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flintknapper wrote:Nice Weiner dog!
If anyone were to shoot one of mine…they would likely have a large and immediate problem on their hands. Chips fall where they may.
The owner of Cisco has been much more gracious than I would have been. I know policing is not an easy job, but this story stinks IMO.
This story stinks to the high heavens. Somebody is responsible for the hiring and the assigning of this LEO.It has been said here, and elsewhere, many times that a "Domestic Disturbance" is the most dangerous call an LEO can answer. Why was this LEO alone on that call?G.A. Heath wrote:I still want to hear the officers side of things and learn why he felt that he had to draw on the OP's friend, who we assume was unarmed and non-aggressive. This will determine what "side" I come down on. It doesn't seem reasonanble to draw your weapon and point it at the first person you see when responding to a Domestic Disturbance. Now if the original caller had reported that a weapon was involved in the Domestic (or in possession of a male involved in it) then that makes things a whole different issue.
My final opinion will be one of the as follows depending on what we learn from the officer:
Learn to close the gate behind you locking your dog in the fence and ..
A: the officer response was appropiate because he understood that .... OR
B: the officer was blatently gung-go and needs more training
AND the officer involved as well as the officers in his department might want to consider tossing in some money and getting the man another dog (Its the right thing to do and good PR never hurts in the long run).
