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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAn officer was called to help a blind, deaf dog. He shot him instead.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/24/missouri-police-kill-blind-dog/Free archived link: https://archive.ph/rQbun
He was lost. But the stranger gave him water. He licked her hand and leg, spending the next 45 minutes of the sunny Sunday lolling in the expansive Sturgeon, Mo., yard.
Then a police officer pulled up. Within minutes, he had fired two shots. Teddy, a beloved 5-year-old pet, was left lifeless. His owner, 35-year-old Nick Hunter, found out through a phone call that his playful, sock-eating dog had been killed.
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Sturgeon police officer Myron Woodson initially told Hunter he was not worried about the dog harming him or anyone else, and instead thought Teddy was an injured stray that needed to be put down. But on Monday, in a move some residents viewed as twisting reality to skirt accountability, the city released a statement alleging the officer feared the dog could have had a disease.
Protecting and serving. FTP.
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electric_blue68
(15,421 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,368 posts)electric_blue68
(15,421 posts)reACTIONary
(5,824 posts)... an animal control officer would have been able to take care of that situation in a humane manner, and the dog would probably gotten back to its owner.
rsdsharp
(9,371 posts)and then took off before the owner arrived. His blue line gang brothers who had remained on the scene wanted the owners name and birth date.
So they could run him for warrants! After they shot his dog that was minding its own business in a fenced yard. 😡😤
ProfessorGAC
(66,213 posts)Lame excuse from the department.
ZonkerHarris
(24,479 posts)ProfessorGAC
(66,213 posts)I'm sure we could concoct a litany of appropriate pejorative descriptors for this guy.
Girard442
(6,142 posts)Now they avoid inconveniences too.
captain queeg
(10,678 posts)Of course when they are facing real danger its a different story, like the TX cops 2 yrs ago.
NanaCat
(2,332 posts)And start demanding accountability of them by voting out their political enablers. Start with the GQP traitors. The fewer of them in office, the more likely we'll get a handle on rogue pigs.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,782 posts)![](/emoticons/cry.gif)
SoFlaBro
(2,330 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(11,782 posts)He murdered a helpless little dog.
SoFlaBro
(2,330 posts)Civilian fucking oversight for all law enforcement entities with the ability to discipline officers including and up to termination.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,782 posts)There's no defense for this.
SoFlaBro
(2,330 posts)Disaffected
(4,656 posts)Where do they dig up such cretins??
NanaCat
(2,332 posts)The American people.
They didn't poof into existence out of nowhere. They are the product of what this country churns out every second of every day from their homes, churches, schools and culture.
lame54
(35,509 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(147,623 posts)LiberalFighter
(52,190 posts)Old Crank
(3,875 posts)She will send him a comendation.
chouchou
(792 posts)"Sorry mister, just face it...your mother wasn't much good for anything anyway." Grrrrrrrr...
Yeah, that's an exaggeration but many people have pets that ARE Family.
JustAnotherGen
(32,354 posts)Devastated
OMGWTF
(4,074 posts)Too many psychopaths on the police force.
Diraven
(607 posts)There are so many stories like this. Basically they do it because they know cops never get in trouble for it. Sometimes their department has to pay the cost of the dog and that's it.
Emile
(24,405 posts)If it's above room temperature, they're usually refused admittance to the police training academy.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,745 posts)hadEnuf
(2,326 posts)Just sayin'....
NanaCat
(2,332 posts)hadEnuf
(2,326 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,745 posts)niyad
(115,080 posts)they deserve.
A visit frim Anubis may be in order.
chowder66
(9,245 posts)I'm soooooooo sick of nothing being done about bad cops and those that cover for them just like the churches covering for their pedophile priests.
SpankMe
(3,010 posts)This should be a campaign vignette for Dems.
CCExile
(491 posts)can tell when somebody is just "wrong".
NanaCat
(2,332 posts)Plenty of them love dogs. Every right-wing traitor in my neighbourhood is a dog owner.
No exceptions.
red dog 1
(28,196 posts)The most disgusting thing about this incident is the city's reaction to one of their police officers' shooting a friendly, innocent little dog, (who happened to be blind, deaf and lost).
"The city said Thursday that after reviewing the incident, it determined that (Officer) Woodson acted appropriately. Neither the city nor the police department responded to the Washington Post's questions about why the officer used deadly force."
"He acted appropriately"??
I don't think so!
The Wizard
(12,616 posts)The official record says "acted appropriately." Uniform worship is a danger to civil society.
XanaDUer2
(11,180 posts)Fla Dem
(24,300 posts)Should have checked to see if the dog had an ID on his collar or taken him to a vet to have him scanned for a chip. Just pulling out his pistol and killing a defenseless dog is brutally uncaring and reckless.
red dog 1
(28,196 posts)(Teddy's collar probably slipped off when he followed the other dog, Gizmo, who had dug a hole under the fence)
AnrothElf
(923 posts)I wouldn't call the cops if a cop was killing a cop in my bathroom.
I'd run for my life.
Javaman
(62,609 posts)This kind of fucked up insanity will continue
I hope the fuck is fired and has to eat dog food to survive
Progressive dog
(6,945 posts)for Sick POS Myron.
Evolve Dammit
(17,187 posts)The more I see of "people" the more I love my dog.
cab67
(3,060 posts)...there are far more humane ways to euthanize an animal than a gunshot.
If I was this officer, I'd avoid visiting local restaurants for a long time. I can guarantee anything sent to his table will include the chef's saliva. It would include mine if I was there.
cab67
(3,060 posts)If this happened in front of the person who fed the dog, that person should sue the officer and the whole department. It would have been traumatizing and a defining moment in that person's life.
wendyb-NC
(3,424 posts)Poor dog, poor owners. That officer is a heartless coward. What an upsetting, unnecessary situation.
MacKasey
(1,014 posts)Why didn't he call animal control
Or take to a vet
vanlassie
(5,735 posts)The guys a sociopath.
SamKnause
(13,206 posts)Do you look up to cops and think they are heroes ???
I find them to be evil.
There is no situation that cops can't make worse.
They are not peacekeepers.
They don't protect us.
They only care about their safety.
They are trained liars.
They lie to cover for one another's crimes.
They deserve zero respect.
They have earned zero respect from me.
They make the roads unsafe to travel.
They are road pirates and they kill people over simple traffic stops.
They kill people sleeping in their homes.
Do you feel safer ?????????????
Iggo
(47,736 posts)TexasDem69
(2,103 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,745 posts)PlutosHeart
(1,370 posts)cops pulling up and shooting dogs in the name of X45Yeti?
Celerity
(44,589 posts)Turbineguy
(37,576 posts)Like everything else.
Iggo
(47,736 posts)Just like every gunfucker Ive ever met.
Every single one.
VMA131Marine
(4,196 posts)When the only tool you have is a gun
Everything is a target 🎯
maspaha
(288 posts)NWA has been right all along.
More protest music please.
LudwigPastorius
(9,530 posts)DFW
(54,937 posts)Is she, by any chance, the governor of South Dakota?
lark
(23,382 posts)They are not our friends and in too many cases are rw assholes who are so dangerous.