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Re:What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing by ourmandave on Thursday July 13, 2017 @07:35PM (#14766209)
I got bit a neighbor's dog when I was 5. I have very dim memories of it (because it's been a billion years) but he knocked me down and bit me on the back while a group of us were running away.

I got home crying and my dad took me back to confront the owner. According to my dad, we were standing in his yard and he had the dog on a leash. He tried to explain that his dog was friendly and let go of the leash. The first thing the dog did was come over and bite my wrist. (I do remember that part!)

Apparently 5-year-old me was bacon flavored or something.

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Re:What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing by girvo on Thursday July 13, 2017 @07:29PM (#14766182)
Most of the reports they discuss in the article are dogs being shot in private homes and yards, not public property
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Re:What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing by valuearb on Thursday July 13, 2017 @08:10PM (#14766431)
BTW: If you think this was an exception, you are dead wrong. It's very common for cops to kill a suspects dogs when serving an arrest warrant at their property. The victims often say their dog wasn't aggressive, the cops always say it was. This footage is a reminder that sometimes the cops lie.

But the bigger problem is the war on drugs. It gave us "no knock warrants". So cops bust down your front door without notice, and have murdered hundreds of innocent homeowners doing it at the wrong address or on a bogus warrant, when the homeowner reaches for a gun not knowing if it's a home invasion robbery or not.

How many dogs do you think they've killed doing no knock raids? Any dog that is there.

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Re:What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing by DrScump on Friday July 14, 2017 @03:30AM (#14768181) 

  murdered hundreds of innocent homeowners doing it at the wrong address or on a bogus warrant
Source?
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Re:What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing by valuearb on Friday July 14, 2017 @06:58PM (#14773875)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/18/us/forced-ent...
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Re:What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing by valuearb on Thursday July 13, 2017 @07:58PM (#14766354)
The cop lied about the dogs behavior. These dogs weren't aggressive.

Doesn't that seem to indicate to you that it's not the first time cops killed dogs that aren't dangerous and then lied about it?

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Re:What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing by pdonis on Thursday July 13, 2017 @07:58PM (#14766356)
> Did author manage to find one incident where the action appeared to be unjustified?

Um, how about the incident that was the focus of the article?

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Re:What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing by martalist on Thursday July 13, 2017 @08:24PM (#14766495)
> Dog owners: Do not bring your volatile, weaponized AI into public spaces.

Weaponized AI?

> How we arrive at the conclusion that the police are the problem is nonsense.

I think the last paragraph of the article is justified:

> If there are no consequences for filing police reports that do not reflect what actually happened, expect America’s police officers to keep filing them at the current rate.

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