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Title: Disturbing Video Shows Cops Knock on Door and Kill Innocent Woman’s Elderly Dog as It Ran Away
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Free Thought Project
URL Source: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/vi ... -kill-dog/#dAkbLHkk7z33UtBC.99
Published: Aug 3, 2016
Author: Claire Bernish
Post Date: 2016-08-05 09:56:07 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 1102
Comments: 7
Disturbing video from a homeowner’s surveillance cameras shows the moment police “murdered” her beloved dog. In an instant, over a decade of companionship with the dog she rescued from a shelter ended with a bullet. Northland, Missouri, resident Brandi Buschman is the latest to mourn a beloved pet because police officers reacted with gunfire instead of restraint — a law enforcement response so common, it has been given a name: puppycide. “They killed her, and she died right there in front of my steps,” Buschman lamented in an interview with local CBS affiliate KCTV5. “She ain’t deserve that.” Kansas City Police officers arrived on Buschman’s secluded property in response to a disturbance call — but when the knocked on her door, she explained, the two cops failed to identify themselves as law enforcement. Believing the unannounced visitor was a friend or family member, Buschman opened the door without restraining Sierra, who bounded outside toward the two officers with her tail wagging — but became frightened at the unfamiliar, uniformed men, and turned back toward her owner. As the dog retreated from the cops, one opens fire. “She is scared, turning around and looking for help from me, and they moved in and gunned her down,” Buschman explained. She then rushed outside and clutched Sierra as the dog passed away. “She’s part of the family,” Buschman said of the 13-year-old family pet. “She didn’t do anything. She was looking to see who was at the door.” Surveillance cameras had been installed by the family to keep watch over their classic cars — but they never expected to see their beloved dog murdered by police, instead. As footage chillingly shows, one of the two officers waited outside after knocking, with his gun drawn, finger on the trigger — as if expecting a violent confrontation from the start. Unsurprisingly, officers said, according to the department, they feared for their lives and felt they had to shoot Sierra. But Buschman has a better summary of the incident: “They murdered her.” Kansas City Police Capt. Stacey Graves gave KCTV5 a stunningly cold and typical explanation for why police opened fire. “Officers were alerted to a residence where sounds of an argument, sounds of a disturbance, was happening,” Graves told the station. “A dog came out of that residence and lunged at officers, and in fear of their personal safety, officers shot the dog.” Because department policy allows for the humane killing of wounded animals — such as deer struck but not killed by vehicles on the highway — the shooting of pets isn’t handled in the same manner as would be an officer’s shooting a person. Buschman buried her cherished Sierra on her property. Police around the United States so routinely claim ‘fear of personal safety’ in the killing of pets, puppycide — and even kittencide — has become an unfortunate subcategory of often unjustified officer brutality. Last month, an officer, inexplicably attempting to serve a 10-year-old warrant, came onto an Oklahoma family’s property during their 5-year-old son’s birthday party and shot the child’s dog several times while the family was inside eating cake and ice cream. In June, incompetent and cowardly officers in California showed up at the wrong address in response to a domestic violence call and shot that family’s elderly dog to death for no reason. In March, the NYPD arrived at an apartment and were met by a friendly dog wagging its tail in greeting — so they shot the animal in cold blood — as a child watched in horror. Detroit police searching for a possible active shooter in a neighborhood in February shot a family dog — even though the animal was tethered to a ten-foot, steel cable leash. In December, officers inexplicably shot another beloved family dog multiple times, and proceeded to tell the animal’s owner, “Well, you don’t have a dog anymore” — as they laughed about what they’d done. Innumerable shootings of family pets — almost wholly unjustified — can be credited to officers’ ‘fear,’ while UPS and FedEx drivers, postal workers, and pizza delivery drivers routinely encounter even actually vicious animals without having to kill them. It stands to reason that if cops are so scared of animals, perhaps they should choose another occupation. Police work, at times, might be dangerous — but the occupation is, after all, a career choice.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
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Nah. How about if they simply don't respond to the 911 call if they have a dog? Dispatcher: 911. Please state your emergency. Next day headline: Woman Killed. Dog OK
You have a career ahead of you as a fantasy writer.
Nah. How about if they simply don't respond to the 911 call if they have a dog? Either way, they are cowards. What part of "the dog was running away" does your cop-worshiping brain not comprehend? The part where she said it. The cops say the dog lunged at them. Which makes more sense.
Of course they said that. Sorry - too many numerous instances of cops lying through their teeth in situations like this for anyone to trust what they say. Yeah the dog ran toward them, then seeing the unfamiliar figures standing menacingly in the doorway, the dog ran away. That's when the cops shot it. Video and more information HERE The dog was submissively wagging her tail as she approaches the "heroes". Buschman still doesn't know why officers were at her home. Scott Morrison, Buschman's boyfriend, says an officer told him someone called 911 about hearing breaking glass or some sort of disturbance nearby. But Buschman says there was nothing wrong on her property. The officers left without making any arrests or apologizing for killing a beloved animal that Brandee says has been part of her family for more than 10 years. It stands to reason that if cops are so scared of animals, perhaps they should choose another occupation. Police work, at times, might be dangerous — but the occupation is, after all, a career choice. " I have to agree. To your list, you can add: phone co workers, cable TV workers, power co workers, gas co workers, sanitation workers, etc. That accounts for a hell of a lot of people that are not threatened by dogs. So, what is the difference that accounts for so many cops killing dogs? Simple, either the cops doing the killing are either too chickenshit to be in that job, or they are psycho/power mad, and do it because they enjoy killing, or simply do it because they can get away with it. Either way, they should not be in that job. Sooner or later, they are going to kill the wrong dog, and get blown away themselves because the property owner "feared for his/her life/safety". I spent 11 years with the phone company, and was in and out of a lot of yards, farm fields, etc. Encountered many, many dogs, and I NEVER felt threatened. I never knew anyone else that ever did either. I can understand if an officer is truly attacked by a truly vicious animal, but all of this senseless cowardly killing of family pets is inexcusable. Those type of officers need to be weeded out, not defended. Wearing a uniform with a badge does not make them "gods". It is time to quit treating them like they are! Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. if you look around, we have gone so far down the the rat hole, the almighty is going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah, if we don't have a judgement come down on us. President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood "I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
"It stands to reason that if cops are so scared of animals, perhaps they should choose another occupation."
Woman: My husband's attacking me! He says he going to kill me!
Dispatcher: OK. He's trying to kill you. Do you have a dog?
Woman: What?
Dispatcher: Do you have a dog?
Woman: Yes! Please hurry!
Dispatcher: Sorry. You're on your own.
#2. To: misterwhite (#1)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
#3. To: misterwhite (#1)
(Edited)
"It stands to reason that if cops are so scared of animals, perhaps they should choose another occupation."
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
#4. To: Deckard (#3)
"What part of "the dog was running away" does your cop-worshiping brain not comprehend?"
#5. To: misterwhite (#4)
(Edited)
The cops say the dog lunged at them.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
#6. To: All (#0)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
#7. To: Deckard (#0)
" Innumerable shootings of family pets — almost wholly unjustified — can be credited to officers’ ‘fear,’ while UPS and FedEx drivers, postal workers, and pizza delivery drivers routinely encounter even actually vicious animals without having to kill them.
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