Lexington Police say their officer feared for his life when he shot a Rottweiler in its own yard during a foot pursuit Wednesday night, but the dog's owner says his dog isn't vicious and wasn't doing anything wrong.
“Oh, he’s always got blood on his lips.” – Bill Engvall
"I was in the park playing basketball and I heard six gunshots. I came running down after it happened," said Michael Powell, who returned to his backyard to find a nightmare come true. His ten year old Rottweiler named Rock had been shot to death.
SIX FREAKING SHOTS TO KILL THE DOG? That is one cop with bad aim.
Police say their officer was chasing a wanted juvenile suspect. The-17-year old ran through the back yard of Powell's home along Bryan Avenue, and without knowing a dog was back there, the officer followed.
Police say their officer was chasing a wanted juvenile suspect. The-17-year old ran through the back yard of Powell's home along Bryan Avenue, and without knowing a dog was back there, the officer followed.
Wait, wait, wait … “without knowing a dog was back there, the officer followed.” You mean had he realized there was a dog back there he would have let the perp get away? Wow, this cop sucks.
"He hopped the fence, giving chase. The dog charged the officer and actually made contact with the officers pants leg. The officer, in defense of himself, fired his weapon into the dog, killing the animal," said Lt. David Marcum.
"He hopped the fence, giving chase. The dog charged the officer and actually made contact with the officers pants leg. The officer, in defense of himself, fired his weapon into the dog, killing the animal," said Lt. David Marcum.
Contact with the officer’s pants (BTW, the typo above, missing an apostrophe is from the original) is not the same as contact with the officer’s leg. If there’s no blood, then there’s no fear for life and therefore no weapon should have been discharged. Period.
AND … two strange people just jumped the fence into this dog’s yard. How can you not expect the dog to react?
"He had no bite marks, no scratch marks, nothing on him," Powell said. "He's not a vicious dog. I have neighbors that feed him every day and pet him. He's not a mean dog at all."
"He had no bite marks, no scratch marks, nothing on him," Powell said. "He's not a vicious dog. I have neighbors that feed him every day and pet him. He's not a mean dog at all."
Okay, the owners will always say that. Even I say it about Oscar when some people are scared to death of him. But seriously, a dog is really as good as its owners/trainers. If you train that dog to be docile and to be okay around people, then it will be. Period.
Police say their officer fired six shots at the dog. Powell wants an explanation for that.
"I wanna know why they murdered my dog," he said. "Six shots. Six shots to kill a dog? Why couldn't they have tasered him or pepper sprayed him like anything else?"
I’m with this guy. Why six shots? Why did he have to shoot the dog at all? Though, I gotta admit, given the difference in size between a person and a dog, if he tasered him, he would have died too. But, what do I know?
"In that situation, when you're chasing a suspect and you've got a million things going through your mind and you're confronted with a large animal that's aggressive towards you, you're trying to save yourself, and the weapon he chose to use was his side arm. He is allowed to do that to defend himself," said Lt. Marcum.
Powell says he has a beagle that disappeared during the ordeal as well.
"In that situation, when you're chasing a suspect and you've got a million things going through your mind and you're confronted with a large animal that's aggressive towards you, you're trying to save yourself, and the weapon he chose to use was his side arm. He is allowed to do that to defend himself," said Lt. Marcum.
Powell says he has a beagle that disappeared during the ordeal as well.
Did they see six bullet holes in the Rottweiler? I’m just sayin…
Police say they are sorry the dog was killed, and that they'll do what they can at this point to rectify it. But they maintain it was an incident that would not have been avoided.
Police say they are sorry the dog was killed, and that they'll do what they can at this point to rectify it. But they maintain it was an incident that would not have been avoided.
What can they do? Buy the guy a new dog? That isn’t going to do it. Offer an apology? Fire the cop? Not gonna happen. There is no rectifying the situation.
“It was an incident that would not have been avoided.” First, shouldn’t it say, “could not have been avoided”? Second, umm, yeah, it could have. I mean, shoot, if the cop carried bacon in his pocket, he could have easily distracted the dog instead of shoot it.
I mean, come on, mailmen know dogs can cause a possible issue on their routes, as do meter readers and utility workers. They don’t resort to shooting dogs. (And God knows if anyone would be justified to do so, it would be a mailman.) Stupid cops.
Here’s my prediction – if the owner of the dog didn’t already have a gun, he’s going to get one. I seriously doubt he will be calling Lexington PD if anything ever happens in his neck of the woods ever again. If any cop gets anywhere remotely close to ripping his pants, the cop best have good life insurance.
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