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This was a really horrible, horrible mistake by that officer. He's going to get fired - and maybe even charged with some sort of low level crime or a neglect related civil offense.
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Originally Posted by rodentraiser
I'd think the officer would get fired at the very least.
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Originally Posted by mangoarrow
This ahole needs to be charged with 2 first-degree murders because no way in hell he didn't do this on purpose.
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Originally Posted by ringwise
Of course humans make mistakes. But those mistakes should come with consequences. How else will learning occur?
He is a police officer, he is immune to getting charged now we ended up accidentally killing those dogs we would be charged and thrown in jail
By the way t he cop was suspended WITH PAY!
This is why people are protesting, cops have no consequences
Charge with a minimum of involuntary manslaughter. It is beyond me how people forget their kids and their pets, or in this case, their partners, and leave them in a hot car to die. Officer should be fired while awaiting charges and trial. If anyone else killed the dogs, they would be charged with murder.
Manslaughter????
Seriously?
For heaven's sake, they're dogs, not humans!
An unfortunate mistake, but a mistake nevertheless.
Putting aside how much I love dogs, and how tragic this whole thing is, I think any criminal prosecution is going a bit overboard. I don't think anyone can assume that this officer intended to harm his dogs, and without that intent it becomes a matter of negligence and/or an accident. He may or may not justifiably lose his job, but I don't think it would be unfair for him to have to reimburse to taxpayers for the cost of the dogs & their training. He actually destroyed public owned police property, and at least should be held responsible for that.
Putting aside how much I love dogs, and how tragic this whole thing is, I think any criminal prosecution is going a bit overboard. I don't think anyone can assume that this officer intended to harm his dogs, and without that intent it becomes a matter of negligence and/or an accident. He may or may not justifiably lose his job, but I don't think it would be unfair for him to have to reimburse to taxpayers for the cost of the dogs & their training. He actually destroyed public owned police property, and at least should be held responsible for that.
yeah, but lets face it..... If I did the same thing, the police would be at my door force me to the ground , cuff me , bring me to jail and then I would face charges of some sort, after I have spent some time scared for my life and threatened etc...
cop does it and most likely the other cops will rally around and say he is a "good" guy and does not deserve this treatment...
I knew 2 K9 officers that took their dogs home. Make no excuses, the dogs are tools for law enforcement not pets. Both officers took the dogs home but both left them outside 365 days a year. They cared for them but also realized their purpose.
Now that being said, this guy needs to be punished and his days of K9 patrol are over......but the whole "my best friend, kids loved the dogs" is all nonsense.
ALL humans make mistakes...but most of the time we get away with them...how many times have I bent down for a split second in the car to pick up something I dropped while I was driving? Too many to count. I've been lucky, nothing's ever happened...but that .0000001% of the time, it does....the driver hits a pedestrian, or a tree, or the man half asleep after a 15 hour shift forgets his sleeping dogs are in the back...this could happen to any of us, and I believe that with all my heart. I do not think he should be charged if it truly was an accident. I feel the same about the poor parents who have forgotten their kids were in the car.
There was recently a thread about a commuter that remembered while he was on the train that his baby was in the car, and called 911. People in general were very forgiving of him. In this case it is no different, except he couldn't save them because he was sleeping versus riding in a train, yet people think he's a beast. I don't get it.
I'm not a cop booster, on every thread in Current Events about police shootings, I'm on the side of the protesters, my record is easy to find...but in this case I truly think he loved the dogs, you can see it in the pictures, and this was just a human being human but that resulted in tragedy.
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