Investigation Opened After Sadistic Texas Cop Lures and Executes Dog

In yet another sick story of a law enforcement officer shooting a beloved family pet another investigation is being conducted by authorities over an alleged dog murder.  The incident took place back in August in Cleburne, Texas and was captured on video by a police body cam. That video is now going viral on the internet. This particular incident is bizarre in that the shooter was apparently making sounds of a non-threatening and even accommodating nature in order to draw the animal closer before he pulled the trigger.

According to a story from the website of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that is entitled “Cleburne police reviewing officer’s shooting of dog”:

Cleburne police are reviewing an incident involving an officer fatally shooting a pit bull that appeared to be aggressive — an event that was captured on video.

On Aug. 10, police responded to a 911 call from a woman who said that she, along with an elderly woman and a baby, were trapped in their car by several pit bulls.

In a news release issued Friday, two months after the dog was shot, police spokeswoman Kelly Summey said, “The city is obviously concerned about the video showing an officer shooting a dog. As is often the case, the short video does not tell the whole story.”

Summey did not return phone calls late Friday afternoon.

Cleburne Mayor Scott Cain said that the video was “bad” and that an internal investigation is underway.

“Obviously, the video is very disturbing, and I am very upset about the video,” he said. “We want to hear the officer’s statement as well as statements from witnesses, but I can assure you that if action needs to be taken, that it will be swift.”

When asked why information was released in October when the shooting took place in August, Cain said, “That is something I would like to know.”

The Cleburne shooting comes on the heels of a recent incident involving Fort Worth Deputy Chief Kenneth Flynn, who faces animal cruelty charges after he shot and killed a German shepherd with his city-issued weapon after the dog killed his cat.

“The officer was using his body camera. The dog was wagging its tail, but we need to look at the dog’s body language,” Cain said.

The dead dog’s owner, like Mayor Cain has questioned that why if the animal was shot in August did an investigation not take place until mid-October? Dallas-Ft. Worth television station WFAA 8 interviewed Amanda Henderson who states  "I see him murdering my puppy, our family... our dog". The likely answer is that the release of the video online made the shooting impossible for the city to ignore any longer.

The cop’s account is that the animal was aggressive but if that were the case couldn’t mace or pepper spray have been used to subdue the animal? Why didn’t the police - with the call being placed specifically over the behavior of the dogs – call in animal control professionals to deal with the situation? In America there are any number of professions where dogs are encountered yet you rarely if ever hear of mailmen, meter readers, appliance repair personnel, leaflet distributors, delivery service employees or pizza carriers opening fire on an animal.

Maybe it’s the uniform and the accompanying allure of being a government enforcer that a percentage of sociopaths and power freaks are drawn to. Such individuals are able to slip through the screening processes and when they inevitably act out cities and counties have a public relations mess and litigation on their hands. Such incidents and worse happen with such frequency now that it is obvious that there is a systemic crisis underway.

The most disturbing aspect is the video itself, where the dog appeared to be lured by the offending cop with kissy sounds and then sent to the great beyond. If that is the case then it is a vile and sadistic act and should result in not only legal action against the City of Cleburne but also disciplinary action against the officer himself.

The phenomenon of cops busting a cap into a furry, four-legged animal is a sign of the times in these days of moral and social decline. This type of behavior coincides with the rise of the American police state after 9/11 and it won't be stopping anytime soon.

This stuff should just not happen in America and fittingly belongs in a banana republic somewhere.

Dog Owner Watches as Arkansas Cop Shoots Her Beloved Pet in the Head

A police officer in the sleepy burg of Alexander, Arkansas is responsible for the latest incident of “puppycide” after busting a cap into the head of a beloved family pet in front of it’s shocked owner.The dog, a large Mastiff-Shar Pei was mortally wounded by the jumpy cop and later had to be “put down” in an act of mercy as it was obvious that the dog would not recover. The new phenomenon that is the shooting of dogs by police is evidence of a very troubling state of law-enforcement in America. I mean for God’s sake, why do these guys continue to insist on summarily executing poor, unarmed animals who don’t have a chance? It seems to be an intimidation tactic and a power trip by uniformed government thugs hellbent on sending a message to the human owners not to fuck with them.

The shooting of the latest victim, which was named “Boo” is detailed in a story on the local website Arkansas matters entitled "Family Looking for Answers after Officer Shoots Dog":

A family is grieving tonight over the loss of their dog shot by an Alexander police officer on Thursday.

The officer says he felt threatened, but the dog's owners' say something else.

In a police report, issued by the Alexander Police Department, the officer describes a vicious dog that came at him.

But the pet's owners say that's just not true.

They call the Mastiff/Shar-Pei mix a sweet dog with a big bark, but no bite.

Linda Barton says she saw an Alexander police officer shoot her dog in the head.

Barton says police came to her home after she called about an issue involving her grandson.

She says the issue was never resolved and now Barton faces another one.

Her granddaughter Kailey Northern said, "She was just beside herself. She was just traumatized. 

She was just crying and screaming on the phone he shot my dog, he shot my dog."

Barton said the dog, named Boo, got away from her and circled the officer with his tail wagging.

She says he was being protective but never tried to hurt the officer.

But the police report states something different.

The officer says the dog ran aggressively towards him.

He says he couldn't get back in his car and as a last resort fired one shot at the dog to stop the threat.

But Boo was still alive.

Northern said, "It was inhumane how he went about the situation."

The family says the officer left the home, not offering to help the suffering dog.

After calling local vets, the pet owners realized he wouldn't survive and put Boo down.

The family would like to talk to the Alexander Police Department about their policies on aggressive dogs and perhaps making some changes so this doesn't happen again.

We did talk to the police chief briefly about this incident, he sent us a news release on the police report yesterday.

But today, we could not get a hold of him to answer questions on the department's aggressive dog policy and training.

Regarding the “department’s aggressive dog policy and training”, Alexander Police Chief Horace Walters has just implemented a policy to “shoot and kill” dogs if they are “threatening a person’s life”. While the policy specifically mentions “stray” dogs that has obviously been waived if you happen to be a member of the local Deputy Dawg police force.

Poor training and lax procedures are a given with many American police departments in 2014, one needs only to pay attention to the daily reports of “puppycides”, beatings, shootouts that end up with innocent bystanders dead and rampant harassment to see this trend. But more ominously it almost seems like police running amok has become standard operating procedure here in The Homeland.

Notable from the story on Arkansas Matters are a few of the comments which I found to be of  interest. For example one respondent who goes by the name of “Dan Canfield” asks:

Why is it that cops are the only ones who seem incapable of dealing with dogs without killing them? Somehow the mailmen, UPS drivers, etc, etc. manage to survive their daily encounters with dogs without killing them..

This is one heck of a good question too. Delivery drivers, process servers, census takers, mail carriers and even pizza delivery personnel manage to perform their duties despite the presence of dogs, often growling ones and have done so for years. But those jobs are not exactly the type of gigs that attract authoritarian types with an ax to grind and psychological/anger management issues. It just seems that the standards of what it takes to be a police officer have devolved over the years from “to protect and  serve” into “to bully and humiliate”.

This probably has as much to do with a culture that glorifies violence and the reverence of the police as seen in thousands of television shows and movies as the militarization of the country itself post 9/11. Particularly with the endless series of Middle Eastern wars that are ongoing and bipartisan. It is all extremely profitable and greatly benefits corporations and connected individuals within the military-police-surveillance industrial complex despite the mushrooming social costs of living in a country that becomes less free every day.

If you happen to be a dog owner give your pet an extra hug and bit of attention today and pray that the midnight knock doesn't come to your home.

Unarmed Dog Gunned Down in Cold Blood by Chicago Cops

With a fervor akin to that of legendary G-man Eliot Ness chasing down a member of the Al Capone mob, Chicago police gunned down a beloved family pet early Monday morning. The latest victim of the undeclared war on dogs by the nation's police  was a large Italian Mastiff who was blown away in it’s own backyard. There is now an actual term for the plague of family pets being summarily executed during police raids:“puppycide”. This sad but predictable evolution of the fascist police state has reached unprecedented levels in America and body count rises daily. The murdering of innocent dogs by police- often shot in front of their owners, including children - parallels the rise of the militarized police forces that belong in a banana republic and not a free country.

WGNTV of Chicago reports on their website in a story entitled “Chicago police shoot and kill family dog during chase”:

A south side family awoke to screaming and gunshots and found police in their yard and their family dog dead.

Terry Taylor says police told him they were chasing someone, and wound up in Taylor’s backyard at 59th and Martin Luther King Drive.

Officers opened the gate, covered with a Beware of Dog sign, then shot dead the 120 pound Italian Mastiff named Castro, who was outside at the time.

The dog’s owner is devastated. The family has had the dog since it was a pup and calls 9-year old Castro a member of the family.

The owners want the body of the dog removed and cremated at the city’s expense.

Police say the dog charged at them before they fired.

The investigation continues.

In another account, this one courtesy of a CBS Chicago station “Family Upset After Chicago Cops Fatally Shoot Dog, Fail To Catch Robber” the police involved are ducking the blame:

A South Side family is angry because police shot their dog and then failed to catch an armed robber even though he was hiding out just feet from where they were standing, reports CBS 2’s Mike Puccinelli.

“I said why’d you shoot the dog?,” said neighbor Aaron Thompson. “He said I didn’t shoot the dog, the assailant shot the dog.”

The dog is Castro, an Italian Mastiff who’d been in the Taylor household for ten years.

“It’s like I lost a family member…very difficult,” said Terry Taylor, the dog’s owner.

The assailant is an armed robber who had held up a man early this morning in Washington Park. Police responding to the 911 call spotted the suspect and chased him until they believed they lost him in the yard.

“The police ran in my yard, opened the gate and shot my dog,” Taylor said.

Maybe Obama Attorney General Eric Holder can fly in the Feds to perform an autopsy on the murder victim. The dog which had predominantly black fur, was unarmed and may have been attempting to surrender although as of this afternoon there have been no sightings of either Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson in the vicinity of the crime scene nor has Fox News been lining up exclusive interviews with "friends" of the shooter. 

Seriously though, it is becoming one hell of a sick society when a family watchdog, in it’s own yard and where the gate has an obvious ‘Beware of Dog” warning sign is not safe from overly aggressive police who have watched too many Dirty Harry movies. What the hell ever happened to the concept of private property in this country?

The puppycides will continue and the police officers who murdered Castro can proudly carve a notch into their pistol handles until Americans finally wake up and demand accountability from police.