be. Taylor is at least the 12th officer to be shot in the line of duty since Armstrong took over the department in April 2011.

"All search warrants are unpredictable," Armstrong said outside the hospital. "They are all dangerous."


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Memphis-police-officer-shot-in-leg-non-critical-4330588.php#ixzz2MjSGCVym

The best way to insure the welfare of your children is to fight for the life of your dog.

[Lafayette]

A Memphis police officer was accidentally shot in the leg Tuesday when a fellow policeman opened fire on three dogs while serving a search warrant.

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[J_White]

we need a "War of Dogs" !

[aGameOfThrones]

Members of the organized crime unit were serving a drug-related search warrant at a home when three pit bull dogs charged one of them, Armstrong said.

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Armstrong said the shootings are examples of how hazardous the process of serving a search warrant can be. Taylor is at least the 12th officer to be shot in the line of duty since Armstrong took over the department in April 2011.

"All search warrants are unpredictable," Armstrong said outside the hospital. "They are all dangerous."

But you're shooting each other. You know, not all search warrants demand a violent entrance.

[tod evans]

There are absolutely NO circumstances that justify military style service of a search warrant.

Search warrants are an evidence gathering tool, better than 90% of these armed intrusions are in the search for drugs..

What better argument to just eliminate this supposed "war" on substances?

[kathy88]

No arrests as a result of the warrant. Shocker.

[Dr.3D]

No arrests as a result of the warrant. Shocker.

They should have arrested somebody for breaking and entering and malicious destruction of dogs.

[phill4paul]

Makes me wonder if the problem couldn't be solved by rounding up a dozen strays and send them running through the local cop shop.