There's a story out of Tennessee where state police stopped a North Carolina family on the suspicion they had been involved in a robbery, then shot their dog:
http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/03/01/27473390.shtml
There's even video at that site of the entire incident from the trooper's dashcam.
Reaction to the story has not been favorable to the police. In fact, the troopers are getting raked over the coals on one of the media websites. "If you're going to be afraid of a dog that's wagging his tail like that, you don't need to be a police officer," one message quotes. (You don't have to be registered to participate in the conversation over there, so please feel free to join that discussion.)
I'm curious about how folks on this board react to this story. Was the shooting reasonable?
It turns out there actually was no robbery at all. The driver had left his wallet sitting on top of his car at their last fuel stop. When it fell off, cash flew out of it and spread across the road. An anonymous caller who saw it dialed police from a cellphone and reported a suspicious vehicle with money flying out of the windows.
Even though no robberies had been reported, the car was still stopped on a suspicion of being involved in a robbery. Is this normal procedure?
Opinions?
http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/03/01/27473390.shtml
There's even video at that site of the entire incident from the trooper's dashcam.
Reaction to the story has not been favorable to the police. In fact, the troopers are getting raked over the coals on one of the media websites. "If you're going to be afraid of a dog that's wagging his tail like that, you don't need to be a police officer," one message quotes. (You don't have to be registered to participate in the conversation over there, so please feel free to join that discussion.)
I'm curious about how folks on this board react to this story. Was the shooting reasonable?
It turns out there actually was no robbery at all. The driver had left his wallet sitting on top of his car at their last fuel stop. When it fell off, cash flew out of it and spread across the road. An anonymous caller who saw it dialed police from a cellphone and reported a suspicious vehicle with money flying out of the windows.
Even though no robberies had been reported, the car was still stopped on a suspicion of being involved in a robbery. Is this normal procedure?
Opinions?
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