Brickbat: Sorry, I Was Aiming at Your Dog

Tina Hight has sued the Columbia County, Arkansas, sheriff's office, Sheriff Mike Loe and Deputy Brian Williams after Williams shot her while trying to hit her Pomeranian dog.
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A Pomeranian once bit my sister ...
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the Pomeranian
with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given
her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and
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Nordfink".
Mynd you, Pomeranian bites Kan be pretty nasti...
I'm prone to posting snark. More than one reader of limited reading comprehension has on occasion failed to realize what they were reading and taken me to task for advocating that which I was in fact mocking.
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Only black dude on the force. Won't get fired. https://www.columbiacountysheriffar.org/deputies
Seriously, I'm pretty sure I could punt a Pomeranian across the street.
If you lie and expect people to believe a gun shot wound was caused by dog scratch rather than the ammo fired from your gun, you shouldn't be a cop.
But it's an assault pomeranian. It even as the little thing that goes up.
No one needs a hi-capacity assault yap dog! We only want commonsense dog control!
FTA: 7OYS requested the deputy's personnel file in search of reprimand or suspension documents but none exist. Later, we confirmed with the Columbia County Sheriff's Department that the deputy was not reprimanded as it relates to this incident.
Why would he be? The dog was a threat to officer safety, and neither the dog nor its owner complied with the officer's commands. Everything after that was justified.
Great use of snark, sir.
It also doesn't help when the bullet is still present at the site of the wound.
If your name is Brian Wlliams, you're going to fib a little.
always under fire, those Brians
Lol.
I can understand why he'd be afraid of dogs. It's because he's a complete pussy.
I thought it was because bitches be after him.
He's a waste of oxygen.
Gotta watch out for those killer fucking Pomeranians...
Is anyone surprised a "trained" police officer is incapable of hitting such a LARGE target as a Pomeranian?
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Anyone that argued yesterday that it was safe for a cop shoot a charging man with a baby just a few feet behind him care to comment on police safety and training in this case?
Killing the baby is just a late term abortion and so perfectly fine. Also your question would make more sense if the guy from yesterday was aiming at the feral baby and hit the mostly peaceful charging man. Not a safe shot to take but try for a tiny bit of honesty in your argument.
I reject your self righteous judgement of dishonesty in my argument.
Comparing a cop that took a dangerous shot, missed and hit a person to a cop that took a dangerous shot but didn't miss and didn't hit a person is honest. In both cases my point is that the police should be prioritizing protecting the public over protecting themselves.
To reject the comparison because they are not exactly the same situation seems like the logic that got us our qualified immunity situation.
????
So, to be clear, are you defending the cop who shot the woman while intending to shoot the dog or attacking the other cop who shot her target, the alleged criminal, and nothing else?
Also, again for clarity, are you considering the woman who answered the door above or the Pomeranian to be the presumptive/alleged abuser?
To reject the comparison because they are not exactly the same situation seems like the logic that got us our qualified immunity situation.
Wet roads cause
rainraindrops, case-by-case examinations cause broad declarations of immunity.So, to be clear, are you defending the cop who shot the woman while intending to shoot the dog or attacking the other cop who shot her target, the alleged criminal, and nothing else?
I am "attacking" both cops. Neither should have taken the risk of harming citizens in their line of fire.
Also, again for clarity, are you considering the woman who answered the door above or the Pomeranian to be the presumptive/alleged abuser?
That's irrelevant. Were discussing split second decisions of taking risky and dangerous shots at the public. If the pomeranian were a grizzly bear, the cop still should not be shooting in the direction of citizens.
In your defense, your best and safest bet is to go with Rule No. 1 about Reason Police Brutality stories.
As insane as it sounds, given Reason's history, I give it a 30/70 (in Reason's favor) that the reason the Pomeranian freaked the cop out is because it had her husband/boyfriend/roommate's eye in its mouth and both of them were steeped in his blood.
lol
When it comes to cops shooting dogs, I'm going to go with the notion that a non-trivial number of cops are (a) complete pussies who are terrified of dogs, any dogs and/or (b) trigger-happy fucks who enjoy getting a chance to kill something, anything, and a dog is better than nothing.
Reason being Reason, you may have a point, but in the cops vs dogs case, I'm fully inclined to assume the very worst of the cop(s) involved. My reaction is essentially the opposite inclination where Shika and Fiona are going to orgasm over some illegal alien, no matter what has been done.
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Milei calls himself a libertarian, while his supporters wave the yellow-and-black Gadsden flag of the US Right. He has consistently held extremely liberal positions on drugs, prostitution, immigration, firearms, and gay marriage. It sounds like an Internet ideology, cooked up on message boards — an impression underlined by his defence of a market for human organs. Lately, though, he has moved closer to other figures of the new Latin American Right, such as Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro or Chile’s José Antonio Kast, railing against “Cultural Marxism” and gender ideology.
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They often do, but no, they had that one a few days ago:
https://reason.com/2023/08/14/a-self-described-anarcho-capitalist-won-a-plurality-in-argentinas-presidential-primary/
My friends that I went camping with this summer have 3 poms. They're an absolute terror (to the squirrels and chipmunks around camp).
The headline makes no sense. Cops never say sorry.
Pomeranians are annoying little shit-dogs* but if you're freaked out by the sight of one enough to pull your gun and start panic firing, you're too big a pussy to be a cop. Or anything else that requires you to get out of bed.
* "Any dog under 50 pounds is a cat and cats are pointless" - Ron Swanson
QI because there's no similar case in that circuit where the dog was a Pomeranian.
Where the dog was a Pomeranian of the same gender, weight, fur length, and name.
alright! I got to the end of one of these w/o the dog dying. gracias
Deputy Williams should be sent out on every dog-related call. Sure, there'd be a lot of dead owners, but that's the price we must pay for a civilized society.
You're suggesting we put him on Paw Patrol?
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It's a Pomeranian not a Cane Corso, just kick the little doggie and it will never come near you again. It's not like a Pomeranian can go for you throat.
"Does your dog bite??"