IL cop shoots 6-year-old girl’s pet in head

[Storm Shadow]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/...-as-she-watches-the-dog-wasnt-doing-anything/

IL cop shoots 6-year-old girl’s pet in head as she watches: ‘The dog wasn’t doing anything’

Police in Illinois promised a full investigation over the weekend after a Chicago-area officer shot a family’s dog in the head as its 6-year-old owner watched.
Mother Nicole Echlin told WMAQ that their 1-year-old shepherd-mix Apollo escaped on Friday, and the family was returning home just as officers from the Hometown Police Department were arriving.
“We were in the lawn and the cop already had his gun out,” Echlin explained. “I tried to call him in the house and he just stood there staring and I guess he showed his teeth and the cop just shot him, right in front of me and my 6-year-old daughter.”

The daughter immediately “started screaming,” Echlin recalled.
Neighbors who witnessed the shooting insisted to WMAQ that the dog had not tried to attack the officers.
“The dog wasn’t doing anything. I didn’t see it doing anything, it wasn’t barking,” Nicco Torres observed. “Then I saw a cop shoot the dog, the dog fell to ground on the lawn. I saw through the window the dog was on the floor shot but the dog was still moving, it was moving its legs like it was trying to run but it was laying down.”
Apollo’s co-owner, Kristy Scialabba, who is Echlin’s 23-year-old sister and works at an animal care center, said that the dog was not aggressive.
“I don’t know why they would pull out a gun they had so many other options,” Scialabba pointed out. “And to shoot a dog in front of a child, that’s going to scare her for the rest of her life.”
In a statement on Hometown Police Department’s Facebook page, Chief Charles Forsyth promised a “full investigation.”
“It would be too early for me to make any statement without reviewing all the facts,” Forsyth said. “I can assure the people of Hometown that a full investigation of the incident will be conducted.”
Apollo died on Saturday after being treated at an animal hospital.
“We’re just completely broken and we really don’t know what to do,” Scialabba lamented. “That was my boy, that was my dog. This is hometown you don’t hear anything like this. Nothing ever happens here.”
The family is using a “Justice for Apollo” Facebook page to promote a rally outside the police department on August 3, and to sell T-shirts.


I hate PIGS

 

[D. B. Doober]

that's horrible

 

[Treetroit City]

I see from the depts facebook page the officer was fired.

Doesn't bring the dog back and won't erase this horrible act from that little girls memory but it is more than I would have expected.

 

[Treetroit City]

From Chief Forsyth:
On 7/25/14 Police Dispatch received a phone call (recorded call on file) from the dog owners home that their dog a 16 month shepard/pit mix was loose and requested the Police to watch out for the dog.The Officer located the dog in the area and followed it back to its home. The Officer reports while attempting to coax the dog back into the house the dog turned, growled and approached him in a threatening manner. The Officer then withdrew his service weapon and fired one shot striking the dog. Although the Officer may have been justified under the Illinois Use of Force statute governing deadly force, I have made the decision to terminate that Officers employment with the Hometown Police Department. In addition, all reports and witness statements will be forwarded to the Illinois State Police Public Integrity Unit to be reviewed.

 

[Bulldog420]

Happens all the time. My brother is involved with an organization bringing this to people's attention. Look up "Justice for Arzy", another case where the cop was fired and I think charges pressed against him. Still on going I believe. Everybody should see how the police have become militarized.

 

[bentom187]

It happens way to often ,and they enjoy it. The police are not here to serve or protect. They are here Just to collect revenue for the state.

You all should train you pets if possible to hide on command or in the sight of an officer.

 

[bentom187]

Look up "Justice for Arzy".

Man says officer ‘fought back a smile’ after shooting friendly dog in the head

SULPHUR, LA — Witnesses dispute an officer’s version of events after a dog was shot in the top of the head in a parking lot. The owner says that the cop fought back a smile after shooting his friendly, tail-wagging dog for no discernible reason — while it was tied up on a leash.

The dog owner says he is “sick with grief” over losing his puppy, which he describes as “a big teddy bear that you had to feed.”

The confrontation arose when police came to investigate two men and a dog in a parking lot on April 28th around 7:20 a.m.

Brandon Carpenter, 28, and Logan Laliberte, 21, had been traveling across the USA with a few meager possessions and Carpenter’s dog, a 14-month-old Labrador / Newfoundland / golden retriever mix named Arzy Kensington. The transient pair started their journey in Maine and traveled all the way to Louisiana by walking and hitching a ride on a freight train.


While walking through the town of Sulphur when it began to rain. Seeking shelter, they found a box truck that had been left open behind a warehouse and sat inside it. A witness reported the trespass to police.

Officer Brian Thierbach of the Sulphur Police Department soon arrived, and with his gun drawn ordered the men out of the truck. They complied.

The officer told Carpenter to “get your dog” and allowed him to tie it to the nearby fence with the leash. The men were then handcuffed and led a few feet away.

Carpenter says the cop kept his gun “poised in hand,” and went back to where the dog was tied up. The owner explained what happened next:

“About 20 seconds later, without a warning, a scuffle, a bark, or a voice command, there was a single shot fired, right through the top of Arzy dog’s head. I sat there in cuffs in the rain watching my dog convulse his last few breaths. I was sobbing and asking why. The officer tried to fight off a smile while telling me that the dog tried to bite his foot. [Arzy] was on a 3 and a half foot leash, unable to move more than 3 and a half feet.

I then was placed in the back of the cop car facing my dead, blood-stained dog. About a half an hour later, a few more cops showed up and I had to watch as they stuffed his body into a trash bag and threw him into the back of a truck. I feel so sad and empty right now. How can people have so much hate in their heart? I’m sick with grief.”

“All he had to do is take one giant step back,” Carpenter remarked to the Southwest Daily News. “Why didn’t he ask me to move the dog or just take one big step back if he was uncomfortable?”

Eric Midkiff, an employee of the company which owned the parking lot and the truck, witnessed the incident and stated that the dog never attacked the officer. He had a clear view of Carpenter and Laliberte, who were both handcuffed on the ground, as well as the officer and the tethered dog.

“That dog did not bite that officer,” Midkiff told the Huffington Post. “The dog was wagging his tail, his tongue was hanging out.”

“The dog was rubbing up against the cop,” said Midkiff. “He would rub the dog’s back and then push him away. All of a sudden, he just jumped down and shot the dog in the head.”

Midkiff also says he watched Officer Thierbach change his story while being interviewed. First he claimed to have been bitten on the calf, then he claimed to have been bitten on the back of his heel. Later, another officer took a photograph of his toe, according to the Post.

Carpenter described the horror he saw when Arzy was shot: “I see my dog kind of start shaking and batting at his head,” he said. “I saw the blood start to run down his face. … I’m watching my dog die while I’m sitting in cuffs.”

Carpenter and Laliberte were charged with trespassing but the shooting of Arzy was completely uncalled for.

Mr. Carpenter says that his efforts to plan a protest have been met with intimidation from the town of Sulphur. He says that Mayor Christopher Duncan told him that he could not protest unless he obtained a permit, and that his protest had to be covered by $10,000.00 worth of liability insurance. Carpenter was told that he would have to schedule a hearing to ask for permission for the permit — and the earliest date that he would be heard would be over three weeks from now.

Despite the town’s best efforts to silence him, Carpenter has scheduled a public protest for for Saturday, May 3rd at Heritage Square at 3:00 p.m. Everyone is invited.

“I’m not going to allow this to get swept away,” said Carpenter. He is demanding accountability for what happened and requesting the dismissal of Officer Brian Thierbach. A petition is listed in the section below, as well as other ways you can help.

Click for more stories of Puppycide.

 

[Stoner4Life]

I feel sorry for the sad sonofabitch that shoots either of my dogs, I am a stone cold eye for an eye kinda guy.......

 

[CakeMurphy]

I just read that, and from there I was led to countless other stories about cops shooting these poor animals, most of them not even provoked.

I'm not a violent person, but if I were able to somehow round up all these trigger happy cops, I'd make a real-life version of the Saw films. I would show them no mercy.
I don't mean all cops, I mean the ones that commit these heartless acts.

 

[Mr.23]

Lets look at bigger picture. Dog gets shot police gets fired. Cop shoots unarmed unuggressive person he gets a slap on the wrist........ theres something wrong in this pic....

 

[OGShaman]

Been there....

When I was a little kid I had a giant St. Bernard, an incredibly gentle giant. Well I'm playing in the yard with my dog and this girl from down the street, and she keeps antagonizing my dog with a stick, but he's mostly ignoring her. I keep telling her to leave him alone, but she is not listening, and when she pokes my dog in the eye with the stick he snaps at her. So she starts screaming and crying and runs home and tells her mom my dog bit her, which was not the case. He just tried to tell her enough was enough, and leave me the hell alone ya know?

The mom calls the cops, the cops come to my house, and without so much as an investigation they shoot my dog in our front yard with all the neighbors watching because supposedly he was this dangerous animal that was attacking kids. The cop that shot him looked like a kid himself.

My dad had to be held back because he wanted to kill this kid, and he spent the next year filing complaints against the officer until he was eventually fired.

 

[merc500]

shoot my dog and God help you chief

 

[stoned-trout]

pepper spray would have been appropriate at the most...... I don't like cops and this one needs to be fired or shot...

 

[HempKat]

What I want to know is what the hell do we give cops, batons, pepper spray and tazers for if every time they feel even slightly threatened they're going to resort to using deadly force?

If a tazer is supposed to be able to take down without killing, a large man high on PCP then surely it would be sufficient for taking down without killing a young adult Shepard/Pit mix.

 

[Bulldog420]

It takes a psycho to kill a dog in cold blood. What does that say about our police force?

 

[bentom187]

Psycho's indeed.

California Police Shoot Injured Animals at the Range

If anyone in America still remains ignorant of the increasingly violent and hostile nature of their law enforcement officers, then one might do well to pay a visit to the Merced, California police shooting range to catch a glimpse of the psychopathic, cruel, and savage nature that has now encompassed the vast majority of police in this country.

In what sounds more like a fabricated Internet rumor, the fact is that the Merced, California Police Department has been taking injured animals to the shooting range and shooting them for target practice, as discussed in the video below.

In fact, this horrific behavior was actually first reported by CBS13 out of California, when discussing police procedure in regards to shooting injured animals in the field. Unfortunately, the CBS report did not focus on the Merced Police Department's horrific animal executions nearly as much as it should have.

Instead, they chose to focus on more “mundane” situations in which an officer may find an injured animal “in the field” who is in unbearable pain and, one might argue, would be better off dead. The idea, in short, is that, in some cases, if the animal is going to die anyway, it may be more humane to take its life than to let it continue to suffer.

The California penal code reads,

…any officer…may, with the approval of his or her immediate superior, humanely destroy any abandoned animal in the field in any case where the animal is too severely injured to move or where a veterinarian is not available and it would be more humane to dispose of the animal.
The above issue aside, however, the Merced Police Department’s actions are no act of compassionate charity. In fact, it seems that the MPD is routinely locating injured animals for the pleasure of target practice.

Thus, if the animal is in such pain as to warrant being killed, how could it possibly be justified to catch the animal, transport it to the shooting range, set it up as a target (how long does it have to wait?), and then shoot it. Of course, after all of this, one could only hope that the animal is killed with the first shot.

Abusive and violent police behavior has been increasing rapidly in the United States, particularly in the last few years. From brutal treatment of apprehended criminals to the beatings, humiliation, killings of innocent people as well as sexual assault, law enforcement agencies and police all across America have made it clear that they are here to violate, dominate, and oppress – not protect and serve. Yet, unfortunately, Americans, who are largely paralyzed by an entertainment-obsessed stupor of cop shows, detective programs, and forensic dramas, seem entirely oblivious to the fact that they themselves are now considered the enemy.

Killing animals for fun is one of the true hallmarks of a psychopath. The very fact that such an individual (indeed, individuals) can not only be present within a local police force but thrive in it, should serve as a wake-up call to everyone.

The people of Merced, California, and the United States as a whole, must take good hard look at what their police forces have become before it is entirely too late. Judging by the openness of the Merced Police Department and the behavior of police departments across the country, we are quickly nearing that deadline.

 

[bentom187]

Henrico police shoot pet as they notify family of son's homicide

A bereft Henrico County family says its son died near Cool Lane, robbed of his life and $15.

"He'd taken the bus up to my place to borrow the money last night; he just wanted a video or something," said Henry Hamiel.

Hamiel's nephew, Ricky Ellerbe, 33, turned up shot to death hours later, about eight blocks from his home and just yards from the all-night convenience store on Mechanicsville Turnpike that had been his destination.

"He probably had been out there dead all night," said Ellerbe's mother, Nannie, sitting on the stoop of her home in the 2900 block of Fairfield Avenue.

"We called and called and called and no one answered," she said. Her cellphone and the few dollars Ricky Ellerbe carried may have been the only items taken from an apparent robbery, the family said.

Henrico investigators swarmed the area with forensics technicians and tracking dogs, but no arrest had been reported Wednesday night. Ellerbe was one of five children; a brother, Gary, died in 2010 from a heart attack, three years after he'd been repeatedly stabbed.

And in a horrific turn of events, a Henrico police officer shot and killed the Ellerbe family pitbull, Tiger, as it charged toward the officer off its leash.

The unidentified officer and a detective had arrived at the home to notify family members that Ellerbe had been killed. His body was discovered shortly after 6 a.m. Wednesday, face down near an alley.

The pitbull ran from the backyard of the home toward at least one officer, who pulled his weapon and shot the dog in the home's front yard, according to Ellerbe's sister, Latoya.

"They had told me my brother was dead and I'd come out back to cry on the porch and Tiger must have heard them. He ran into the front yard and the officer shot him," LaToya Ellerbe said.

Police were not immediately available to comment Wednesday and had not publicly identified Ellerbe as the shooting victim.

Family members said Ellerbe had walked from his home to the all-night 360 Express Mart on Mechanicsville Turnpike sometime after midnight and never returned.

Nannie Ellerbe wiped away tears a few feet from where police hauled away the lifeless body of Tiger and eight blocks from where the medical examiner's office hauled away her son.

"I can't bring myself to go over there and look," she said of the crime scene.

 

[RetroGrow]

And that's why we call them pigs......

Many pigs are psychopaths. This is well known.

Top 10 psychopath careers:
1. CEO
2. Lawyer
3. Media (Television/Radio)
4. Salesperson
5. Surgeon
6. Journalist
7. Police officer
8. Clergy person
9. Chef
10. Civil servant
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2013/01/05/the-top-10-jobs-that-attract-psychopaths/

Are Police Departments Recruiting Psychopaths?
"Kevin Dutton, author of The Wisdom of Psychopaths, ranks Police Officer as number seven on the list of psychopath dream jobs, just after journalist and before clergy person. This may seem counterintuitive, as many of the jobs on Dutton’s list sound like public service jobs, and indeed civil servant comes in at number 10 on the list. Besides a certain expectation to serve, these jobs also have something else in common–people in these professions exhibit more psychopathic behavior than many “disturbed” criminals."
“Any situation where you’ve a got a power structure, a hierarchy, the ability to manipulate or wield control over people, you get psychopaths doing very well,” Dutton said in an interview with Smithsonian.com.

Notice Dutton doesn’t say that psychopaths are merely drawn to these professions. He says they do well in them. I had a neighbor who left the police training program after a month because he was constantly told by his superiors that he was too nice, too respectful. They wanted him to be more “in control,” which leads to me to wonder: are police training programs seeking to cultivate psychopathy? Or worse. Are police departments recruiting psychopaths?

 

[RetroGrow]

Ponder this recruitment video from the Newport Beach Police Department and ask yourself: who does this appeal to?

[YOUTUBEIF]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w_rKA6ROAVk[/YOUTUBEIF]

Bullet proof vests, handguns, sirens, jumping walls, loading AK-47s, training with killer dogs, all set to some semi-techno music, reminiscent of a video game score. This video doesn’t make the job look like a public service, but rather a private militia—a group that controls, not serves. This is the kind of things that psychopaths love. Power. Control

 

[Davey420]

Even if the dog was to attack the officers it was a 1 year old dog aka a PUPPY how the fuck can anyone in their right mind shoot a puppy. I hope he goes out the same way.