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All the more reason that dogs need to be taken from the police. Any dog that attacks a human, other than if it's defending it's owner, should be put down. Any dog, rather owned by police or anyone else that attacks me or mine will be planted. The dogs deserve better.
There were other charges included in this extremely long sentence, but all the uproar in the general public was about the police dog being killed.
Now I care a great deal about how animals are treated, you can call me an animal lover, but it ticks me off that people seemed to be elevating the status of this dog because he was a police dog. Some of the same people who's blood runs cold over a human being dying from an illegal choke hold, something that never needed to happen, just flipped out to the point of emotional derangement over a police dog getting killed.
Well I say those officers probably had no freaking business setting that dog on the man in the first place.
If a police dog attacked me, I would take that bleeping dog out by any means necessary to protect myself. Moreover, in this case, the man sentenced clearly has a long history of mental illness. This man should have probably been institutionalized in a setting where he could receive the kind of management necessary for his illness, however, people in this society would rather use their tax money to pay for the confinement of someone like him in prison than to exercise prevention and pay for permanent specialized housing. When a parent says they were afraid of their child and locked bedroom doors when the child is living at home, I recognize those words as a hallmark of a severe mental illness context.
This man needs to be sent to a forensic hospital setting to serve this irrational sentence the judge doled out.
There is more to it than killing the dog, he had some pretty serious charges on top of it. The guy was a violent scumbag.
One of the lessons I learned in 'Nam was to kill anything that attacks me. I have not unlearned that lesson and probably never will. That is one reason I avoid travelling in dangerous places.
This criminal deserved most of his sentence but killing the dog should not have been one of the charges. Destroying government property but not killing.
I have no problem with a sentence for killing a police dog but this story is far larger than that. This guy get a prison sentence. A police officer is allowed to kill your pet and then lie about it.
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