Cops sued over dog shooting.............

[ojibweindian]

Gregory

It's not about the dog. It's about being treated like a felon for the crummy mistake of leaving one's wallet on the roof of a car. It's about the cops not using a modicum of common sense and checking the validity of the cell phone call.

The whole thing could have easily been avoided by pulling the Smoak's over and politely asking a few questions to clear up everything.

However, testosterone got in the way.

 

[ojibweindian]

new leaf

Ouch, that hurts.

Read my earlier posts to find out what my beef is.

 

[GregoryTech]

Gregory

It's not about the dog. It's about being treated like a felon for the crummy mistake of leaving one's wallet on the roof of a car. It's about the cops not using a modicum of common sense and checking the validity of the cell phone call.

The whole thing could have easily been avoided by pulling the Smoak's over and politely asking a few questions to clear up everything.

However, testosterone got in the way.

I don't disagree with that, but did you hear the 911 call? The woman reported that a car was speeding at 110 miles an hour with money flying out of it. So the question to me now becomes, what happened when the cops initiated the stop. Was the car traveling over a 100 miles an hour? Did they try to outrun (or going over 100 appear to be trying to outrun) to police? We don't know any of these things. And if so, perhaps it changed what could have been an investigative stop into a full felony stop.

That said, I still think it was probably a "bad" stop, and I agree with your point. But the cop that shot the dog was called in to assist another department on a felony stop and acted in a manner consistent with that knowledge, and I think not unethically given the situation as it unfolded.

 

[ojibweindian]

The lady did not have a radar gun, so her estimation of speed is a WAG. Unless, of course, she was traveling at close to 110MPH herself. Quite unlikely.

As I have said before, all of this could have easily been avoided by simply asking a few questions, not by the Gestappo-like behavior of the police.

 

[Goaltender66]

I think I figured out the source of new leaf's disconnect:

To cry more over an animal's death than a human is perverse.

Where in this thread are we crying more over the death of an animal than a human? Well, I sure don't see anything to that effect, mainly because a human didn't die in this scenario (despite the apparent best efforts of Officer Hill...notice his actions after he bravely shot Patton and note where his finger is).

The only explanation is that new leaf is talking about a different situation than the rest of us.

Goalie

 

[Preacherman]

Fellow High Roadsters, we can argue this point until the cows come home (hopefully without getting shot!). Unfortunately, we simply don't have all the evidence available to us - "trial by media" is notoriously inaccurate. I think in the interests of civility, mutual tolerance and a wish to avoid inflaming passions any further, we'll leave this discussion alone for now, and watch further developments in the courts, where they belong.

This thread is therefore closed.