Doggie deaths
Police, it seems, are killing more and more family pets. Radley details a couple of incidents. One that rather frightened me:
The three officers chasing a suspect “acted in reckless and callous disregard for the constitutional rights” of Cynthia Peters and Mark Parr when they shot the couple’s 1 ½-year-old pit bull Blu on July 27, 2005, according to the suit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.
Blu was in the couple’s fenced yard on Sixth Street when the officers opened the gate to pursue a suspect, then shot the dog 11 times with pistols and a shotgun. When Parr ran up and asked the officers, “Why’d you shoot my dog?” police “pointed their guns at him, kicked and punched him and threw him to the ground,” the suit said.
Seriously? That is beyond reason to willfully shoot a family pet with such fanatical zeal. Then to threaten the family? That is inexcusable. I’d have put 11 rounds in someone myself.
