Disabled Man Sues Police for Tasering and Shooting His Therapy Dog to Death

[marmar]

(AlterNet) The disabled owner of a dog shot to death by Colorado police officers is now suing law enforcement officials. Courthouse News Service reports that Gary Branson is suing the Commerce City police for tasering the therapy dog and then shooting it to death.

The whole entire incident was caught on video.

On November 24, 2012, a neighbor of Branson’s in Commerce City called the police about the dog Chloe, who was allegedly on the loose. While the police said it was a pitbull, the owner says the dog is not that breed. According to the ABC affiliate in Denver, the police said they spent 20 minutes trying to gain control of the dog. They claimed Chloe acted aggressively towards them when the cops approached the dog.

But the owner, Branson, disputes that story. His lawsuit claims that the four-year-old dog was “a captured, wounded, defenseless dog that had not ever attacked anyone, had not bitten anyone, and never moved aggressively toward the officer.” The dog was hit by a taser, but then got back up. After that, the police tasered her again. But after an animal control officer named Arica Bores was capturing Chloe, Officer Robert Price shot the dog and killed Chloe. The whole incident was caught on tape by a 12-year-old neighbor. The video sparked outrage in the neighborhood. .........................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/colorado-man-sues-police-over-killing-his-therapy-dog

[shenmue]

1. Mercy

[gopiscrap]

2. fucking asshole cops

[FreakinDJ]

3. They couldn't stoop lower if they tried

[frylock]

4. fuck tha police

[cui bono]

5. Theh first guest on Real Time with Bill Maher spoke about police brutality.

It was a really good point he made. He said that they are told that they could die at any moment, any one of the people out there could be some asshole that kills them, so they look at the public as the enemy instead of people they are supposed to protect and serve. He said that some cop who worked in an affluent city that was voted safest neighborhood a couple times said it was worse than being in Afghanistan. I mean really. There was one murder there in a year.

These guys are out of control and the entire training system needs to change. Of course the entire mindset of all the police forces needs to change.

[Tumbulu]

6. It does need to change, but until

there is some sort of control over firearms, I remain unsurprised. Seriously, how is it possible for them not to be freaked out?

[cui bono]

12. Well they also talked about how being a police officer is not the most dangerous job.

Taxi driver is ranked as more dangerous, I don't know where he got that info though.

[Initech]

7. What. the. fuck!!!!

[KentuckyWoman]

8. therapy dog or service dog?

I keep reading about people buying fake credentials for the family pet and demanding the same treatment as service dogs.

It would never take 20 min to chase down a service dog. Once he wins the lawsuit he should think about a real service dog. The training level is worth the price tag.

[Rex]

9. Incident? Okay I guess you can call it that.

Cops. Yay.

[libdem4life]

10. I want a new phrase for this: Sentient Being Murder. Abuse is beating someone up. My pet peeve..

pun unintentional but stands..."collateral damage" ... collateral meaning "property or chattel" ... damage meaning "oops" but realistically referring to our official and governmental relationship to the murder of humans that are generally non-white, we don't understand their language, their culture, their religion, can barely find them on a map, but we want rights to their minerals...and land...and sovereignty and a freaking military base to maintain our profits and the superiority to remind them they are not rich or smart or macho enough to kick us out.

Police=Military=US Global Empire. We are not exceptional...we are the newest incarnation of the Millennial White Western European Colonials Redux of which there is a long and shameful history.

In manufactured and craven fear, turned self-defense, these "public servants" kill people's dogs ... just because they can.

[glinda]

11. Police are totally out of control. End of story.