Officer killed after pointing taser at man's dogs...

[347Mike]

Lol

[roliath]

Wow. Catch up on your case law you moron. A responding officer to a call for service on a disturbance has the legal right to be on said property. The officer has a duty to protect people/property/animals which is why he deployed the tazer on the dogs. To keep them from killing each other.

The home owner is completely in the wrong here.

Is the article even clear that the call was on hitco's (shooter) house? It says,

The officer had been responding to a report of a disturbance and ended up at the back of Hitcho's house, authorities said.

maybe i'm reading it wrong?

[Jewrrick]

Another case of incompetence of the general public, so sad this officer lost his life because of idiots that don't understand laws but pretend anyways.

[Denny]

Why should a cop be allowed on your property, without warrant, and be allows to drop your animals? There has to be some control. It's sa to me that people have to do this.

I've never seen a dog killed by taser. Very rare situations, usually involving pre-existing conditions have resulted in death.

[Armedtrigger01]

It's hard to form an opinion on this as there is not enough info. The most clear is that the officer was told to leave he was not witnessing a crime had no warrant and was on private property. The officer should have seen the situation escalating backed off and called for back up I am sure he had a patrol car to sit in off the property to wait on said back up and not been making the situation worse by remaining there with I'm sure a noticeable unstable and irritated property owner. I also fault his superior he orders his officer to shoot the guys dogs with a taser but does not watch his back I really doubt the guy had the shootgun in his hands the
Whole time and he definatly didn't pull it out of his pants so why was his back up not backing him up that's not cool the whole reason he called
Him was so wouldn't get shot
And the
Chief let it happen. It is sad an officer lost his life but there were several things that went wrong that could have prevented it and hopefully city's look at this and add training on the law and procedures so that no other officer gets killed like this. I could think of no better way to honor him then saving someone else from things that are learned from this incedent.

[Denny]

BTW, a call about a domestic disturbance warrant's the officer's presence to investigate everyone's safety.

[Ruffdaddy]

I've never seen a dog killed by taser. Very rare situations, usually involving pre-existing conditions have resulted in death.

Totally missed the stun and tazer part. Homeowner is nuts. Unless the officer really was threatening with a gun as claimed.

I stand corrected, and looking stupid.

[SSMAN]

Why should a cop be allowed on your property, without warrant, and be allows to drop your animals? There has to be some control. It's sa to me that people have to do this.

If a criminal runs onto someones property, the police have full authority to intervene on said property. This case is no different.

human life > dog life

[Denny]

It's hard to form an opinion on this as there is not enough info. The most clear is that the officer was told to leave he was not witnessing a crime had no warrant and was on private property. The officer should have seen the situation escalating backed off and called for back up I am sure he had a patrol car to sit in off the property to wait on said back up and not been making the situation worse by remaining there with I'm sure a noticeable unstable and irritated property owner. I also fault his superior he orders his officer to shoot the guys dogs with a taser but does not watch his back I really doubt the guy had the shootgun in his hands the
Whole time and he definatly didn't pull it out of his pants so why was his back up not backing him up that's not cool the whole reason he called
Him was so wouldn't get shot
And the
Chief let it happen. It is sad an officer lost his life but there were several things that went wrong that could have prevented it and hopefully city's look at this and add training on the law and procedures so that no other officer gets killed like this. I could think of no better way to honor him then saving someone else from things that are learned from this incedent.

I take it you didn't read the story... that's OK. I'll give you a few minutes.

[347Mike]

I think there is a lot of information missing here. Regardless, I don't see how a cop on your property (yard) pointing a taser or not justifies someone losing their life....

I highly doubt the cop just randomly walked up and started threatening dogs. He was in the yard for christs sake, not busting through his front door holding his family at gun point...

[Ruffdaddy]

Glad to know an officer can just come onto my property and do whatever he wants if he gets a disturbance complaint. Same thing as probable cause...he'll just make up some bs safety excuse.

[Denny]

Glad to know an officer can just come onto my property and do whatever he wants if he gets a disturbance complaint. Same thing as probable cause...he'll just make up some bs safety excuse.

He was dispatched there. That means someone called for assistance. It is his duty.

Whether you like it or not, he is justified to be there under the law and rightfully so, thank goodness.

[roliath]

He was dispatched there. That means someone called for assistance. It is his duty.

Whether you like it or not, he is justified to be there under the law and rightfully so, thank goodness.

Are you sure he was dispatched there though? I didn't see anywhere where it states specifically a call on his house. I'm just trying to fill the blanks but it isn't very clear.

I'm not trying to protect the homeowner here, i'm just curious how they ended up at his house and what were the dogs doing for his chief to give the order to shoot them.

[The King]

Totally missed the stun and tazer part. Homeowner is nuts. Unless the officer really was threatening with a gun as claimed.

I stand corrected, and looking stupid.

An officer doesn't "threaten" anyone with a gun, rather he/she will only resort to that level of force if they believe they will need to use it.

[BradM]

He was dispatched there. That means someone called for assistance. It is his duty.

Whether you like it or not, he is justified to be there under the law and rightfully so, thank goodness.

He's a cop hater plain and simple. You will never change his mind.