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Cop shoots service dog outside of dog park

December 22nd, 2015

Awake Goy

A hearing impaired woman says that a Washington DC Metro cop shot her service dog for no reason. The off-duty officer shot “Cleo” and never even identified herself as law enforcement when she did it. The woman, LaToya Plummer, is now calling for prosecutors to press animal cruelty charges against the unidentified officer.

DC Metro is currently protecting the trigger-happy cop. All that the department will say is that the off-duty cop alleges that the dog “bared its teeth in an aggressive manner” making the officer fear “her safety.” Greenbelt Police say that they are independently investigating the incident since it happened in their jurisdication and not in Washington DC proper.

George Matthews of Greenbelt Police told Photography Is Not a Crime the following:

The victim, an off-duty Metropolitan Police Officer, advised that she was walking her dog when a dog she described as a large pit bull aggressively ran towards her and her dog. Fearing for her safety, the victim produced her handgun and fired a shot at the dog.

The owner was still inside the dog park with two other dogs. When the victim approached her and stated that she was contacting the police, the suspect took all of her dogs, including the possibly injured dog, and left the scene. It was later discovered that the suspect was hearing impaired and thought that her dog had been involved in a fight. She was told the dog had been shot.

The dog was taken to a veterinarian for treatment.

Grant Stern of PINAC News writes that “due to that communications barriers between the owner of the wounded dog and the cop, the hearing impaired wounded dog’s owner called police hours later, thinking her dog had been bit,” adding that “after finding out the other side of the story, it’s hard to understand why the DC sergeant is still being called the ‘victim’ of this shooting.”

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Cop shoots service dog outside of dog park

December 22nd, 2015

Awake Goy

A hearing impaired woman says that a Washington DC Metro cop shot her service dog for no reason. The off-duty officer shot “Cleo” and never even identified herself as law enforcement when she did it. The woman, LaToya Plummer, is now calling for prosecutors to press animal cruelty charges against the unidentified officer.

DC Metro is currently protecting the trigger-happy cop. All that the department will say is that the off-duty cop alleges that the dog “bared its teeth in an aggressive manner” making the officer fear “her safety.” Greenbelt Police say that they are independently investigating the incident since it happened in their jurisdication and not in Washington DC proper.

George Matthews of Greenbelt Police told Photography Is Not a Crime the following:

The victim, an off-duty Metropolitan Police Officer, advised that she was walking her dog when a dog she described as a large pit bull aggressively ran towards her and her dog. Fearing for her safety, the victim produced her handgun and fired a shot at the dog.

The owner was still inside the dog park with two other dogs. When the victim approached her and stated that she was contacting the police, the suspect took all of her dogs, including the possibly injured dog, and left the scene. It was later discovered that the suspect was hearing impaired and thought that her dog had been involved in a fight. She was told the dog had been shot.

The dog was taken to a veterinarian for treatment.

Grant Stern of PINAC News writes that “due to that communications barriers between the owner of the wounded dog and the cop, the hearing impaired wounded dog’s owner called police hours later, thinking her dog had been bit,” adding that “after finding out the other side of the story, it’s hard to understand why the DC sergeant is still being called the ‘victim’ of this shooting.”

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Source Article from http://www.sott.net/article/308977-Cop-shoots-service-dog-outside-of-dog-park

Cop shoots service dog outside of dog park

December 22nd, 2015

Awake Goy

A hearing impaired woman says that a Washington DC Metro cop shot her service dog for no reason. The off-duty officer shot “Cleo” and never even identified herself as law enforcement when she did it. The woman, LaToya Plummer, is now calling for prosecutors to press animal cruelty charges against the unidentified officer.

DC Metro is currently protecting the trigger-happy cop. All that the department will say is that the off-duty cop alleges that the dog “bared its teeth in an aggressive manner” making the officer fear “her safety.” Greenbelt Police say that they are independently investigating the incident since it happened in their jurisdication and not in Washington DC proper.

George Matthews of Greenbelt Police told Photography Is Not a Crime the following:

The victim, an off-duty Metropolitan Police Officer, advised that she was walking her dog when a dog she described as a large pit bull aggressively ran towards her and her dog. Fearing for her safety, the victim produced her handgun and fired a shot at the dog.

The owner was still inside the dog park with two other dogs. When the victim approached her and stated that she was contacting the police, the suspect took all of her dogs, including the possibly injured dog, and left the scene. It was later discovered that the suspect was hearing impaired and thought that her dog had been involved in a fight. She was told the dog had been shot.

The dog was taken to a veterinarian for treatment.

Grant Stern of PINAC News writes that “due to that communications barriers between the owner of the wounded dog and the cop, the hearing impaired wounded dog’s owner called police hours later, thinking her dog had been bit,” adding that “after finding out the other side of the story, it’s hard to understand why the DC sergeant is still being called the ‘victim’ of this shooting.”

Watch the video, and help SPREAD THE WORD!

Source Article from http://www.sott.net/article/308977-Cop-shoots-service-dog-outside-of-dog-park