Moderate71
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A police officer entered the living room of a family's home when a group of police were responding to a domestic dispute. The family dog, a small terrier, slipped out of someone's grip (it was surrounded by the family's 3 children) and started yapping very aggressively at the police officer. He drew his gun and discharged several rounds in the general direction of the dog. He missed the dog and one of the bullets ricocheted off the concrete and lodged into the forehead of one the surrounding children, a 9 year old girl who was standing directly behind the dog. Fragments also lodged in her eye and she ran from the room screaming. The police have declined to press charges against the girl. The police officer who discharged the firearm has been fired.
The police have declined to press charges against the girl.
Cop was scared of a small terrier?
A police officer entered the living room of a family's home when a group of police were responding to a domestic dispute. The family dog, a small terrier, slipped out of someone's grip (it was surrounded by the family's 3 children) and started yapping very aggressively at the police officer. He drew his gun and discharged several rounds in the general direction of the dog. He missed the dog and one of the bullets ricocheted off the concrete and lodged into the forehead of one the surrounding children, a 9 year old girl who was standing directly behind the dog. Fragments also lodged in her eye and she ran from the room screaming. The police have declined to press charges against the girl. The police officer who discharged the firearm has been fired.
Cop was scared of a small terrier?
Cop was scared of a small terrier?
Holy crap!!
The girl was right behind the dog and he shot anyway!!
The dog likely failed to immediately obey his lawful commands - time to start blasting away (in self defense) for sure.
Well he's been fired, and is likely to face getting sued, so thats that.
The cop should go to jail for a long time IMO.
I can't even bring myself to watch the video. I have a 9 year old child. This is truly horrifying considering the guy got through police training, firearm safety courses, and psychological testing. And somehow the person who would fire a gun near small children over an angry dog made it through all that training. I hope he goes to jail and the family gets every penny he ever earned on top of a huge settlement from the government who sent this guy out there.
Not really; there has been no information on whether the child will ever see out of that eye again. Some things are beyond the "Oops! Do over!" frame of mind. How this individual was able to secure both a badge and a gun should be an "OMG!!" moment for all of us.
I disagree with that (bolded above) unless that is accomplished only by reducing the pay of those responsible for selecting, training and evaluating that police officer. To simply consider the taxpayers in general to be at fault is moronic and reduces any chance that something similar will not happen with that officer's replacement.
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