Police can shoot dog if it moves/barks when cop enters home
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A ruling from the 6th Circuit Court serves as a warning to dog owners: Teach your dog to sit still and be quiet or risk police justifiably shooting the dog.
Mark and Cheryl Brown petitioned the court to hold the city and police officers from Battle Creek, Mich., accountable for shooting and killing their dogs while executing a search warrant of their home looking for evidence of drugs. The plaintiffs said the police officers' actions amounted to the unlawful seizure of property in violation of the Fourth Amendment.
The circuit court on Monday agreed with a lower court ruling siding with the police officers.
"The standard we set out today is that a police officer's use of deadly force against a dog while executing a warrant to search a home for illegal drug activity is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment when, given the totality of the circumstances and viewed from the perspective of an objectively reasonable officer, the dog poses an imminent threat to the officer's safety," Judge Eric Clay wrote in the court's opinion.
how is a dog meant to know it's a police officer? they're just trying to protect their family because to them a complete stranger has just come in their territory. a dog barks, and a police officer can't change that.
"The second dog was not moving towards the officers when they discovered her in the basement, but rather she was 'just standing there,' barking and was turned sideways to the officers. Klein then fired the first two rounds at the second dog."
After the wounded dog ran into a back corner of the basement, another officer shot the dog rather than seeking help for it.
"Officer Case saw that 'there was blood coming out of numerous holes in the dog, and ... [Officer Case] didn't want to see it suffer,' so he put her out of her misery and fired the last shot," Clay wrote.
This is horrible, and I hope there is justified outrage over this. You can't enter people's homes and shoot their pets for reacting instinctually. People who harm animals are disgusting.
But honestly, this is wrong. Dogs are instinctual creatures. They can't be accounted for in EVERY circumstance. Especially for something as reflexive as a bark.
Maybe if it tries to attack the officer. But otherwise...
I remember a thread where most atrlers would save their dog instead of someones child.
There's nothing wrong with saving the life of an animal who is bonded to you for life over someone you don't know. That thread set an ultimatum: save one or the other, but not both.
There's nothing wrong with saving the life of an animal who is bonded to you for life over someone you don't know. That thread set an ultimatum: save one or the other, but not both.
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Originally posted by Cookie
As if there's anything wrong with that?
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Originally posted by dansuxx
what's the problem with that?
I'm not gonna list all the problems I have with this line of thought.
well the bark is the warning before the bite and if a police officer feels the dog is a threat to impeding the carrying out of their job or distracting them from keeping attention on the potential criminal owners then i get it.
they really need some kind of canine neutralizer that doesnt kill the animal. sad
Those cops are sadistic bastards. They should be hanged.
