Mansfield, TX – A family is mourning the loss of their beloved Great Dane after it was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer in a horrific incident that happened right in front of their children.
The officer was taking his Pit Bull for a walk in the neighborhood when he claimed the Great Dane “charged at him,” so he shot and killed it, according to a statement from the Mansfield Police Department.
The owner of the Great Dane, who was fondly called “Cezar,” is now speaking out and setting the record straight about her encounter with the officer. In a Facebook post, Carol Velarde Evans claimed that Cezar was violently and recklessly shot and killed by the officer.
“This ruthless police officer was walking his PIT BULL, a breed that is brave and can defend itself, not some tiny dog,” Evans wrote. “This officer has known this family for years, he walks his dog all the time and knows Cezar. Cezar did walk up to the Pit Bull and they started barking. I was inches away, fixing to grab Cezar when he pulled a gun out and fired. I immediately went into shock and fear when I saw the gun in his hand. I didn’t know if he was gonna shoot me next.”
Evans said the shooting occurred on Sunday evening when her kids were riding their bikes around the neighborhood cul-de-sac with several neighbors present. As soon as the officer opened fire, Evans said it sent the neighborhood into a panic, with parents rushing to get their children to safety.
“Everyone started panicking, trying to get the kids inside. I did hear Cezar yelp but thought the gun shot hurt his ears. He ran into house,” Evans wrote. “While trying to get kids inside, I saw blood all over my driveway. That’s when I realized he shot at Cezar. I started screaming and looked back, and he stood there smug with no remorse.”
Evans then described her family’s attempt to save their beloved pet. “We dragged Cezar out from under table, blood everywhere and got him in the car. Our precious giant suffered and died on the way to the hospital,” she wrote.
Noting that not only did the officer fatally injure their dog, he endangered the entire neighborhood by recklessly opening fire in the residential area—right in front of children. Evans said she is sharing the horrific loss of her family pet in an attempt to raise awareness:
“I’m sharing my story and loss to help get support and spread to word of this injustice. We will fight for you, Cezar. This will not go as an accident, officer. You murdered our dog. The bullet went through him and could have hit the babies. I live in Mansfield National, you live right around the corner with your pit bull. This is not an unsafe neighborhood to have to carry a weapon. Neighbors, watch your pets, watch your children … until we get justice, it’s not safe in our neighborhood.”
As The Free Thought Project has relentlessly reported, officer-involved shootings that target family dogs have become an epidemic. While police officers have been taught to claim that they opened fire because the animals made them fear for their lives, Body Camera footage and witness testimonies have revealed that is not always the case.
In one example, Body Cam footage revealed that a police officer in Minnesota who was trespassing on a family’s property and shot and killed their dog, appeared to open fire on “a happy, submissive, and docile dog for absolutely no reason.” In another example, a police officer in Indiana opened fire on a dog who ran out to greet him, even though the owner claimed the dog was friendly and had been recently found and rescued by police.
In the case of Cezar the Great Dane, Carol Velarde Evans insisted that “Cezar is not an aggressive dog,” and the officer’s claim that he was just protecting himself against a vicious dog that was trying to attack him, was an outright lie.
#1: Gatlin To: Deckard (#0)
Gatlin posted on 2017-11-01 06:54:03 Reply Private Reply
#2: Deckard To: Gatlin (#1)
Deckard posted on 2017-11-01 06:59:10 Reply Private Reply
#3: Gatlin To: Deckard (#2)
Gatlin posted on 2017-11-01 07:02:29 Reply Private Reply
#4: Gatlin To: Deckard (#2)
Gatlin posted on 2017-11-01 07:03:51 Reply Private Reply
#5: Gatlin To: Deckard (#2)
Gatlin posted on 2017-11-01 07:09:17 Reply Private Reply
#6: Deckard To: Gatlin (#5)
You should have been a cop.
Deckard posted on 2017-11-01 07:14:29 Reply Private Reply
#7: GrandIsland To: Deckard (#2)
It's called justification for DPF
GrandIsland posted on 2017-11-01 07:47:15 Reply Private Reply
#8: Deckard To: GrandIsland (#7)
She looks white to me - or is anyone in your view a criminal if they are minding their own business?
The cop was walking a PIT BULL when he needlessly killed a family pet. Not to mention the kids who were endangered by his reckless actions.
Do you and Gatslime take turns going down on each other?
You two clowns are a frickin joke - cops are gods to you two badge-bunnies.
Deckard posted on 2017-11-01 08:39:22 Reply Private Reply
#9: Gatlin To: Deckard (#6)
Had I been, I would have been a great one.
I have always been fantastic at whatever job I perform in.
I am extremely happy to serve my country and fellow citizens in any capacity I am called on to fill.
Cue God Bless the U.S.A
Please stand with me and sing …
That was moving…..yes, it was!
Gatlin posted on 2017-11-01 11:40:29 Reply Private Reply
#10: Gatlin To: Deckard (#8)
The dog was a GREAT DANE….they can grow to be 7 feet 6 inches.
Shoot the damn MONSTER if it threatens you …
Gatlin posted on 2017-11-01 11:58:42 Reply Private Reply
#11: Gatlin To: Deckard (#8)
A little harmless amily pet…eh?
Other stories out there on the Internet about Great Danes killing people …Shoot the damn MONSTER if it threatens you …
You are such a dufus simpleton!
Gatlin posted on 2017-11-01 12:11:31 Reply Private Reply
#12: Stoner To: Deckard (#0)
Stoner posted on 2017-11-01 12:23:23 Reply Private Reply
#13: Gatlin To: Deckard (#8)
I am not going to look it up, but memory serves me about a “family pet” that killed a grandmother and the mother wen in the hospital with injuries. Yes, it was a GREAT DANE and it was a “family pert”….that went berserk. It happened in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. The daughter said the GREAT DANE was a teddy bear type of dog and not aggressive.
There is another one of your GREAT DANE “family pets”….asshole.
Gatlin posted on 2017-11-01 12:30:19 Reply Private Reply
#14: Deckard To: Gatlin (#11)
The dog didn't threaten the cop.
That's the point Barney.
Deckard posted on 2017-11-01 12:33:37 Reply Private Reply
#15: Stoner To: Gatlin, Deckard (#13)
Sounds made up to me !
Stoner posted on 2017-11-01 13:13:52 Reply Private Reply
#16: Gatlin To: Deckard (#14)
The officer said the Great Dane “charged at him,” so he shot and killed it
Carol Evans insisted that the officer’s claim that he was just protecting himself against a vicious dog that was trying to attack him, was an outright lie.
So, two different people made two different charges.
You were not there and there is no video of the shooting that I have seen.
Therefore, please tell me exactly how you have determined “the dog didn’t threaten the cop.”
Gatlin posted on 2017-11-01 15:51:42 Reply Private Reply
#17: Stoner To: Gatlin, Deckard (#16)
Since you were not there and there is no video of the shooting that I have seen.
Therefore, please tell us exactly how you have determined “the dog did threaten the cop.”
Stoner posted on 2017-11-01 16:14:41 Reply Private Reply
#18: Gatlin To: Deckard (#16)
You have posted numerous cop shoots dog articles. You were never physically present at any of the shootings and you have not posted videos showing the entire event. Yet from all of this and not being privy to first-hand knowledge by seeing the event….you have always concluded that every time a cop shot a dog, it was unjustified.
Deckard, there is not an unbiased brain cell in your head.
Question: What do you call a person who is blindly biased and has an unreasonable hatred?
Answer; Deckard.
Gatlin posted on 2017-11-01 16:20:42 Reply Private Reply
#19: Gatlin To: Deckard (#18)
Shoot the dog!
Gatlin posted on 2017-11-01 17:14:51 Reply Private Reply
#20: GrandIsland To: Deckard (#8)
It's called JUSTIFICATION. Every state allows for it. So, the moral of the story is simple... BREATHE EASY, DONT BREAK THE LAW.
GrandIsland posted on 2017-11-01 18:48:01 Reply Private Reply
#21: GrandIsland To: Stoner (#17)
That's why I don't read these biased written articles or waste my time commenting or allowing myself to be TRIGGERED... like the snowflake liberals get by fake news media. NONE OF US WERE THERE... and none of us will be charged with being on the JURY.
Deckard posts to TRIGGER the exiled FR posters into cop hatred. lol... he gets a fair amount of simpletons to allow themselves to be TRIGGERED... without being part of the incident, witness to the incident, without reading reports, seeing the crime scene, photographs or evidence.
GrandIsland posted on 2017-11-01 18:57:24 Reply Private Reply
#22: Stoner To: GrandIsland (#21)
GI, I will frequently agree with you on some subjects. On this topic, your post is describing Gatlin, as he has made 11 posts on this. AND HE WAS NOT THERE, so cannot explain how he reached his " logical " deduction.
GI, I trust you are still enjoying retirement, and still doing your photography ? I hope so. I also hope your grand daughter is still healing well !
Glad to see you still come around here!
Have a nice day GI !
Regards, Stoner
Stoner posted on 2017-11-01 19:24:58 Reply Private Reply
#23: GrandIsland To: Stoner (#22)
My GD is doing fine, thanks for asking. As far as photography, my Nikon D800 sits in its case a little more than it should... but it does get used. Currently, I'm trying to find the perfect digital image to transfer to a stretched canvas... for my office wall. The last thing I photographed was the Mayan ruins of Tulum. Shot a few really nice shots there, but not the shot I was looking for.
Have a great day, yourself... and I wish you and your family well.
GrandIsland posted on 2017-11-01 20:57:45 Reply Private Reply
#24: Stoner To: GrandIsland (#23)
Cool ! When you get a chance, would be nice if you could post those here. I find old ruins to be fascinating.
Regards
Stoner posted on 2017-11-01 21:10:33 Reply Private Reply
#25: Deckard To: Stoner, Grand Island, misterwhite, A K A Stone, sneakypete (#24)
Unnecessary violence against animals can be a useful indicator to identify problem cops before they kill human beings. Unfortunately, state laws and contract-guaranteed job rules often make it difficult to enforce the zero tolerance policy for police misbehavior that could remove violence-prone cops from their positions.
Deckard posted on 2017-11-03 05:42:45 Reply Private Reply
#26: sneakypete To: Deckard (#0)
The truth of the matter is I offered to kill a customer over a kitten I had rescued when I had a gun shop. The kitten liked to sleep up on the counter,and this redneck cretin came in and announced for no known reason,"I hate cats and I'm going to kill that one. That was when I pulled my cut down 12 gauge pump from under the counter,aimed it at his head,and told him "Go ahead,if you that that is what you HAVE to do,but be aware that I will blow your bleeping head off with buckshot if you do."
I feel like killing him would have been more in the nature of a public service than a crime. That kitten was harmless and would remain harmless for the rest of his life,but you just KNOW that goober spend the rest of his life poisoning,running over,or shooting his neighbors pets.
If not their children. Pretty much every serial killer I ever heard of got their start by killing puppies and kittens.
Not that I am trying to justify what I would have done if he had stepped up to the line. I would have killed him and not cared about what anyone would have thought about it.
sneakypete posted on 2017-11-03 08:55:05 Reply Private Reply
#27: sneakypete To: Gatlin (#5)
sneakypete posted on 2017-11-03 08:56:14 Reply Private Reply
#28: sneakypete To: Gatlin (#10)
That's odd. If that dog was that big,that woman must be 25 feet tall.
Ohhhh! I get it! That dog COULD grow to be that big,and what your scum-sucking cowardly idol did was a PREVENTATIVE KILLING to keep him from getting that big!
BTW,I am not saying it has never happened,but in my entire life I have not heard of even ONE Great Dane attacking and killing anyone.
The same can not be said for cops or pit bulls.
Your turn.
sneakypete posted on 2017-11-03 09:02:18 Reply Private Reply
#29: sneakypete To: Gatlin (#11)
And even more stories about douche bag cops killing people for no valid reason.
The dogs were tied to a tree and any living creature that is tied up feels threatened and afraid.
Tell me,how many stories have you read of cops killing children because "they were in fear of their lives"?
sneakypete posted on 2017-11-03 09:06:35 Reply Private Reply
#30: Deckard To: GrandIsland, Gatlin, dog killers (#23)
Deckard posted on 2017-11-03 09:17:09 Reply Private Reply
#31: Stoner To: sneakypete (#26)
Agree with you on that Pete. I also apply that rule to my wife, and children. Anyone that threatens my wife, or children, or pets has sealed their fate! I consider that an act of war, and I WILL react accordingly !!
Regards
Stoner posted on 2017-11-03 10:51:56 Reply Private Reply