Justice for Geist .. website for dog killed in his own back yard by cops - Page 2

The ref. to the Weimies reputation was in relation to the success of the CAMPAIGN

and a lot more people who are likely to protest about the shooting of a dog are

pro-dog people who do have a better idea, even if a vague one, about the merits of

different breeds / types.  Especially Ghosts, as they are so frequently used in popular

photography for Art and advertising.   Agree would have made no difference to the

cop.

How do you know a postal worker isn't carrying a gun ?  This is about America,  some

in America get Concealed Carry Permits ...  Maybe they might lose their job afterwards,

I can't say - but that would not stop some people shooting a dog that they were genuinely

afraid was attacking them, I am pretty sure.

So do I hope some awareness programme arises, post this incident - but many of us have

expressed such a hope in past incidents.  Someone always argues the PDs are too busy

& too budget-stretched.   I suspect that if it finally happens this time, it will be because

the owner was white and is sueing.

If a child is missing where do you search first .. the child was found sleeping in his own house.  The cop should have made sure the child was not in his/her own home or grounds first and foremost.  An idiot cop with a gun went into a private back yard through a latched gate and decided that a dog 30 feet away was a threat to him and shot the dog in the head.  Cops who shoot suspects in the back seat of their squad car with their hands in handcuffs behind their back should not be serving as a police officer.  Cops shooting a dog in a private yard or home after illegal entry should be fired.  The entire swat team that illegally invaded a small town Mayor's home in Maryland after planting evidence and killed his family's two Labs without reason should be demoted or fired.  Following orders never justifies doing evil!!  We hung Nazi's after WWII for following orders.

Yes, I know this is an American case.

I would say it is taboo for a mail carrier to CC. I asked a friend of mine who works at the post office, and he said none of them carry.

Bubbabooboo,

Yes, the officer was totally in the wrong for entering the backyard.

I work in EMS, and I have been on scenes for missing children. If he was the FIRST responding officer and did not throughly check the home of the missing child, yes, that is stupid. However, it seems like he came later on the scene and was just following orders to look for the child. Obviously there would be no orders to follow if they knew she was home. Although it was a crappy one, some type of "search" was done at the residence.

I guess it is hard to understand for those who haven't done it, but if you are on scene and they tell you to go search a certain area, you do it. It is of course assumed the home was already searched *properly*, which in this case it was not.

"Cops who shoot suspects in the back seat of their squad car with their hands in handcuffs behind their back should not be serving as a police officer.  Cops shooting a dog in a private yard or home after illegal entry should be fired.  The entire swat team that illegally invaded a small town Mayor's home in Maryland after planting evidence and killed his family's two Labs without reason should be demoted or fired."

I absolutely agree with that.

hntrjmpr said:  "I asked a friend who works at the post office and he said none of them carry."

Pardon my hollow laughter.   Your friend knows ALL the US postal employees, intimately ?

Hundmutter,

There are thousands of mail carriers in the US. To even make a snarky comment assuming that my friend knows all of them is ridiculous on your behalf. I was referring to my local PO, which is in a rural area in the south, which if any mail carriers CC, it would be likely this bunch.

God bless our police officers. God bless them with better training and tactics. God grant them the wisdom of Solomon. God bless the public with  respect for each other, to make the police officers' job easier. 

Yes, I agree gsdstudent.

Tired of reading comments that are clustering all LEOs as being "stupid".

Call a cop who shoots unarmed civilians or a soldier that kills civilians for sport or sex what they are .. murderers.  Both in the armed services and the police the politics and command structure has protected the guilty.  The rape rate in the military is unbelievable but the command structure made primarily of men has done nothing to single out the guilty .. many of whom use rank and male dominance to rape their victims through coercion.  The boys club in the military that allows rapists and murderers to walk free must end.  Cops who murder make our streets more dangerous as do the ones who use bad judgement in the use of weapons and vehicles when civilians can be hurt or killed.  Military officers and enlisted who allow rape and murder on the battlefield and within the ranks weaken our national security.  Stop protecting the guilty police and military members who weaken our safety and put their own comrades in harms way.  Giving a police officer who uses bad judgement a gun and a badge serves no one.  If God or any other diety wants to take sides let God protect the innocent from the killers.

hntrjmpr, perhaps you should have said that you were only talking about

one locality.  I don't think its being 'snarky' to point out that one personal

contact in an industry cannot possibly know what everybody in the field

believes they should do;   and I'm not telepathic, to know that you only

meant one area !  (I could have concluded that, then been told I was quite

wrong, as easily !)

And again, if toting guns is a bit 'taboo' among post office employees, in

general, who can say that everyone abides by that - pretty naive to think that

some people don't say one thing, but DO another.  Especially, IMO &

since you raise it, in an area with the reputation that the rural South has.

I have nothing further to say to you on this subject, which stands to take the

thred off-track.