[Warning: Graphic] Officer casually 'dispatches' small, non threatening blind poodle

[Bill]

https://x.com/Breaking911/status/179381964748302756

The little 13 pound dog is just casually meandering around, the officer tried repeatedly to hook him with a catch pole, but is unsuccessful, so he shoots the dog.

YouTube

[Big bob]

That didn't last long.

[Onebadcad]

Appears that link on X has been deleted.

Here is a link to story, has a video, but not the shooting.
Apology in advance for the shim / they / us / WTF on left of news desk.

https://www.komu.com/news/midmissour...ab4838892.html

[Aerovette]

Some just itch for a reason to fire their weapon. They are bored with range shooting.

[Big bob]

Who could have such hate in their heart for a little dog.......

[Bill]

From the conversation with the distraught owner,after the fact, it sounds like there was a whole search effort using the Facebook to locate the dog. I'm guessing the woman whose driveway the officer parked in saw the dog and called the police, thinking they'd catch the dog and return it. I don't know why she didn't simply contact the owner and get the owner out there. Blame goes to the woman who called the police vs. calling the owner.

Blame also goes to the dog's owner. No collar and tag? Of course, the dog could have had a collar and gotten it off, catching it on a branch or something. I always had an embroidered collar with the dog's name and my phone number on it, so anyone who encountered my dog if he got out, would be able to easily see a number to call. The tag had more info, my address and 2nd number.

[Bill]

Originally Posted by Onebadcad

Appears that link on X has been deleted.

Here is a link to story, has a video, but not the shooting.
Apology in advance for the shim / they / us / WTF on left of news desk.

https://www.komu.com/news/midmissour...ab4838892.html

How does a Missouri TV station have that weirdo as a broadcaster? Missouri? I'd expect to see it on a NY or CA station.

[vettemed]

Originally Posted by Bill

How does a Missouri TV station have that weirdo as a broadcaster? Missouri? I'd expect to see it on a NY or CA station.

Simple. Columbia is a college town, home of Mizzou.

From the KOMU website:

Students have always been a part of the KOMU 8 experience. The station went on the air as an experiment of sorts, the brainchild of journalism professor Edward C. Lambert. Students served as interns in the early years, but in 1970, that all changed. Students began to fill the roles of reporters, writers, producers, and photographers for all the station's newscasts. Those students have gone on to work at the network level, in every state, and around the world.

[Trapper Sean]

Originally Posted by Bill

How does a Missouri TV station have that weirdo as a broadcaster? Missouri? I'd expect to see it on a NY or CA station.

KOMU, Columbia, Missouri, college town, home of main campus of U of Missouri. College towns tend to act woke, like that's a smart thing to be.

[Torqaholic]

Good marksmanship is all about being casual. Unless you're lucky...

[BRUIZER]

That f'ing idiot has no business being around animals period. Probably not the gen public as well.
The tiny dog was ZERO threat to anyone. If it was attacking or acting aggressive towards someone's livestock ie foul or children perhaps.
But that was f'ing ridiculous.
What a pos!

[AUTOHOLIC]

This asshole should have his nuts nailed to a stump and kicked over backwards. What a piece of shit.

[Frankie the Fink]

Well when some panicky, unprofessional LEO with prior weapons issues can gun down a diminutive, unarmed woman climbing through a window in our nation's capitol - I guess, anything goes.

[jw38]

That ****ing asshole needs to go to prison...for a very long time. That poor dog posed absolutely NO threat to him or anyone else. That copmisca piece of shit and he has no business in law enforcement. He was also an asshole to the dog's owner.

Originally Posted by Frankie the Fink

Well when some panicky, unprofessional LEO with prior weapons issues can gun down a diminutive, unarmed woman climbing through a window in our nation's capitol - I guess, anything goes.

Absolutely true!

[theandies]

Originally Posted by Bill

How does a Missouri TV station have that weirdo as a broadcaster? Missouri? I'd expect to see it on a NY or CA station.

What the **** is that thing?

[Stevedore]

Another scumbag cop. Big surprise. How do assholes like that get hired into taxpayer-funded positions authorized to use a gun?

[Mick]

Originally Posted by BRUIZER

That f'ing idiot has no business being around animals period. Probably not the gen public as well.
The tiny dog was ZERO threat to anyone. If it was attacking or acting aggressive towards someone's livestock ie foul or children perhaps.
But that was f'ing ridiculous.
What a pos!

Did the officer have ANY training with that lasso? It looked to me like he had the loop around the dog's neck AT LEAST three times, and failed to tighten the loop to catch the dog. Looked like the loop was WAY too big the entire time as well. So after a couple of minutes, he gets frustrated with his own ability to catch the dog, and elects to shoot it instead. WTF?

[Torqaholic]

Originally Posted by Mick

Did the officer have ANY training with that lasso?

It's probably assumed nobody's stupid enough to need training with one of those.

[SurfnSun]

I wish people got as upset about abused children as they do animals…

[Vette40th]

Dont even want to watch it. I hope he has been sent home packing..