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A Montville Township, Ohio, police dog died of injuries consistent with heat stroke after its handler left it inside his cruiser for more than four hours. The department suspended Sgt. Brett Harrison for two weeks without pay and stripped him of 40 vacation hours.

Comments

[UnCivilServant]

How about we take the K9 units away from the police and give the dogs to people who've had their pets shot by cops?

I mean, since the dogs' main function is to please their handler and crap out 'probable cause' on command, the PD doesn't need them anyway.

[Swiss Servator, Grundgesetz!]

So, he got more punishment than if he had killed an innocent human...

[db]

He was punished for not properly following procedures. That's all this is ever about. The proper procedure for "civilians" is OBEY.

[Jerryskids]

The cop should be punished by having to wear a leash and sniff around cars, "alerting" upon command by his handler just like the old warrant-on-a-leash used to do.

[Swiss Servator, Grundgesetz!]

"warrant-on-a-leash"

Stolen.

[Swiss Servator, Grundgesetz!]

Oh, and *applause*

[Ted S.]

You've stopped narrowing your gaze?

[PM]

His training should have told him to shoot the dog to put it out of its misery before it reached that point.

The department suspended Sgt. Brett Harrison for two weeks without pay and stripped him of 40 vacation hours.

Sounds like the same consequences a "civilian" would face. They totally wouldn't charge you or me for animal cruelty under the same circumstances...

[WTF]

No they wouldn't, since a police dog is considered a police officer, a regular citizen would be charged with murder, or at least negligent homicide.

[Gene]

This.

[Curt]

Actually, a regular person would be charged with more than that. Only charging them with murder/homicide implies that a cop's life is only worth as much as a normal person's. I'm sure this jurisdiction has additional penalties associated with killing a cop.

[SusanM]

There's a picture on Facebook of the dog as a puppy giving what is clearly a gang sign with his paw. The dog was just asking for it.

[Swiss Servator, Grundgesetz!]

It took an extra biscuit too, thief-thug!!!!

[Rufus J. Firefly]

"The department suspended Sgt. Brett Harrison for two weeks without pay and stripped him of 40 vacation hours."

If only this would be the punishment for regular citizens.

[Ted S.]

The union is going to get those vacation hours reinstated.

[Ted S.]

The alt-text should read, "Killed by cop".

[Old Man With Candy]

Interesting that they kill their own dogs, too.

[Robert]

Not the 1st example we've read of here lately. Cops seem to have so many ways to kill dogs.

[Rev-Match]

The department suspended Sgt. Brett Harrison for two weeks without pay and stripped him of 40 vacation hours.

Sure. He killed a police dog. That makes him a COP KILLER. (or something)

[jmomls]

Are they gonna have a big funeral march with bagpipes and stuff for this fallen K9 officer?

[Neil B]

Stripped him of vacation hours?