Dog get's shot by police *WARNING* may upset alot of viewers.

[Buizel91]

I honestly do not believe these policeman, according to a site i originally found the video on, the police shot it because it was a threat to them...yeh, whatever. The dog is not a threat whatsoever, sure it looks like it doesn't want to be caught, but that's completely normal in a seemingly stray dog.


The video is quite long...the dog first gets shot at 5:30, then again just a little bit after.

This video has really angered me and i hope they got fired

Your thoughts?

This is a video showing the dog before he got shot. The cops walk up to and pet the dog without being threatened


Thank you to Kukakkau for posting this.

http://www.hannibal.net/news/x1600620381/LaGrange-dog-owner-vows-to-fight-for-law-changes

Then their is this article for the people who need even MORE proof -.- Thanks to mindlesspuppet for posting this.

 

[SturmDolch]

What the fuck?

Save the ammunition for the douchebags running around breaking the law, not some harmless dog. He wasn't even doing anything right before they shot him. Use a tranquilizer or something... Like, come on.

I hate animal cruelty. It's something the weak do to feel powerful about themselves. Seeing police do it is even worse, because they're supposed to protect the innocent.

 

[Buizel91]

Glad to see the forum is not jumping to conclusions here. /sarcasm

For all we know that dog was rabid and had killed a child in the neighborhood.

Considering it is chained up on a nearby car i highly doubt it.

 

[drbarno]

3 things bother me with this video:

first, no sound. without that, I cannot deem how much of a threat the dog might have been (it might have had a really threating growl that might have caused them to panic.

second, it might not have been a stray, from what I had seen, it looked like it was tied up to the car, possibly by the owner.

third, why shoot the dog after you caught it! it just seems wasteful in my eyes.

 

[DeadlyYellow]

Glad to see the forum is not jumping to conclusions here. /sarcasm

For all we know that dog was rabid and had killed a child in the neighborhood.

Indeed. The video is a bit confusing though. The dog is not stray, and apparently chained to the truck. There is barely any real context to work on.

Besides, is it crueler to shoot it or leave it to rot in a cage in a shelter?

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

Not enough information here to truly judge, so I'll just make a joke.

Kind of a dick. He could have at least given it a running start!

 

[Buizel91]

This is what happens when you abandon animals... police are called, and if the animal is violent, it gets put down.

If you don't think that animal was a threat, I don't think you know much about dogs. Watch the video again, after he gets the collar stick on him. That is a violent animal that posed a threat.

It was trying to get away :S if you had a big stick attached to your neck you would of done the same. it could of easily been frightened, most abandoned dogs are afraid of humans because of what they have been put threw

Plus just before they shot it, it stopped trying to escape, and just stood there (at that point they could of walked it closer to the van), if it was violent I'm sure it would of tried to attack the officer at the point, but it didn't.

 

[SturmDolch]

I could post a video of a serial rapist getting shot by police and leave the comment: 'homeless man offends cop - is shot dead' and, considering how quick everyone here is to blindly follow in suit, you'd believe it.

Silly.

To make that situation parallel to this one, the rapist would have to be handcuffed to a pole, then executed by the police officer. I don't think that video would go over well at all.

 

[Woodsey]

Glad to see the forum is not jumping to conclusions here. /sarcasm

For all we know that dog was rabid and had killed a child in the neighborhood.

Considering it is chained up on a nearby car i highly doubt it.

You doubt it, you don't know it.

A 6 minute (silent) clip posted by a user in support of people who fight animal cruelty (a noble cause admittedly), with no context given, in the middle of a street in broad daylight - with several officers around.

It's not exactly convincing me yet. Don't get me wrong, I don't want the animal shot and I'd much rather it hadn't been, but forgive me for not simply assuming that a group of police officers are so vindictive as to kill a harmless animal.

 

[Buizel91]

Considering it is chained up on a nearby car i highly doubt it.

Tell me: where was the dog prior to this?.

I'm guessing chained up to the car?

If it was violent then i doubt it would be chained up to anything, you ever tried chaining a highly aggressive dog to a car?

 

[mb16]

(none sarcastic) yay police

 

[Snarky Username]

Considering it is chained up on a nearby car i highly doubt it.

Tell me: where was the dog prior to this? What is the dog's history? Who is the dog's owner? What were the police officers saying to one another?

Oh yeah, that's right, you don't know.

Informed opinions are the way to go. Regurgitating hate you found posted on the internet is a sure-fire way to live a misinformed life.

I could post a video of a serial rapist getting shot by police and leave the comment: 'homeless man offends cop - is shot dead' and, considering how quick everyone here is to blindly follow in suit, you'd believe it.

Silly.

It's like you're assuming that just because he's a serial rapist automatically makes it ok to murder him...

If the dog was rabid, there's no way someone could tie him to the truck, and if the police were just there to kill him, why didn't they just shoot him while he was already chained to the truck?

 

[Fatal Impulse]

Look at the way the officer who killed the dog moves after he does the deed, he's clearly angry at something, and if I'd have to guess, he really didn't want to shoot that dog.

This clip is sad, but there's too many things unknown here to make me outraged or upset, if the dog was beaten or dragged to death, that'd be one thing, but here....I don't know man.

 

[Diligent]

Hate to burst your bubble here, but the dog pound is not a magic place made of butterflies and roses.
Most strays are killed anyway.

The police definitely had a reason we don't know about and can't infer from the video for killing the dog. Discharging your weapon for any reason as a police officer is a BIG DEAL, and it's not something that most would do on a whim.

 

[Lionsfan]

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That doesn't really have any use at all with this. Like some of the people have said the video provided doesn't show any context for the dog. We don't know the circumstances of what happened.