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Re:My dog was killed on a walk with a walker ordered through... by Judgmentality on Friday January 18, 2019 @12:40AM (#18937264)

So I did some googling and like most things, "it's complicated."

It varies by state, but killing a police dog can put you in jail for 10 years (and this has happened) and that is a federal law. There are some states pursuing stricter measures themselves where killing a canine officer is equivalent to killing a human officer.

As to what I said about killing a police dog having a harsher punishment, that was based on a single anecdote and I meant that the judges serve harsher punishments, not that the laws themselves are stricter.

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900010289/senate-approve...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=96229&page=1

https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/man-who-killed-pittsburgh-po...

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Re:My dog was killed on a walk with a walker ordered through... by masonic on Friday January 18, 2019 @01:18AM (#18937401)

  and that is a federal law.

There is no such Federal law, as Federal law has no nexus in a local police encounter (unless there is a civil rights element).

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Re:My dog was killed on a walk with a walker ordered through... by ddingus on Friday January 18, 2019 @01:27AM (#18937430)

Or one encounters federal police. DHS is out there and on patrol now.

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Re:My dog was killed on a walk with a walker ordered through... by masonic on Friday January 18, 2019 @01:39AM (#18937467)

There is no such Federal law. Animal cruelty to a dog owned by a Federal agency would be a state statute.

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Re:My dog was killed on a walk with a walker ordered through... by Fezzik on Friday January 18, 2019 @02:12AM (#18937574)

Exactly. The only Federal Law re animals is the Animal Welfare act, which only has to do with research animals. All 50 states have animal cruelty laws.

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Re:My dog was killed on a walk with a walker ordered through... by pdkl95 on Friday January 18, 2019 @02:41AM (#18937664)

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1368

18 U.S. Code § 1368 - Harming animals used in law enforcement

(a) Whoever willfully and maliciously harms any police animal, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be fined under this title and imprisoned not more than 1 year. If the offense permanently disables or disfigures the animal, or causes serious bodily injury to or the death of the animal, the maximum term of imprisonment shall be 10 years.

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Re:My dog was killed on a walk with a walker ordered through... by Fezzik on Friday January 18, 2019 @03:08AM (#18937756)

I love learning from my mistakes! I misread the preamble (for lack of a better word) to the Animal Welfare Act’s Federal website. It says it is the only Federal Law addressing animals... or the research of: https://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/animal-welfare-act

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Re:My dog was killed on a walk with a walker ordered through... by takeda on Friday January 18, 2019 @01:02AM (#18937348)

> It varies by state, but killing a police dog can put you in jail for 10 years (and this has happened) and that is a federal law. There are some states pursuing stricter measures themselves where killing a canine officer is equivalent to killing a human officer.

Killing another person can get you life in prison or capital punishment (depending on state) that's way worse than 10 years.

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Re:My dog was killed on a walk with a walker ordered through... by unethical_ban on Friday January 18, 2019 @03:53AM (#18937973)

There IS a law for 10 years. There ARE some states that make it like killing a human officer. The MAX for killing a person is death penalty.

See where your argument loses some teeth?

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