Officer to be Charged / Killied Dog in Dog Park - Page 1

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YES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Wait... the dog ran up and looked like he was going to attack the guy and his dog, so how is he in the wrong for shooting it?  I'm just asking.  One of my clients, who is an officer, was walking her small dog outside and a big dog ran up (no owner in sight) and she shot and killed it, she was not charged with anything.  She did not know if the dog would attack her or her dog, so she defended herself.

This was in a dog park, where the officer and his wife entered seeing dogs off leash.  Also the huskie's owner was right there but given no time to retrieve the dog before the officer pulled his weapon and discharged it in the park.

Also the officer had his dog on leash, the two dogs started to play, the play got rough, the officer felt the husky was 'attacking' and shot it.

Ok, thanks for clarifying- the article posted was quite short and didn't have much explaination.  Damn trigger happy cops.

Hopefully a lesson learned.

Dober -- Sorry, the background of this case had been previously posted.  

Also, the Officer's dog had no bite marks on it, nor did the Officer.   The Husky was a "regular" in the Dog Park -- never any problems before.  Very friendly dog / very good w/ kids.  

The police originally closed out the case without an investigation.  However, an Official of the County heard about it and demanded a full investigation.....this Officer needs to be stripped of his Badge / fired IMO.

If that happened to my dog in an off leash area, I'd likely end up shot too. I'd at least end up in jail for a while. Everyone in that park should sue the shit out of that moron for discharging his gun in their proximity.

mtndawg...I'm right there with you!  Good grief!

 

Hey Maggie!

Thanks for the follow-up on this tragic event.  Obviously the biggest loser in that event was Bear Bear, who lost his life.  From what I had previously been able to learn about what actually transpired in the Dog Park that day I thought that the off-duty policeman had made a very bad judgement call when he shot Bear Bear.  I do not know how an event like this might affect his career in Law Enforcement but I imagine that it would not be positive.  Everybody loses in this situation.  Just a reminder to us all to be very clear-headed with firearms.  There are no "do-overs" once a firearm is discharged.

SteveO

PS

I just did a search and came upon a webpage from The Baltimore Sun that has a long series of articles on this story.  Since I don't have the computer skills of a five year old you'll just have to cut and paste this URL if you would like to read up on this!

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/features/mutts/blog/bearbear/