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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Wed Sep 2, 2015, 12:34 AM Sep 2015

Georgia police shoot man and kill his dog after responding to wrong house

Police officers who arrived at the wrong metro Atlanta home after a report of suspicious activity shot the man who lives there, killed his dog and “likely” shot a fellow officer, leaving him seriously wounded, authorities said Tuesday.

Three officers found a home they thought matched a description provided by a 911 caller ...
They entered the home through an unlocked rear door and two officers fired their guns at a dog, killing it.

Christopher McKinley and his wife were in the house watching television when they heard something in the backyard.
“The husband gets up to check, opens the door and he gets hit and his dog is dead.”

DeKalb County police chief Cedric Alexander acknowledged that DeKalb officers responded to the wrong home.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/01/georgia-police-shoot-man-kill-dog-wrong-house

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Georgia police shoot man and kill his dog after responding to wrong house (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Sep 2015 OP
I read this in my local paper. A BIG part of the problem was the 911 dispatcher. napi21 Sep 2015 #1
One minute you're sitting there half asleep watching TV. lpbk2713 Sep 2015 #2
That attitude is giving the policiemens a sad. A HERETIC I AM Sep 2015 #3

napi21

(45,806 posts)
1. I read this in my local paper. A BIG part of the problem was the 911 dispatcher.
Wed Sep 2, 2015, 12:47 AM
Sep 2015

The info he gave the police was "A grey brick house and a street name" NO HOUSE #!!!! The last line in the article I read was that the chief in DeKalb Cty. didn't know exactly what happened but was performing a thorough investigation. I'd be suing the AHs if they shot MY DOG!

lpbk2713

(42,753 posts)
2. One minute you're sitting there half asleep watching TV.
Wed Sep 2, 2015, 12:53 AM
Sep 2015



Next minute your world turns to shit.

We need someone to protect us from the people who are supposed to protect us.

A HERETIC I AM

(24,365 posts)
3. That attitude is giving the policiemens a sad.
Wed Sep 2, 2015, 03:36 AM
Sep 2015

(Currently the second story)
https://www.facebook.com/BostonPoliceDepartment?fref=ts


Or the Milwaukee Sheriff who is all over the net now who said the BLM movement is "Vile" and "Slimy"

Or how about this asshole who is apparently a former corrections official from Texas who thinks he is somebody's somebody;

https://www.facebook.com/hebrewawake/videos/1629184947337178/




Same goes for truck drivers. As one, I look DOWN the list of most dangerous occupations 4 positions before "Law Enforcement Officer" shows up.

They want things to go back to the way they were a few years ago, before they started getting regularly recorded protecting and serving the ever living shit out of people.

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