I think everyone needs to see this.

[Alexandru]

yeahhh mate roll hard !!!

[bryan3976]

if it was my dog i would of hit the cop

[Dudermagee]

Like I said on the first page
Last I heard this cop was on forced leave and was under investigation for possible charges.
Now that doesn't usually indicate wrong doing for a normal citizen but for a cop that means the shit just hit the fan for this guy.

[Kielan]

How anyone can advocate for throwing the dog down the stairs is beyond me. I can understand shooting it more than throwing it down some fucking stairs. Come on now.

[Matth3w]

Every eyewitness report says that the dog never charged back up the stairs. That it got up and was stunned by the fall. So you're going to believe ONE police report over multiple witnesses just because it's a cop writing it.

And it's obvious by the picture that the dog was already retained, so why would it be necessary to murder it?

Once again, throwing the dog down stairs and then shooting it MULTIPLE times was in no way the right way to handle this, or any other situation. One shot to a dog is enough to put it down in the event that it is proposing great danger to other people.

[firelizard3]

I don't care how unpredictable an animal is. There is NO excuse for actions like this. Throwing a dog down a flight of stairs and then shooting it multiple times because it barked at another dog?

That's not what happened according to the report. The report says the dog was biting, and charged back up the stairs.

You can't be serious dude. Even if it was posing a serious danger, this still wouldn't be the correct way to handle it.

Well, yeah, it pretty much would be. Mace won't stop a dog that is set on attacking, and it would have been put down afterwards anyways.

Also, why is an police report supposed to be any more believable than an eye whiteness report?

It's not. Nor should it be less, that's my point.

I'm not saying what did or did not happen, or if either was right. But hardly anybody is being objective about it.

[NerdCore]

how about all those zoo animals that were killed? 20+ animals, including lions and other big cats, just shot, beause the owner set them free before killing himself

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That happened about 20 min. south of me. So sad, I am a bleeding heart animal lover and ***** to see that. I heard that a lion was running towards a cop and the cop unloaded 2 clips on it. The lion died 7 feet from him. All here say but in that situation I'd shoot it too. A giraffe though, not so much.

Jack Hanna was PISSED he wanted to round up them all and take them to the Zoo with him. But you gotta do what you gotta do I guess, no one wants a 50 dangerous animals running around.

[Matth3w]

What's obvious? A mixed up bunch of stories from people who saw part of the event.

I'm playing devil's advocate here, but why do none of you believe the police report over the eye witness stories? They're equally valid to someone who was not there at all and has no idea what really happened. The police report sounds perfectly believable behaviour for an excited (not necessarily dangerous, but you never know) dog. I have to deal with other peoples' animals at work on an almost daily basis, and they are not predictable, so you can't take chances.



Also, one article said Parrot was a shar-pei mix (which it definitely looks more like) not a pure pit bull. I doubt that had much to do with anything anyways.

I don't care how unpredictable an animal is. There is NO excuse for actions like this. Throwing a dog down a flight of stairs and then shooting it multiple times because it barked at another dog? You can't be serious dude. Even if it was posing a serious danger, this still wouldn't be the correct way to handle it.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that a cop would perform these actions when you hear about every day people doing dumb shit all the time? Also, why is an police report supposed to be any more believable than an eye whiteness report? Isn't that why whitenesses are used in trials every day?

[firelizard3]

This. Obviously the cop did something very wrong here and there is some truth to the story. He def should be punished, but I just cannot believe that someone would take this dramatic of actions on a dog that was barking.

What's obvious? A mixed up bunch of stories from people who saw part of the event.

I'm playing devil's advocate here, but why do none of you believe the police report over the eye witness stories? They're equally valid to someone who was not there at all and has no idea what really happened. The police report sounds perfectly believable behaviour for an excited (not necessarily dangerous, but you never know) dog. I have to deal with other peoples' animals at work on an almost daily basis, and they are not predictable, so you can't take chances.



Also, one article said Parrot was a shar-pei mix (which it definitely looks more like) not a pure pit bull. I doubt that had much to do with anything anyways.

[therealvilla]

This type of shit makes me sick. I don't care what your opinion is on Police this type of action is unacceptable. And the fact that officer Fike was a k-9 officer makes it even worse.

So the correct way to "handle" the situation was to choke and crush the dog within an inch of its life with your full body weight. Let's see, the officer weighs probably between 180 - 200 lbs and the dog probably weighed what 60 - 70 lbs. Yeah seems about right let me put my whole weight into it's neck/back of head. That'll surely calm it down. Then let me pull its leg up and around that's good.

And what was his reasoning to throw the dog over a railing to the concrete? What the fuck is proper about that? That alone is inexcusable. If that were a human suspect what would happen if a cop threw someone over a rail down a story to a concrete pad below. I know what would happen. We'd have a rich criminal who's case would probably be thrown out along with having an undeniable law suit.

But it was a pit bull so I'm sure that's how they're supposed to "handle" that situation.

[Zack01GC]

Absolutely dispicable. Like has been mentioned, I think the cop should get the same punishment that he gave the dog.

[Matth3w]

I'd more say it incites **** in terrible human beings as opposed to just cops. It wasn't necessarily aimed at the 'big bad cop', it was aimed at the dickhead who was armed and murdered a dog, and quite brutally at that.

Exactly. I never said anything abut "if this is where law enforcement in this country is headed..." I'm simply talking about people in general mistreating animals.

[TheRev]

while I agree, i'll throw this out there. you opened up dialogue about cops behavior in general by stating "If this is where our country is headed, I don't want to live here anymore."

personally, it doesn't take an animal killing for me to realize "where this country is heading." thats a pretty general statement which includes all the wrongs of this country as a whole. its going to include the obvious police brutality of this story, whether its an animal or a human being....and that incites the cop ****** discussions.

I'd more say it incites **** in terrible human beings as opposed to just cops. It wasn't necessarily aimed at the 'big bad cop', it was aimed at the dickhead who was armed and murdered a dog, and quite brutally at that.

[ztman92]

i couldnt help but be reminded of this.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=188373237844547

[K-Soup]

Yeah I dont believe that story. Pics or it didnt happen.