OK - Here's a dog /gun story for you.

Major civil action for this family...

Father cuffed???? He spoke harshly to an officer who shot his kid in the leg? Oh my goodness...
 
Yep, sounds like congress needs to ban the evil dogs. Hate to say it but if he shot my son he would have had to shoot me too.
 
I would say that if the family litigates, the city's going to come right back at them about the dog, & loss of control of same. As well as battery charges against the officers.

Too much unknown here, like the verification of the kids call to the station (not mentioned).
Who was the other party making the death threats? What's being done about that, since death threats are illegal(??) and that's what precipitated the whole thing to start with.

Sounds to me like they're living in the wrong part of the country.


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The most foolish mistake we could make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms; history shows that all conquerers who have allowed their subjected people to carry arms have prepared their own fall.
Adolf Hitler
 
Hmmmmm. Yeah, details are missing so it's hard to form a true perspective. OTOH, the article did say they were in the kid's house, dog was maybe doing his job, i.e. protecting his family, wonder if the dogs were unruly to beginwith or cops did something tocause the dog to perceive a threat?. I'm pretty comfortable with the opinion that the rookie is an idiot, though.
M2
 
Here in Texas, the fact that you had a right to shoot at the dog does NOT relieve you of liability (criminal or civil) for hitting a by-stander. Dunno what Cali laws are like on that point.

Observations: <UL TYPE=SQUARE>

[1]Our rookie needs to be relieved of his badge. He clearly panicked and lost all sense of judgement when the doggie went ape.Specifically, he: (a)Fired without being certain of his backstop (boy behind dog). (b)Shot at the head, apparently, of a dog attatched to his FTO, and MISSED. Bad target choice, and, obviously, bad shooting. (c)Used a pistol in a situation that any decently-trained cop should have been able to resolve with an ASP baton or PR-24 nightstick, were they available {dunno if they were in fact available to him. But don't you think that in politically-correct San Francisco they had some intermediate-force weapon available?}.

[2]Our FTO had completely lost control of the situation.

[3]Responding officers pannicked when kid's dad, understandably, went ballistic. Dunno about you, but I'd do anything and everything to keep the dad out of handcuffs. Yes, you put them in for his own safety if you're absolutely certain that he's about to hit someone, but sheesh, it shouldn't come to that.</UL>


Carrying deadly force is a responsibility. Merely having the opportunity to weild it does not merit the mindless projection of it. This cop should, reasonably, be charged with assault through negligence, or some such. Here in TX, you're guilty of assault if you intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly cause bodily injury to another. I'd have to say that this was reckless.

Reckless endangerment might be more appropriate, though.

L.P.
 
San Antonio did another innocent doggie shoot, I half listened to it on the raving old
geezer conservative talk show (what does that say about me that I listen to it :) ).

Cops look for a women known to be dealing.
No-knock a joint where she ain't at the time.
Kid's dog freaks. Family begs - don't shoot
Bowser. BOOM BOOM.

Weirdest thing was that it was claimed that one officer picked up a guitar and composed an impromptu song about shooting the dog.

What actually happened is now in dispute. It was a nice change though from the UN invasion plans.
 
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