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We have not had one of these in awhile, but it's still happening. link to story A Mississippi man who helped out a neighbor by alerting him to a suspicious lurker outside of his home ended up having his yellow Labrador retriever shot by a cop investigating the scene.What do you think?
The dog, Miller, was on a leash when a Cleveland, Miss. police investigator shot him, according to Tyler and Bethany Muzzi. The dog’s owners also said that the investigator initially claimed that the 1-year-old yellow lab tried to attack him and that he didn’t know he was leashed. But Cleveland’s police chief later admitted that the officer knew Miller was restrained but that he was still within his rights to shoot.What do you think?
Tyler Muzzi was getting ready to head into work shortly after 1 p.m. last Friday when he saw a suspicious man outside of his neighbor’s house. Muzzi called the neighbor, Bryant Steele, who then called police.What do you think?
Officers arrived quickly and began searching for the suspect. After catching and arresting the man, Muzzi went back into his house thinking everything had been settled.What do you think?
But things only got worse for the Muzzis and their beloved pet.What do you think?
“Tyler walked back inside and heard two gunshots,” Bethany Muzzi described on Facebook. “Thinking the [suspect] got away he went outside and all of the officers were standing around casually and said ‘hey man is that your dog?'”What do you think?
“Apparently the investigator had arrived and walked back to the backyard without asking the other officers whether or not there was a dog.”What do you think?
She said that as the investigator walked up, Miller ran over to him. Feeling threatened, the investigator shot Miller, Muzzi said.What do you think?
“Miller was in the backyard on a line the whole time and none of the other officers ever expressed a concern for him or Tyler could have put him in our pen,” she wrote.What do you think?
After Miller was shot, the officers stood around Miller as he whimpered, according to the Muzzis. Tyler Muzzi ran inside to get towels to wrap around the dog to take him to the vet. An hour after dropping Miller off, the vet called back saying that the bullets had severed his spine and that he would have to be put down.What do you think?
“We thought by having our year and a half old lab puppy in our backyard on a line, he was safe,” Bethany Muzzi wrote. “We just want justice for our baby!”What do you think?
“He said my dog tried to attack him on the line and was vicious,” Tyler Muzzi told The Clarion-Ledger. “I repeated over and over that I didn’t understand. He was attached to a line. He said he didn’t see the line when he saw Miller, he said Miller was rushing towards him.”What do you think?
But the investigator’s claim has been called into question, and by his own police chief. According to The Clarion-Ledger, Chief Charles Bingham admitted that the investigator was aware that Miller was on a line but that he was within his rights to defend himself. Bingham offered to pay vet bills and to buy a new dog for the Muzzi’s.What do you think?
“That was like a slap in the face,” Tyler Muzzi told The Clarion-Ledger.What do you think?
Bingham did not respond to The Daily Caller’s request for additional comment.What do you think?
The investigator who shot Miller was placed on administrative leave. The Muzzis say they are considering suing the police department. In the meantime, they’ve struggled to explain to their young daughter what happened to Miller.What do you think?
“We told her he was run over,” Bethany Muzzi wrote to friends Facebook. “We wanted to preserve her innocence in knowing that policemen are here to protect us. (Which we strongly believe!).”What do you think?
“We don’t know if lying to her was the right thing to do, but as a parent you want to protect your child and sometimes that means hiding evil in the world.”What do you think?
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i don't know what to think
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Being within his rights by some twisted reasoning is not the same as doing the right thing. Maybe he just wanted to join the club.
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I think that if nothing else it sounds like the cop should be fired for dishonesty. That'd be the cleanest way to get rid of him.
your flippant remarks which you so adeptly sling
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I think the less you have to do with cops,the better off you will be.
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I think the less you have to do with cops,the better off you will be. EVERYONE should take that to heart.
your flippant remarks which you so adeptly sling
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Without a video, it's hard to know, but what I "think" is that a lot of people believe black mouth cur mixes are "labs". Especially the kind that keep them on clothes lines.
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One of these days somebody is going to get the living chit beat out of them or worse for shooting a dog. Quite a rash of these "friendly fire" dog incidents lately. Trigger happy MF's
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Without a video, it's hard to know, but what I "think" is that a lot of people believe black mouth cur mixes are "labs". Especially the kind that keep them on clothes lines. If it's under control, restrained on a line, then who cares what breed it is? I hate pit bulls, but I wouldn't shoot one on a line in someone's backyard.
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The only thing worse than a liberal is a liberal that thinks they're a conservative.
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I'm always saddened when I see these stories. Knowing and understanding there always can be extenuating circumstances, I wonder where some of these cops grew up and were trained? It wasn't that long ago a cop shot a lab here in ID and the video was pretty clear. I think the lab might have licked him to death first if he hadn't shot him.
Ravenr2 is right. Someone's going to get in a schitt load of trouble when they lose their cool and stomp a mud hole in some cops azz....and in one of these wrongful cases, I'd be cheering him on.
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If there is a perp on the loose and tensions are high, and someone out of uniform enters a back yard unannounced and starts popping off rounds they should expect to catch some lead.
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You never here of a cop shooting a cat.
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You never here of a cop shooting a cat. You never hear of anyone COMPLAINING that a cop shot a cat.
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You never here of a cop shooting a cat. You never hear of anyone COMPLAINING that a cop shot a cat.
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